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New eHarmony Feature: See How You Match

Though there are still bugs, eHarmony now reveals your religion, “Want Kids” and “Has Kids” settings, and your smoking and drinking habits to your matches. I spent the last few minutes seeing the drinking and smoking habits of people I’m communicating and whether they have kids, for the first time, and I said, “Why am I not surprised?!” :-D

This changes our Match Settings strategies a bit, but I welcome this change. My matches will be able to see up front what my religious beliefs are. Thanks, eHarmony!

(Update: By the time we finished writing this piece it seems eH pulled this feature out — for repairs, probably, and to fix the bugs.)

(Update: 10 August: Bugs fixed. eH puts the feature back.)

(Update: 16 August: eH pulled the feature out again, as well as the “Has Kids” setting. Is revealing whether one has kids below 18 a privacy invasion in a matrimonial dating site?? I mean, I want to know before communication if there are young children involved with the match.)

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Comments 2

  1. Sandra Maxedon wrote:

    The problem is a lot of the information up front is that it can be misconstrued. Example: as a childless, sixty-year-old female, I am at a distinct disadvantage because children are a given in our culture, and there must be “something wrong” or incorrigible, catastrophic, or otherwise unattractive about not having been able to ever get pregnant. However, most matches don’t even get that far. They close for “Other”. That’s good because I do not want to be with an inflexible man who is not even curious (and maybe compassionate?) with my situation.

    Why do children have to be right up front anyway? What about education, for instance? Or, yes, even income?

    Posted 10 Aug 2006 at 8:29 am
  2. eharmonyblog wrote:

    Good points, Sandra. I think the “Has Kids:” that now appears must be changed to “Has Kids Below 18:” That’s the wording on the Match Setting question anyway. The text discriminates people like you at whose age children don’t matter.

    Education might come up in the next system version. Income? I don’t know. They declared loudly that they do not match based on income.

    Girl, forget about the people who close for “Other,” — be happy you wasted no more time on them. Check your “Closed” folder only when you have time for a laugh.

    Posted 10 Aug 2006 at 8:27 pm

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