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New eHarmony Feature: eHarmony Secure Call

Posted by MrServlet on 10 May 2007 under Seen on eH · Comments (10)

It appears that eHarmony has just added a new Secure Call feature to allow you to talk over the phone with your matches without having to reveal your phone numbers to each other. From their web site:

Click Request a Call on your match’s profile page.
Enter your phone number, and Secure Call will send an email to your match letting them know you want to talk. Your phone number will not be shared with your match.
Once your match accepts your request, you will be notified via email and will see a Place a Call link on your match’s profile.
Whenever you’re ready to call, click the link and your phone will ring. Pick it up and Secure Call will connect you to your match!

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The great two-timing debate

Posted by MrServlet on 09 May 2007 under Opinion § Replying to matches · Comments (4)

With any luck, you’ve gotten past the massive personality test, gotten your profile filled out, and persuaded eharmony to start matching you with eligible singles. You come back the next morning and SHAZAM! – you’ve got fifty new matches. And they all want to communicate with you!

OK, most of us are not that popular, but I’m sure anyone who has used eharmony with any level of seriousness has run into this conundrum. How do you deal with communicating with multiple matches, all of whom have the ultimate expectation of being your one-and-only? One thing you can do to reduce the likelihood of this problem is by disabling matching after every batch of matches, but even then you have to deal with a few that may or may not pan out. You want to explore every possible match and not frustrate someone by keeping them waiting, but if there are three matches that all sound like they are The One, it would be pretty aweful to tell Miss B that you’re busy with Miss A, and then have Miss A fall through. Decisions, decisions!

How do you deal with more than one interesting and active match in a way that respects them and benefits you? At what point in the process do you need to make an either-or decision? What do you think?

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  • Jen wrote

    I agree that it's silly to be exclusive just because you are talking to someone. I recently had a match tell me he was already communicating with someone and asked if it was okay to get back to me if it didn't pan out. I said sure, but thought it was silly not to communicate with multiple people. My …

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