Mon, 12 Feb 2007
We've All Got Stories
Over the holidays I was bored and signed up for Yahoo! Personals. I wrote my normal, clever, funny profile, uploaded some pics and waited. --Keep in mind, this is the free version- I was just trying out their site. I've tried out Match and JDate and didn't have much luck.
When you're searching around for profiles, you have a lot of options. You also have a few options on how your results are displayed. By default the listing is "New to Yahoo". I assume this is so you can hit on the "fresh meat". I like to sort by "Overall Fit". This lists what the system thinks is most likely to be a match. It's usually just a basic keyword match-- oh, they both like wine +1, they both are within each other's "distance" settings, or zipcode +2, etc. It's kind of obvious how Yahoo's works, because as I'm browsing I realized, it must have picked up on the fact that I had an attribute of "I speak Spanish" set in my profile because some of the "fits" were girls who were looking for guys who "and/or" spoke Spanish eg. hispanic/latina girls and/or "berkeley" hippies who lived in Guatemala for a semester. --my profile is vague enough, but you get the drift, I like to travel, I speak spanish, like to cook, like wine, etc. so that fits in with 99% of the women here. As an aside (yes, I'm already making this story too long)- what's up with Asian girls liking Jewboys? Are we a fetish for y'all? (not that I mind). So, I'm perusing my "best fits" and up comes a partial headline:Latina - Outgoing and Pr (you have to click the headline to read the full profile on the site)
Latina - Outgoing and Proud Transgendered Cuban. Hrm. Yahoo, I'm not sure that counts as a "best fit". Yahoo's actually picked two more trannies for me in my "best fits".
We've all got tranny stories this week. Angie posted hers today, and it reminded me to post mine.
Post your own tranny story in the comments.
The whole time I was writing this I kept thinking of Seinfeld - "not that there's anything wrong with that".
12 Feb 20:16 | /humor | 4 comment(s)
angie wrote:
oh! i missed the fact that it found two more in the audible storytelling the other day. nice! maybe there is something yahoo knows about you that even you haven't figured out about yourself. damn clever yahoo!
02/12/2007 21:14:37
Patrick wrote:
Maybe Yahoo is trying to tell you something
Sometimes it takes a good friend to give us a kick in the pants telling us to look at something a little different. Maybe Yahoo is trying to tell you something...
02/13/2007 09:44:17
YaWhore! wrote:
We are trying to tell you something Kenny!
02/13/2007 15:13:18
marc say's.... wrote:
All you need now is a ladyboy
02/13/2007 17:31:17
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