Has anyone else noticed?
Ok - so it's no little secret, I've dabbled in some, ahem, online dating. I've tried almost all of the major sites (not necessarily all at once). Sure, each is different in its own way. I've noticed, ahem, some overlap of 'clientelle'.
Of course I am guilty of this as well. But it's kind of of funny. One might think he or she is opening him or herself up to some new people by joining an additional site. And this might be true, to an extent. I'm curious the amount of 'unique users' each site has.
The funniest thing, however, is I personally have experienced several moments of 'deja vu'. Or maybe 'deja viewed your profile'. What amuses me the most (and I'm guilty of this as well), is that on every site, the people have the same user names and pictures. When I was telling a friend about this, he commented that, well, it makes sense - it's the same single & looking people in the same city - it wouldn't really make sense if it was a completely different set of individuals.
I also remember once there was a guy I started talking to on one network. I realized quickly that I just wasn't going to hit it off with him. This may have been bad form on my part, but I just stopped responding (we hadn't even spoken on the phone or met in person). He then messaged me on ANOTHER network, calling me out that I'd stopped responding on the first network, but he still wanted to keep talking to me. I was weirded out and, needless to say, did not respond once again.
Do my fellow online daters have the same experience of dealing with the same people on every network? Is there a point of being on multiple sites at once? Does anyone else feel some 'people' are following them as aggressively as zappos remarketing? (Sorry, lame search joke.) Your thoughts?
Ok - so it's no little secret, I've dabbled in some, ahem, online dating. I've tried almost all of the major sites (not necessarily all at once). Sure, each is different in its own way. I've noticed, ahem, some overlap of 'clientelle'.
Of course I am guilty of this as well. But it's kind of of funny. One might think he or she is opening him or herself up to some new people by joining an additional site. And this might be true, to an extent. I'm curious the amount of 'unique users' each site has.
The funniest thing, however, is I personally have experienced several moments of 'deja vu'. Or maybe 'deja viewed your profile'. What amuses me the most (and I'm guilty of this as well), is that on every site, the people have the same user names and pictures. When I was telling a friend about this, he commented that, well, it makes sense - it's the same single & looking people in the same city - it wouldn't really make sense if it was a completely different set of individuals.
I also remember once there was a guy I started talking to on one network. I realized quickly that I just wasn't going to hit it off with him. This may have been bad form on my part, but I just stopped responding (we hadn't even spoken on the phone or met in person). He then messaged me on ANOTHER network, calling me out that I'd stopped responding on the first network, but he still wanted to keep talking to me. I was weirded out and, needless to say, did not respond once again.
Do my fellow online daters have the same experience of dealing with the same people on every network? Is there a point of being on multiple sites at once? Does anyone else feel some 'people' are following them as aggressively as zappos remarketing? (Sorry, lame search joke.) Your thoughts?
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