Sorry for the non-posting. I’ve been a bit busy, not had enough sleep and feel like crap, to be honest.
But that’s not the point of this post.
The point of this post is to say to you out there – do not trust Meetic with your money!
Several times a day I get notifications, by email, that someone has viewed my profile.
I know, having used it for several months last year, that most people at the ‘top’ of any list are those that are online, followed by those that have been online in the last few days.
Except that I haven’t. So, unless by extraordinary coincidence, people are trawling though old profiles or being so specific in their search criteria as to have found me as being one of the only people, Meetic are placing me at the top of lists for no apparent reason. It almost makes me want to sign in as a fake person to see where I DO appear!
Maybe I will. But not today.
>F will be away in his home town at the weekend. I may go down on the Saturday for the night. We shall see. That’s not what is making me feel crappy either.
“It almost makes me want to sign in as a fake person to see where I DO appear”
Please, do it.
OK. Maybe I’ll do it tomorrow and post the result here
… results?
Well the results are not quite as expected.
I’m not shown as ‘online’, which is good, but I am shown as one of ‘Today’s Matches’ – even if I stopped my subscription and don’t go online. So I think this is where the profile visits come from.
Which just shows us that Today’s Matches are of no use whatsoever – I never did take any notice of them anyway, always preferring to see those online – i.e. those who were actively looking.
Still, it was good to check
I see. Social networking sites seem another world to me. I didn’t know one has to pay!
No, this is an online dating site. Most of these want you to pay and there are tricks they use to suck you in. I paid for 2 of them for six months.
Social Networking is still free – but they are working hard to find ways in which they can make you pay whilst still being the ‘leader’ in what they give. After all, the only way to sustain this model is to find someone who will pay for the armies of computers and people needed to run them.
Interestingly, the games on things such as Facebook, do have payment mechanisms in place – although they all offer you the basic game for free. The social networking sites must be looking at them with some envy, if, indeed, anyone pays for their games. However, I know that some people do.
To be honest, there must be a whole wealth of surveys and investigations into these that, I feel, hasn’t been done yet (or maybe it is being done right now).
But it would make for an interesting (if long) conversation, for sure.