I’m still awake at 4AM, found this story about eHarmony. I hate them! I’m one of the 20% who, according to the story “aren’t the marrying type”.
“We try to be nice,” Buckwalter said. “We tell them our services probably won’t be useful.”
Fine, maybe the 2004 Me isn’t the marrying type, but help me meet one of those other 20%, and we can at least be two non-marrying types together instead of alone.
(Must remember to check to see if the Google search hate eHarmony brings this up in a couple of weeks)
So, when you take their little quiz, is the end result just a “sorry, we can’t help you?”
Yeah, ya know, that’s what they say. But I am still allowed to hate them. You seem to get a rise out of knocking people down on their LJs. I’ve seen it on mine, and I’ve seen it on others. If us whiny pathetic types piss you off so much (as you’ve indicated in recent entries), why do you keep us on your list, as some sort of fascinating anthropological exercise? I’ve had enough. You may have a thick skin and feel you have a right to tear into anything anyone writes at anytime, but I don’t need this.
I’m wondering how to respond to this. I haven’t done anything at all to you. The only possible thing I can come up with that could have caused this reaction to you is a post I made about writing in my journal where I, very accurately, summarized a couple of the journals I’ve read (an assessment that most who are described would even agree with).
When I responded to this particular post asking whether or not they said “sorry, we can’t help you”, I was genuinely curious because I took the quiz out of curiosity (fully expecting to be one of the 1 in 5) and didn’t see a rejection outright, but a few veiled assertions in their summary results, and I was wondering if that was it.
As far as “whiny pathetic types pissing me off”, I never said that. Nor did I describe anyone as “pathetic” or “whiny”. In fact, I’ve refrained from adding several people’s journals back (in the past) because the content utterly failed to interest me on any level. If I considered anyone to be “whiny” to the point of being “pathetic”, I assure you that I would not read.
However, if you find that you are in a fragile enough state of mind to read personalized torment into any of my posts (even though such is not there), I freely invite you to stop reading my journal. In fact, if you choose, as a result of that, to take me out of your carefully cultivated filters, I would not be offended or even particularly surprised.
The blunt facts of the matter are that everyone’s livejournal are chosen shared moments given to the public. Whether those moments be good or bad, someone has chosen to share them, and someone has chosen to read them. But, as my writing post was more directed, those moments of life do not share a direct relationship to ‘writing’ as an exercise. Keeping a diary does not make one a writer. Reading other people’s diaries does not give you a writer’s insight into people when those diaries are freely public and filtered by self-constraint.