Thursday, June 17

Guess What? I Got Hotter!

Guess who sent me an email today? OKCupid! And guess what they wanted to tell me?? I got hotter! Read the message:

We are very pleased to report that you are in the top half of OkCupid's most attractive users. The scales recently tipped in your favor, and we thought you'd like to know.

How can we say this with confidence? We've tracked click-thrus on your photo and analyzed other people's reactions to you in QuickMatch and Quiver.

Your new elite status comes with one important privilege:

You will now see more attractive people in your match results.

This new status won't affect your actual match percentages, which are still based purely on your answers and desired match's answers. But the people we recommend will be more attractive. Also! You'll be shown to more attractive people in their match results.


Awesome! I'm hot! I'm in the elite club! No longer a member of the OKC bourgeoisie! Oh, wait. They statistically calculated my attractiveness? And didn't tell me? Until they thought I was attractive? Or as they put it "the scales tipped in my favor"? How subversive. How tricksy. How demeaning.

And yet... I can't help this feeling of immense accomplishment. I just got offered the black Amex of OKCupid. Wow! I'm hot!



P.S. The email starts with [my profile picture] = good looking. HA! What a joke.

No comments: