Tutorial

I'm spending some time reviewing EH matches, while also trying to keep up on the CC matches.

You may not know this, but EH will randomly email you tips for how to be successful in dating. Things like, "The 5 Dos and Don'ts of Commitment." Or, "9 Signs You've Met the One."

However, I have a few tips of my own for online dating profiles and pictures. Listen closely, I'm only going to say this once:

1. If you have taken the time and money to sign up for an online dating service, take it seriously. Spend some time formulating thoughtful answers - or at least more than three words for the short answer questions.

2. Spell check your answers. I understand that not everyone spells well, some of my best friends are bad spellers; however, there are certain things that are unacceptable. Plus, you are on the internet - google that shit.

3. Pictures. I don't care what anyone tells you, do not post pictures of your "favorite things." I honestly had to close a match because he had pictures of just his cats. Come on people, get serious. Additionally, if there is a picture that you have to take by standing in the mirror and taking a photo of your reflection, it is probably because you shouldn't have that picture taken. The reason you won't ask one of your friends to take the picture is because you are embarrassed - think about why that is the case. Or else you don't have friends, and that is just sad.

Wading Through the Possibilities

Time for a quick update:

CC: I'm getting the hang of it. It turns out you have to rate all of your matches before they will give you new ones, so things were moving a little slow there for a while. Doing a little communicating with a few fellows, nothing worth mentioning yet.

NachoGuy is still out there, but I have decided that he needs to take a little initiative in the communication department.

And today, a guy with a full-sleeve tattoo was interested in me. Yeah, not so much.

EH: I have been working on going through my matches and eliminating and communicating as appropriate. In the beginning stages of communication with a few guys.

Turns out I attract some specific things based on my personality profile:

1. Really tall guys! I am not that tall, and I don't think there are that many really tall people in the world, but holy cow, the number of men I have been matched with that list their height as over 6'3 is amazing. On some level, I realize they could be lying, but once you hit 6'2 what reason do you have to lie? If you list your height as 5'8, on the other hand, I'm going to go ahead and assume you are 5'6 with shoes on.

2. Guys who love hockey. Which is pretty hilarious because I am not much of a hockey fan.

Here We Go

It is a slow day at work so I figured I would kill a little time playing with my dating sites.

I will admit that I have not done a good job of checking out my matches and communiciating/eliminating as I see fit. I've just been busy and it is a little overwhelming.

First things first, I am starting to figure out this CC thing. The communication is a little weird, but similar to EH. I may or may not be agreeing to communicate with someone who doesn't really interest me sheerly for your entertainment. Does this make me a bad person?

To be fair, I had to figure out how the whole communication process worked on CC and this guy "was interested in me," so I thought, what the heck? And when asked "One thing you eat, but know you shouldn't is..." He answered, "Nachos. I definitely have a problem with this." That made me laugh.

We'll see where it goes.

In EH news, apparently USAF didn't like my short answer questions because he decided to close our match. It made me laugh. Were you really so afraid to answer the questions I asked (which weren't all that crazy) that you decided to end communication altogether? Hilarious!

Also, I received an icebreaker today from a guy on EH - I can't even give him a name yet, but I'm totally intrigued by him. He states in his profile that he hasn't paid to join yet, and then creates a code in which you can find his email address and contact him if you are interested. The intrigue may just make me send him an email.

This is kind of fun.

The First Post

To begin with, you should know that there are some significant differences between eHarmony (EH) and Chemistry.com (CC). Mainly with the communication processes. I have figured out the EH system pretty well, but I'm still trying to navigate this CC system.

I may start communicating with someone inadvertently because I don't know what I'm doing. But that may make for some good stories, so what the heck?

At present I am communicating with one guy on EH - we'll call him USAF - bet you can't figure out what he does for a living. We are in the second set of questions, which are the long answer questions. And 93 matches in my inbox.

On CC there is one guy "interested in me," one guy "noticed me," one guy I will "decide on later," and five matches in my inbox.

Looks like it is time to get serious about weeding through these gentlemen.

Stay tuned, friends, this could get interesting.