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Why Being in the “Top 25” is Meaningless
The silliness of rating systems on online dating sites
Sometime last February, as I was soothing my busted heart (and sitting endlessly on the toilet in Indonesia), I rejoined Fitness Singles.
This online dating system promises that you and I will meet, fall in love with and/or at least work out with like-minded fitness nuts.
I have no clue why I keep ponying up to pay for this but nobody said I was smart. At least in this regard. Certainly not in this regard. Perhaps my ego needed soothing (yes of course it did, so there you go).
As has always happened before, in no time my profile, flush with recent and fun photos, and a well-written and funny bio, shot to the top.
Not just in my age group, where I often hover close to #1 in the 55+ category, but in all ages. At 67, I’m a lot older than most of those women.
It says something that your profile sits in the top ten in several million, especially as I am barking at 70.
And it’s fucking meaningless.
Because out of all the looks, the likes, the compliments on my guns, my great profile and all the rest of it, I never once got a date out of Fitness Singles.