So I’m trying the online dating thing and it has been more than funny! I don’t meet many men my own age at work, all of my close friends are married or attached and I’m not one to date really young men so I’m trying my hand at online dating. Let’s just say it’s been a hottttt mess.
Eharmony:
Well after you fill out the 2 hour long questionnaire, I got nada. No matches for weeks. I guess not too many Black men are willing to fill out that long azz questionnaire. Then I started getting matches for 40 year old men. I have 2 sisters, 39 and 40 and I really don’t want to date anybody who would be a good candidate for them. Then I got a couple of short men. And here’s the catch… after you do the entire questionnaire, you find out that you can’t talk to anybody unless you “Show e-harmony the money”. So I got an interesting sounding match (no picture, he could definitely be a booger bear) and I made the plunge and subscribed…. talking to one guy now. He’s too cheap to subscribe for more than a couple of months so he sent me his phone number. HOLD UP! We have been exchanging pre-selected questions thus far… he could be intellectually challenged. I don’t give the digits to just anybody…. well I did recently and I’ll have to write more about that fiasco later. The guy I originally subscribed to see is probably not a paid member. And the latest match has the same name as the ex-husband (not exactly a selling point).
Black People Meet (often Black Perverts Meet) occasionally called Big People With Bad Grills Meet:
Out of boredom I subscribed there too. Now I’m not a twig, I have a rather healthy body.. but when you say a few extra pounds you should not be talking a few extra PEOPLE. I mean dudes with body for weeks not days have been writing left and right. One in particular is good people but SOOOO not attractive, am I wrong to be a little standoffish? I just am not interested in him like that. I’m also not shallow, you don’t have to make >$50K to get my attention but can you have some ambition, please. If you work at McDonalds sweeping floors, can you at least aspire to be Calvin…. or the grill guy (cuz we all know that’s when the big bucks start rolling in)
The fun just keeps going….. can’t wait to read my emails today to see what kind of new jokes they bring….

Found your blog via Beloved and I’ll definitely be back to visit.
As someone who’s subbed to e
ComedyHarmony in the past and is on BlackPeopleFreaksMeet right now, your commentary is so on point. One of my good friends met her husband on eHarmony so it allegedly works, just didn’t work for moi. And BPM is so far so tired. I’ve seen the same dudes I’ve seen on BlackPlanet and Yahoo for years on there. They caught me out there for one month’s subscription, but I’ve already cancelled that sucker. Hopefully your luck is better than mine! LOLComment by Butta — August 20, 2005 @ 6:51 am
It’s funny you posted this. I recently added a profile with a photo on AOL’s Black VOices. And I was planning to write a blog posting some of the craziest shit folks can think of to send me. And after getting notes, emails from fat men, ugly men, and old men, I had to just take my photo down….. I’ll have to think of something else. So, you are not alone in this online dating arena…
Comment by Serenity23 — August 20, 2005 @ 1:18 pm
@butta- Thanks for reading! my girl met her husband on BPM. So far no luck but I did run into an old acquaintance on there. The same men are on Match, yahoo etc.
@serenity- i wish i could put a cartoon on there. Hell if you’re allowed to lie and say you have a few extra pounds when you really have 100, I should be able to look like Betty Boop!
Comment by Exhausted — August 20, 2005 @ 10:00 pm
Welcome to Da Bay, my sista!!!
Loved this post… LOL@”when you say a few extra pounds you should not be talking a few extra PEOPLE.” Too funny.
Keep sharing!!!
Comment by Will — August 22, 2005 @ 12:12 pm
Ok..hilarious! Friggin’ hilarious!! I did BlackPeopleMeet…or whatever the hell the new nickname for them is. Good Lawd…I swear every sucka over 55 was hittin’ me up. Damn!!! I was so glad when that subscription was over. I refuse to let my friends talk me into one more online dating site. Blah!
Comment by Singing — August 22, 2005 @ 8:49 pm
@ will- thanks for reading! I love your site… lurk there all the time!
@singing- we share the same birthday! I haven’t gotten the 55 year old men but I have gotten my share of white folk (confusion.. Black People Meet… are ya lost???). I lurk on your site all the time too.
So exciting to get some love! I have been lurking for a minute, decided to come out of the blogreading closet and post
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