the most disturbing thing about match.com by clock (4.00 / 3) #9 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 08:02:52 AM EST
is lumps people who meet on the internet through some normal means like irc or a collaborative media project into the same pile. 

yes, i met my wife on the intarweb...but it wasn't through e*harmony.  though we make a lot of jokes about e*hulver around our house.

fuckin' freaks.


Clock is right. [nt] --vorheesleatherface



Heralded by the dawning of AOL by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 1) #13 Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 09:56:57 AM EST

Companies have been ruining the Internet since they first figured out how to accept credit cards. The plan to market to desperate nerds, or, at the very least, people who sit in front of a computer all day, wasn't anything new; the demographics are obvious. The lonelier, the longer the audience is sitting right in front of the ad space. And they're basically selling the audience the audience. "Six months free" feels like a Soylent Green dinner buffet for some reason, and I don't particularly feel like RSVPing.


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