Tips and tricks: “Any profiling on ‘fasttrackers’ that might be useful?”

Tony Shifflett asked this question in eHarmony Cracked last week.

eHarmony rolled out two features in September emphasising FastTrack: one, the redesigned Match Details screen (see figure), and two, the Preferred Communication Type Match Setting.

Match Details screen (October 07)

The FastTrack button is no longer just a button on the bottom corner of the screen. With the new screen design, approaching people from across a crowded room and saying, “hello,” is more encouraged than before.

What makes a woman accept or give FastTrack?

The key is:

A woman’s decision to accept or give FastTrack depends only on one thing: her comfort and confidence on carrying a good conversation with you.

Her comfort and confidence towards people she hasn’t met depends on her personality, of course, and the matching system tends to match outgoing people with other outgoing people. Nonetheless, if two things are present,

  1. Your About Me profile generates intrigue and opens up conversation topics, and
  2. Her About Me profile (or her answers so far) displays her comfort and confidence in meeting new people like you

then you have an enormous chance in having a FastTrack accepted — no matter what Communication Type she prefers. See for yourself if what I say is true. Let us know what “type” of people accept FastTrack or don’t.

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Comments 2

  1. Scott Grey wrote:

    Regarding:

    “Nonetheless, if [...] Her About Me profile (or her answers so far) displays her comfort and confidence in meeting new people like you, then you have an enormous chance in having a FastTrack accepted”

    Just one caveat runs through my mind:

    Oftentimes, people describe themselves as they WISHED they were, rather than the person who they REALLY are.

    And if they’re not quite honest with themselves, you’ll probably be stuck.

    And, yes, it probably happened to me once. (She opened the fast track, then froze. In terror, perhaps?)

    Of course, you might say, “good riddance anyway”. And I wouldn’t blame you for a second.

    Posted 05 Nov 2007 at 7:26 am
  2. eHarmony Blog wrote:

    Scott, she accepted. That’s my point.

    She froze. It could be because of what you wrote; it could be because of other reasons why people vanish in eHarmony.

    In any case, if she accepts and reads your message, then you’ll be in the OC stage with her. At that point, you can send follow-ups freely.

    Posted 05 Nov 2007 at 8:53 am

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