I assumed that this was because, as a free service, you get an awful lot of people on there (a bit like POF, although considerably less offensive, and with less of what Tit’s McGee and Miss Fifi refer to as ‘hot chavs’ – men with lots of tattoos and their shirts off) so your searching has to be more intensive.
Apparently not. According to the email that I received from OkCupid this morning, it’s not that the calibre of people on there are lower, it’s just that they have only just opened my profile up to what they refer to as ‘more attractive people’. I kid you not – this was waiting for me when I logged in this morning:
“Hey Miss P,
We just detected that you’re now amongst the most attractive people on OkCupid. We learned this from clicks to your profile and reactions to you in Quickmatch and Quiver. Did you get a new haircut or something? Well, it’s working.
To celebrate, we’ve adjusted your OkCupid experience. This won’t affect your match percentages, which are still based purely on your answers and desired match’s answers. But we’ll recommend more attractive people to you. You’ll also appear more often to other attractive people.”
Are you kidding me? I really hope that this is a somewhat desperate attempt on their part to make me engage with the site more and help them build advertising revenue by getting me addicted to clicking through multiple pages (wah-oh – work chat, I’ll stop now, I promise), because otherwise, I find this all a little bit wrong, and if nothing else, it’s making me even more inclined to bid farewell to yet another site for the general weird feeling of wrongness that they give me.
Well, maybe I’ll just wait and see how outrageously hot the people they send my way are going to be from now on in. I’m not going to lie, they better have something pretty darn impressive to pull out of the bag here…
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