Question:
What counts as a “view” in Who Has Viewed Me? What counts as an activity in “Sort by recent activity”? What counts as a “Match Update”? Help me figure out my match is doing!
Answer:
There are many programming inconsistencies on the site, borne from many years of disparate revisions by many disparate programmers who never used the site as actual customers. This article hopes to clarify which is what… at least until the next revision.
Views. A “view” means your match looked you up. It is anytime a person accesses a Match page, that is, any page that has your photo on it — with a couple exceptions. Two exceptions are the “Icebreaker” page and the “Request Secure Call” page. The system doesn’t count them as views.
Accessing the Personality Profile is also not a view. Neither is clicking on a link in an email on your Inbox from eHarmony.
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eHarmony’s Facebook page http://facebook.com/eharmony/ launched nine months ago this weekend, and this week they bring in three more volunteer “Santa’s Elves” to highlight the positive and to encourage its frustrated customers.
Get in touch with a mentor and get encouragement. Here are the six mentors’ facebook profiles.
(Except for Jensen, all six are not their real names, but let’s give them the benefit of the doubt that they are actual success stories and not company employees.)
(Our favorite eHarmony Host Kate today reveals never-before-official tricks on Match Settings for religion. It also adds official information on the site’s uber-secret religiosity filter. Almost all of her tips have been in our Match Settings tricks page since 2006)
Because faith can be deeply personal and difficult to organize into simple categories, it is a sensitive yet powerful setting device. On a service such as this, the system is necessarily finite and doesn’t have the ability to include every nuanced shade in the spectrum – without some artistic maneuvering of the account holder. How you define your own religion and religions of others based on your personal experiences may be different than the way they are labeled within eHarmony’s settings or within your potential matches’ minds.
In order to take the best advantage of the service as it is, it may be helpful to set aside personal definitions and work within the provided categories to get the matches that are best for you. It’s equally important to note that we are not recommending discarding your personal core beliefs to please someone else or to “be open” in a way which is contrived, but in a way that optimizes your experience.
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THINGS MEN SAY: My good blog/twitter friend Ronda just signed up for my beloved eHarm. I’m so excited for her and at the same time I feel I have so much wisdom to share. I started to write my tips down as a comment to her, and decided to finish them up here for all to enjoy.
So without further ado, I give you my Incredibly Useful and Truthful Tips for Navigating the Waters of eHarmony. Or UITTNWE for short.
Tip #1: Don’t be afraid to close someone out for any reason. Just because you are matched doesn’t mean he isn’t weird. And let’s be honest, we’re all little weird, but some styles of weird aren’t compatible.
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Answer:
Yes, it makes a difference.
This is further covered in one of our earlier articles regarding a HTML file that is designed to automate the clicking of the “Find New Matches” link every ten minutes.
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Yes, if you’re lucky.
eHarmony has an Outbound sales team and, unless you tell them NOT to call you, you may get a phone call from them to “assist you with your account” (such as tell you why you ought to subscribe again).
In fact, they’re hiring a Premium Services Sales Rep right now who needs to make a huge volume of calls. Did you tell them you’re high income?
There is no OPT-OUT button on the site or during the registration process. To never receive phone calls from eHarmony, you have to call them. Even then, you have to hope they haven’t given your phone number yet to an Acme Telemarketing Company. Their privacy policy gives them permission to do this.
No, you cannot change your phone number on the site unless you purchase another subscription.
I am disgusted that there is no email access to eharmony. There should be someone on line to instantly help with a problem. I had a list of men that I could look at but now the list is gone. I cannot join because they only use credit cards. Why not Pay Pal or another method, I want only 3 months bu …
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