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OkCupid
OkCupid is a free online dating service. Have you taken the OkCupid tests and found your match? Well maybe you should... Use this community to share photos, videos, blogs, and random thoughts about the site.
Okcupid is a fun place to take quizzes, meet people, and learn more about yourself.
-Phantomslimbo
OkCupid has so many great tests...they are fun, created by people just like you, and best of all you get to rate them,so that people can make changes. It's always nice to be able to make a change. Even if its just a little one.
-Cocomunkie (on both)
On OKCupid, you can learn a lot about yourself while you search for a match. It's great! :D
~karmakazi219
OkCupid is an addictive way to pass the time when you can't sleep. ;)
-thelifehypnotic RGLMf
OKCupid is a good reminder that finding love should be FUN!
-justfriends6870 (here, and there)
OKCupid is my most secret thing I'm willing to admit... that I like online tests...
-whereiseljefe
I love OKCupid.. especially since I met someone very special recently :)
-pinktequila
OkCupid has some fun tests and quizzes to get to know yourself better, and know about other people! ;)
-robawts
At least on OKCupid, I don't have to pay $20 a month (or more) to be rejected or ignored by women. On the other hand, being free encourages others to well, jerk you around more.
- DiscoJer (here and there)
OKCupid hasn't led me to love yet, but it helped me to make some really good friends when I moved to a new city. Plus, it's amazing for killing time.
-chemfreak
OKCupid is a cool place to just be yourself free to tell the truth take brutally honest test and meet really cool people who like the same things you do.
~starter_88~
I like the tests, although I wonder about some of the demented minds that devise them. So far the matching has been hopeless for me, so I've given up on that aspect of it. But I have chatted with people from all over the world, which is uber-cool!
~ val0tte (on both) ~
It's a totally free matching service. It's also extremely accurate,
as long as (a) you're honest, and (b) you know what you want. We don't claim
to evaluate you perfectly, but we do claim to find someone who claims to fulfill
your claimed requirements, exactly.
We firmly believe that most matching sites are just personals services; their "matching"
systems are nonexistent or overly subjective.
While we have a small team here, we all take math (and all that math implies) very seriously. OkCupid is a fun project for us for a variety of reasons, only one of which is the actual content. We aim to be the best matching service on every front: superior technology, better math, better psychology. And of course, it's free, unlike all the others.
Source: OkCupid FAQ
While we have a small team here, we all take math (and all that math implies) very seriously. OkCupid is a fun project for us for a variety of reasons, only one of which is the actual content. We aim to be the best matching service on every front: superior technology, better math, better psychology. And of course, it's free, unlike all the others.
Source: OkCupid FAQ
Here's what we'd love to see on OkCupid:
- [enter feature requests here]
- ???
- Maybe a little more interactivity wouldn't hurt, something nice and enjoyable game or whatever :P
- The ability to block the journals of users who you don't like on the front page. Or at least the ability to filter that and the new "Possible matches" on the front page by martial status and age. Seriously - the demographics of the site skew extremely young (lots of 20-21 year olds) and those are not really appropriate matches for middle aged people. (I guess unless you are a celebrity or millionaire)
The online dating site OKCupid has a blog where they post analyses of the tons of data they collect, and it's really fascinating. For instance the attractiveness of woman on OKCupid, as judged by the men on OKCupid, is a symmetrical bell curve. In other words, half the women are better-than-medium looking and half are worse-than-medium looking. But OKCupid's women rate 80% of OKCupid's guys as worse-than-medium looking! Even more interesting...
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By The Daily Orange feature staff OKcupid.com Where to go? OKCupid.com is your standard online dating service, but the minute that "needy_flash" was suggested as an alternative screen name to just "SUflash," something about the OKCupid site didn't seem quite right.
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From dailyorange.com
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Every few weeks Internet dating site OkCupid uses the power of anonymized data to share a few truths about the online dating scene and human nature in general. To be sure, these reports are often highly controversial and aren't going to be showing up in scientific literature any time soon, but they're generally interesting (and often amusing) reads. The latest report to come out addresses 'Your Looks And Your Inbox', charting the number of...
From feedburner.com
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- Patterns of response rates on OkCupid by sex & race (scienceblogs.com)
- Charts to help you succeed in online dating (boingboing.net)
Question: Would you consider role-playing out a rape fantasy with partner who asked you to? 340,000 people responded. Green = YES, Red = NO.
It’s a very specialized kind of porn. It’s my kind of porn. It’s data mining porn!
Recently (in June) and with little fanfare to the world outside, popular dating site OKCupid, the venerable [...]
From tinynibbles.com
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- Birds of a feather flocking together (scienceblogs.com)
You don't need to be embarrassed about visiting dating sites unless you're into literature instead of video games, insist on using netspeak and cannot spell the word defenestration. Okay, I made that last part up. But this survey conducted by dating site OKCupid — which analyzed over 500,000 first messages exchanged between users — shows some interesting trends about getting your nerd on as a first impression. For starters, the survey says...
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From kotaku.com
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This recent post on the OKCupid blog has been widely linked, but since I covered this previously, at some length (also related), I feel obligated to post it.
If you have any interest in this subject, you'll no doubt read the whole thing, but if you need any further suasion, here are the key figures. Reply rates by race when men send messages...
...and reply rates by race when women send messages...
Read it and weep. (Or rejoice, I...
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From abstractfactory.blogspot.com
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OPW INTERVIEW - Sep 21 - Sam Yagan is CEO/Founder of OkCupid.com. Here’s the story of how he started OkCupid, and CrazyBlindDate.com. - Mark Brooks Listen to the interview Sam, you have a history of starting renegade companies. What services that you’ve created in the past are you most proud of? I started 3 companies in the last 10 years. In each case, I was passionate about bringing a community of people around free products or online...
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From onlinepersonalswatch.com
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