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Re: MATCH
| Wed, 04-20-2005 - 10:51am |
Just a little FYI to all you fellow Match users. When I logged into that old site this morning, it appears that Match has added on another subscriber perk !
You can now see who has viewed your profile, which includes both non-subscribers and paid subscribers. On the the plus side, this service lets you know who is out there checking you out... :) even if they haven't winked or emailed you . LM
You can now see who has viewed your profile, which includes both non-subscribers and paid subscribers. On the the plus side, this service lets you know who is out there checking you out... :) even if they haven't winked or emailed you . LM

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Wow Sheri! This is one of the first times I have disagreed with you! I think it is a GREAT feature.
First, I don't take it as rejection that the person clicked on my profile and didn't email or wink at me. I look at a lot of profiles based on a picture or a headline but I'll get into the profile and realize we are not a good match. No biggie - I actually READ the profiles so I think a lot can be gleaned from what they say. I might like them on looks, but find out there is something that won't click with us so there is no point in contacting them. It isn't rejection, it is realism.
Second, this gives me an idea of WHO is looking at me and if it is the target group that I WANT to look at me. Also, I can use it to see if the ones that I do want to look at me are actually contacting me. If not, then maybe I can tweak my profile or do something that might help encourage that demographic to be more likely to respond if they didn't.
However, there is the gross-out feature that I can see that a 63 year-old and a 52 year-old have both viewed me recently. Blech.
Well, just to p1ss myself off, I've thought of something good about this feature.
I've read many many profiles which start out promising but then I reach those awful words, "bonus points if you are ...." and I'm not so I next it. I now fantasize that Lover Boy will consider contacting me, even without those points.
I think this is the most delusional post I've ever typed! This is what happens when a girl's head gets turned in a bar. Knees -- watch out!
amjay
I don’t necessarily think its cool but I will say I’ve had a few guys whom I winked to that said they were going to contact me (they put me on their favorites list) but were busy with work or traveling.
I understand what you're saying, but personally, I'd rather not KNOW that the cute guy I winked at looked at my profile and decided not to wink back. I can then assume that he's trapped under a heavy piece of furniture and hasn't had a chance to look ;-). It's the same principle as not wanting to receive "thanks but no thanks" emails.
I really don't see the demographic thing as useful...I'm not clear on how knowing who's viewed you helps with that. What are you going to do, change your profile to say "Men over 45, stop viewing me!" ;-)? You can't control who's looking at you or who writes to you (and putting negatives about that in your profile is a turnoff)...all you can do is make the profile the best it can be. Can you think of an example of a tweak you might make in response to seeing who's viewed you?
Sheri
I'm with you, NWW. I turned that feature off when I was using the American Singles site, and although I'm not doing OLD right now I'm sad to hear that they started it on Match.com.
Of course, there's an easy way around it- browse the folks on Match without logging in. Or if you have both Internet Explorer and Firefox on your machine, use one browser that's got your login information on it (as a cookie) and browse folks using the other browser (but do NOT ever log on from the alternate browser).
Then they'll have no way of knowing if you're looking at them.
When I first saw this feature on AS, I thought it was kind of cool... but the more I thought about it the less I liked it.
Match seems to kind of cast around, looking for the combination of features and matching systems that they think is best. Physical stuff came and went, personality stuff came and went... what they need to do is recognize their strength, and hammer that home.
Match's strongest aspect, at least in my city, is their numbers. They've got more people, period. Trying these other things is, to me, a waste of time.
I'm not necessarily saying that it would work - I don't know, I haven't tried it yet! But I might just put more details into the profile or try a different tactic if the ones I would like to contact me are not. I think it would be an interesting experiment to see if it worked. If it doesn't, obviously it doesn't mean anything.
I don't know why I think it is interesting to see who has looked at me, but for some reason it is. Also, I send out very few winks and emails on Match so I guess I am not looking at the rejection factor that you are. Lately, I have pretty much just let them come my way. But I definitely understand what you are saying on that note. Sure, it sucks when you wink at someone and you now KNOW that they looked at you and didn't wink back, but I guess it is just one of those things between knowing and just assuming.
I'm going to creat a backup profile with this guys picture just for the purpose of anonymously browsing profiles. I bet the ladies get a kick out of see this creep view them...
http://tinyurl.com/bexu9
So we're the pope now, eh lg?? :-)
OMG! I would FREAK if I saw that picture in a person's profile that had looked at me!
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