My opinion: "Who's Viewed You" On Yahoo

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Registered: 07-21-2004
My opinion: "Who's Viewed You" On Yahoo
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Thu, 11-09-2006 - 10:01am

I really don't like the "Who's Viewed You" feature Yahoo has now.

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Registered: 04-09-2008
Yeah, I haven't quite figured out the purpose of the "Who's Viewed You". Why would I want to see who has looked at me but passed me over? It's also more of a turn off to see the same guy look at me several times a week. Also, if I am dating a guy, then I may want to see his profile without him thinking I'm stalking him. It's all just too much trouble. Right now I have my viewing set to "hidden". Maybe a couple times in the past I looked at someone but didn't wink b/c i thought he was too good looking or too good to be true. Then he suddenly emailed me b/c he saw I looked at him. Still I don't think that feature is worth anything...but a hassle. I guess there are a lot of ways of looking at it, but I don't care for it
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Registered: 07-21-2004

I think Yahoo's thinking is if you look at someone's profile but are "too shy" to write to them/send an icebreaker, maybe the person will see that you've looked at it and think, "Oh, cool - that person looked at me - I'm going to write to him/her."

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Registered: 04-09-2008
I really am laughing out loud right now... Yeah, proposing getting a cup of coffee as an ice breaker is kinda jumpin the gun there... 'Defeats the need for an ice breaker if you can just suggest a date without even talking to the person! Doh!!
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Registered: 07-20-2001

I think the limited "canned" one liners or ice breakers, as they call them, are quite limited as far as a response to someone. I guess it is the web site's idea of enticing you into subscribing and e-mailing the person if you are interested. So far, I have not gotten any ice breakers from anyone I thought was worth subscribing for. In some ways, I also do not like the "Who's Viewed You" feature. That was one thing that make me very cautious when I was on Match. I was careful not to pull up someone's profile if I did not want them knowing I had looked at it. I guess it goes both ways, but all in all, I do not think it is a very good feature.

Speaking of Match, has anyone been active on that site since Dr. Phil has let his name be associated with it? I had hoped that there might be some re-vamps (for the better) now that he was supposedly involved, but I am not a subscriber. I have limited knowledge of how it works now.

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Registered: 02-02-2005

LOL, I laughed outloud at this too. The coffee line is soo dumb! I also think the one that says, you caught my eye, how do you like to be contacted is silly...it's like, um you can contact me here thanks. I gues some prefer email, but whatever

I agree the who's viewed you thing is a bit depressing. In the past 7 days i've been viewed 111 times but i assure you not nearly that many people have written (: I dont see the point of it either other than to make people feel like, oh i guess i was ok to view, but not good enough to write to, what are all these people not liking about me? lol, boohoo. In reality they may have never planned to write in the first place...they could have been doing just that...viewing a profile.