2008年8月22日 星期五

My general impression of matchmaking site

1. Why do they still exist despite the abundance of social-networking site like MySpace/FaceBook/Netlog?
2. What value they offer that other doesn’t provide?
3. I don’t like the fact they read and approve the message between members, there is little privacy guaranteed.
4. What they provide appear to me only as a place to concatenate people of similar interest, then offer a central place for IM or email, nothing that Gaim/MSN/ICQ doesn’t provide.
5. Yes, their values lies in their ‘unique’ search engine, nothing special about that. There is not a special formula specially to match the right person. Doing so will require knowledge of Psychology, which doesn’t appear to be their strength.
6. Knowing how to search is NOT equal to know how to do matchmaking.
7. Base on above, I have little incentive to pay them in order to use their advance function.

My thoughts:
1. Can we have a free matchmaking service base on P2P technology? i.e. decentralized
2. Can such service be of higher quality than existing one? Not just a giant database then search, search, search.
3. High privacy, nobody to approve what and monitor what.
4. All operated by volunteer?

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