The online dating site I use will let me choose whether or not other people can see that I’ve visited their profile, but the site gives me an ultimatum: I can either let people see that I’ve visited and I can see who has visited me, or I can go stealth and no one will know if I’ve looked at their profile, but I don’t get to see who has visited me.
It’s fair. And it makes me feel like I’m a kid whose mother is trying to teach her a morality lesson. “You can get the set of blocks if you share it with your brother, but if you don’t share you don’t get any.” Yes, I just compared an internet dating site to my mother. And, come to think of it, I just compared all my potential dates to my brother. I’m not going to think about that too long.
Anyway...like most morality lessons, there is of course a way to game the system. While I was blithely strolling along, content to see and be seen, a fellow internet dater and I were trading war stories when she asked me, “So do you have a fake account?”
Blink.
“What?”
“A fake account. Basically a blank profile so that when someone visits you you can go read their page without them knowing that you’ve read it since if they look at who has visited them they will just see an empty profile. And then you don’t have to run the risk of reading a profile of someone that you end up not liking at all and having them know that you’ve looked at them.”
Blink.
That seems like a lot of trouble. You would have to go back and forth between accounts all the time. And that takes, you know, moving my fingers around on a keyboard. Effort, people. EFFORT.
But every so often I get visited by a blank profile and I think, “Somebody never learned how to share their blocks!”
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