four days running

[jchrisobrien]

I deleted my OKCupid account today, after what must be the fiftieth woman messaged me that I would never go out with. I don't need this kind of negative reinforcement, thanks.
Facebook and Myspace are on the cusp too. One I never really use, and the other is just a duplicate for almost everyone I know (except for one person I have no business talking to ever).
Livejournal stays, because I've been here forever, and I'm not limited to 140 characters per post (you go to hell, twitter.)

History tells me there is a light at the end of the tunnel. So I will listen to history, and not my head, even though this tunnel is black as pitch. There are things crawling in it.

Comments

[random-girl.livejournal.com]

Maybe they're really shy glow worms?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_perihelion_/]

"It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."

[alonewiththemoon]

Wait, how is fifty people messaging their interest in you negative reinforcement, even if none of them is someone you feel any interest in? Surely you ought to take some measure of pride from the numbers alone ;-p

(I do know what you were getting at, but still, it does come out kind of funny, you must admit)

[carta.livejournal.com]

I loooooove Twitter, but I mostly use it to send bitchy texts to my friends, haha. (And, yes, I follow misha collins, who is hilarious.)

OK Cupid always ignored my geography requirements. I don't have a car. If you don't live in the city, I am NOT INTERESTED. And yet, girls from Wisconsin, wtf.

[uncletang.livejournal.com]

Well, this place isn't really a meat market, so I think it's great this one stayed.

Adding to the peanut gallery

[scarletcarsen.livejournal.com]

Unless your poly, desperate ducks or looking for new friends, there’s no reason to have an OKCupid. I got rid of mine for some of the same reasons you did + the foot fetish freaks. (For some reason I attract the foot fetish people on dating websites, there must be photos floating around on the interwebs and it’s just my bare feet. Gross!) At least you don't get any of that type of negative feed back!

I don't have the TIME to date someone I'm not passionate about for six months on the off chance something comes of it.

I’m not that old but I hate to waste time as well. I’m sick of dating somebody for 6 mounts or even 2 years and then things fall apart for whatever reason. At the moment for myself, I want to tell the Universe to stop sending me 30 something’s that want to get married and have children. I mean, WTF? In my opinion the Universe has been full of fail lately.

[mrfph.livejournal.com]

Oh no!! I was contemplating quiting LJ (because I never manage to write anything), but if you quite FB and I quite LJ we may lose touch! Wish I had more time to spend up in Boston :(

[voodoodollie167.livejournal.com]

I'm on OKCupid, and have had mostly terrible luck. I've gotten some of the most useless emails of my entire life on there. On the other hand, I've also made a couple new friends on there, and even ended up finding someone that I made a real connection with, if only for a brief time because he's a broken boy.

I guess what I'm trying to say here is, it's easy to ignore the endless sea of people that aren't worth your time to find one or two that are. Especially on the internet.

And having said that, I've been considering deleting my OKC account for a while now. I probably would too if I weren't so bad at making romantic connections in person. :/