“Who knows what a date might lead to…?”

This is the tagline Match.com use for their TV advert. It features a young male and female prancing around cornfields, making crop circles, akin to those in Signs.

Aside from the obvious issue that I wouldn’t class making crop circles as a viable first date, and this activity is completely impractical in England, what the advert could do by explaining is how these two even managed to find each other on Match.com.

As my membership on Match draws to a close, I think what a waste of money it was. I seemed to have paid £20 to have a boring conversation with one man about his job and to be incessantly digitally winked at by an array of unattractive, older men.

Match.com offers plenty of ways to begin interacting with a potential connection, yet this might be its biggest downfall.

The Daily 6 function claims to learn your preferences. If you express interest in one of these six, they are automatically added to your favourites. Perhaps I haven’t used the website for long enough to accurately teach the algorithm as, according to Daily 6, I’m only interested in 20-year-olds.

Am I fussy or desperate?

Let’s hope not the latter.

Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash.