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Q&A: Is eHarmony Blog pro-eHarmony?

Posted by eharmonyblog on 01 March 2010 under *eSsentials* · Comments (8)

Hmm, let’s check:

1. Tips and tricks and hacks on how to use eHarmony effectively.
2. How-tos on responding to matches.
3. Polls on how to use eHarmony effectively.
4. A photo of an eHarmony success story on each page.
5. The web’s only commercial-free source of promo codes.
6. Coverage of eHarmony acquisitions or new site features.

On the other hand Continue Reading »

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EHB, on your side — March 2010 issue

Posted by eharmonyblog on 01 March 2010 under EHB, on your side · Comments (0)

eHarmony Blog is on your side. If you have a complaint with eHarmony and you have trouble getting through customer service, let us know. Don’t forget to give your eHarmony account email address and don’t forget to give us permission to chase eHarmony on your behalf.

Here is last month’s supply of consumer complaints against eHarmony posted on the leading gripe website ConsumerAffairs.com, plus our comments. Some of this month’s complaints are valid and justified, thus highlighted, while the rest are “buyer beware — read the fine print” or may be resolved with a call to customer service.

No, we are not eHarmony, we just like to help out or comment. If you have an opinion as well, post them at the end of the article. Continue Reading »

 

University of California Berkeley students find out UCB students are shallow (a comment on social experiments)

Posted by Pyke on 01 March 2010 under Opinion · Comments (2)

I took Sociology 101 in university and never liked it.

eHarmony Labs (and subsequently the official blog) shared this week the findings of four University of California Berkeley (UCB) psychology majors of their study on the “Relative Importance of Physical Attractiveness on Initial Attractiveness and Dating Online“.

The Labs piece, “A picture in your profile might get you a date, but not a relationship!” reads like a rebuttal to last month’s OKCupid Blog piece on the 4 myths of profile photos that was featured on the New York Times two weeks ago. The Labs piece reads like a half-baked “Hey, here’s proof that good photos don’t matter in a long-term-relationship dating site.”

I reviewed these students’ findings and, funny, I came up with different conclusions: Continue Reading »

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  • sf wrote

    What I like about OkCupid is the use of 'ranged' questions as a statistical match of match, friend, enemy. I have a problem of calling it "personality". I believe that the underlying character is what keeps a relationship working, albeit it manifests itself in the personality. …

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