So I’ve been on an extended break from a specific for-pay matchmaking/dating website featured prominently in TV commercials and other marketing.
I have decided to return. However I do so under condition that I can re-take the initial personality profile questionnaire. This was granted by their customer support minions. My next step would be to re-take this quiz and re-make my visible profile, finally turning on matching again and see who pops up.
Here is some history of myself Vs. The Quiz. In round one, I took on the quiz solo. Me versus the quiz mono-a-mono. For all intents and purposes I failed. I wasn’t previously aware that one could fail a personality profile quiz, but as it turns out it is possible. In this case the results of the quiz placed me in a category that is not able to be serviced by this particular dating site. Their computer matching algorithms would be unable to satisfactorily match me with other people.
Round Two took place some time later. This time I followed in the footsteps of a friend and enlisted a female friend to assist me with the quiz. That is she asked me the questions and based on my answers and what she knew of me, skewed the responses one way of the other. This time the system allowed me access and granted me the opportunity to pay for computerized match-making.
Success from this point is a difficult thing to quantify. Overall success has not been achieved as I am currently not in a significant-other relationship or even potential SO relationship. There were one or two points along the path from there to here that were highlighted as short lived successes. Temporarily held highs of emotion and promise. Fleeting to be sure, but none the less memorable.
Now back to the present. Again I am faced with this quiz that decides how I am to be matched with potential mates. Or perhaps I will again be denied services. Do I choose to go it alone or to again enlist the knowing tweaking of a friendly female?