There's a fundamental problem with eharmony, which supposedly pinpoints your perfect match depending on your profile. It's completely reliant on user-inputted information. People hardly know what they want, much less who they are. Even I don't trust my own self-assessments. We can hardly be a good judge of character if we're not in touch with our true selves. How can you tell if you're truly introspective, or if you're just plain fooling yourself?
Then again, I suppose that's the entire idea of finding a soul mate in the first place. Perhaps the only way we can truly know ourselves is through someone else. It's not like we know what we look like without a mirror, wouldn't the same apply to personality?
Matchmaking isn't an exact science, but there are enough trends, rules, and tendencies to help a person decide whether or not that special someone truly is "the one."
Anything that can pierce the veil of nonsense that covers our society is a plus in my book. So can we get rid of the stigma of online matchmaking already? Storybook meetings are just that, meetings in a storybook. I'd like my relationships to have a solid basis on data and probability rather than fairy tale presumptions.
But...I might just be fooling myself.
