Friday Fun: Match.com profiles are fake and lame
February 15, 2008 by libertyisforme
Looking for love, sometimes tends people to create new personalities. But the latest twist in online dating isn’t creating but stealing personalities.
The WSJ highlights this new trend.
“Hugh Gallagher, a 36-year-old writer in New York, is one of the copied. Match.com has more than 50 profiles with parts of Mr. Gallagher’s college entrance essay, which he penned nearly two decades ago and later appeared in Harper’s Magazine. “I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees” and “I write award-winning operas” are among Mr. Gallagher’s most popular lines.
They worked well enough for Jim Carey, a 38-year-old pharmaceutical salesman in Bothell, Wash. He says he wanted women to know he was funny but was too lazy to think up anything. So he copied Mr. Gallagher’s essay for his online profile. A year ago, he arranged to meet a woman for drinks. She asked about his operas. He confessed. “I felt like a balloon deflating,” he says.”
Honestly, if you aren’t cool enough to come up with just one witty line, I have one for you: I am a pathetic loser who will probably die a virgin, date me.
