Match Mobile Users?
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Match Mobile Users?
| Tue, 02-01-2005 - 12:15pm |
Anyone ever use Match Mobile? I signed up for it a long time ago and from time to time get these chat requests. I have never engaged in any chat over the system because it seems populated by super casual users. The profile name on Match Mobile is not the same as on Match and with some cellular services you cannot see the picture.
Have you ever tried this or had any positive results?

That service just made me think of a gaggle of 14 year old Japanese girls running around messaging each other like mad on the subway system.
Match has been trying all kinds of things lately, and most of them didn't really stick. Video profiles? Nope, didn't work. The voice thing is still there, IIRC, but they're not really pushing it much. Their little foray into matching on personalities and physical types/preferences is gone as well.
I think the latter were mostly an answer to these "don't just find matches, find BETTER matches" challenges that Match has been getting from the likes of PerfectMatch, True, and eHarmony.
But what it comes down to, I believe, is raw numbers. The service that can pop 14 pages of potential matches within 10 miles of your location is going to draw a lot more subscribers than the one that gives you a half-dozen matches each week, if that.
That- raw numbers- is what Match seems to do best, in most major markets, so I think that's what they're going to be focussing on. It would surprise me if they kept fooling around with things like Mobile Match.