Comments on: The Boston Bachelor’s Online Dating Challenge: Part I, The Experiment

By: The Boston Bachelor

The Boston Bachelor — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:53:50 +0000

It’ll be up tomorrow.

~Dr. Phil

By: V

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:55:33 +0000

Kid,

Any results?

~Bated

By: Moxie

Moxie — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:11:25 +0000

Looking forward to the final results, meanwhile this article regarding a similar experiment done at match.com is interesting.
http://www.myprops.org/content/Online-dating-Results-using-fake-profiles-on-Match.com/

By: The Boston Bachelor

The Boston Bachelor — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:04:38 +0000

I’m trying to hit all ends of the spectrum, from sensitive new age guy to straightforward joe to rico suave to just-escaped-from-the-insane-asylum. Unfortunately, certain language filters have prohibited me from using all my profiles. Results so far have been intriguing.

By: Tigress

Tigress — Wed, 07 May 2008 01:01:18 +0000

I can’t wait to see how this goes. Funny, I always thought dating sites were meat markets for men and that they only came on looking for sex. I do think you’re right. Being a woman I can see right through that mess. I can’t help wondering if dating sites for men are what you put into it. I mean come on. If you’re sending cut and paste first contacts how much effort is that?

One of the biggest problems I see is that more often than not men go after the most beautiful women on the site or the ones with her boobs out, etc. Of course she’s overwhelmed with emails. You gotta send her something that stands out and it won’t be a cut and paste something that sounds just like every other guy.

Try this while you’re doing this experiment - be wildly different. I’ve even heard that sometimes the straight forward, bad boy image will get you everywhere. Now that’s an experiment. I was on one message board where there more obnoxious the man was about women the more the women contacted him. Go figure!

By: sarah

sarah — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:21:36 +0000

im definitely planning to check back to see how this goes for you. good luck! (though maybe i’d rather it not go well, as it’d surely make for a more interesting story?? haha).

By: Tish

Tish — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:23:58 +0000

I’m a single female and have done the online dating thing more times than I can count. I agree that women typically get lots of emails; however, we still browse through the profiles of single men and contact them through the site. At least I do. Well, I did. I gave up on such sites after I got dumped by the last boyfriend more than a year ago. Now I just wait for my Prince Charming to stumble upon my blog.

Good luck with your little experiment! Can’t wait to see how it turns out!

By: The Boston Bachelor

The Boston Bachelor — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:46:52 +0000

Check your email for the link. Consider it a partial replacement for the defective birthday gift.

I think hair loss is by far the biggest cash cow generated off of male insecurity. The ridiculous thing is hair loss doesn’t even matter. Chalk another one up for the marketing industry.

I think the female equivalent for hair loss is weight loss (talk about another cash cow), except weight loss can actually make a huge difference for a woman in terms of attractiveness. NAHS reunion there of.

I don’t get why people overcomplicate the science of weight loss–everyone I’ve known who’s lost 40 or lb. over the course of a few months has done the same exact thing: eat less calories and carbs, and exercise more. Shit, maybe I should start my own dieting company: “The RL Atkins South Beach Slim Fast Nutrasystem Smarties Diet.”

By: V

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:20:09 +0000

Floor.

Kid. Have you read Freakonomics? It’s been in the queue ever since it was published.

Online dating sights must make a shit load of money. Reminds me of our discussion on what categories of product guys will throw any amount of money at to solve: Hair loss, beating the stock market, dating etc…

In the name of science,

~Bill Nye