Quote Originally Posted by DonMike View Post
I can totally understand this. I think a really good interface for a dating site is one with a nice checklist of interests that can be searched by a database while also having a part where the user can fill in a little bit about them and what they are looking for. That way when you are browsing profiles you can search by the keywords for people with your same interests and then read the profiles once you narrow down your search. It's a good way to represent yourself in a profile while still allowing the person doing to search to easily make their way through a large number of profiles.

If the profiles on a hookup site were based entirely on an essay format you would have less people signing up, navigation would be much harder because people often use different terms for things, and it would not be very, as we used to say in the old days, user friendly.
It would be fantastic if dating sites had a function for searching for keywords in the entire profile, not only for certain things you tick in a checklist. At least I don't know about a site which has this feature.

For example, I have a profile on a big dating site from Europe and in your profile you can fill in in which age range the guy you are looking for should be. Unfortunately this information isn't searchable, so it's always a real pain to go through profile after profile just to find out that the cute guy from your town isn't interested in people in your age.

Also they have big boxes where you can write a lot of stuff about your personality or your sexual preferences, but again, such data is not searchable. I bet there a lot of matches for me (I'm not that spoiled), but I will never discover those gems simply because I can't search for them properly.

Of course you can't expect everybody to write long stories or even essays about themselves and their desires, but those who do are usually worth at least a second look. So the possibility to write some more about yourself definitely should be there. If I'm just looking for a quick suck or fuck I can always stick with the beautiful faces and profiles in which the only information given is the dick size (and take away at least 1 or 2 inches).