# Creepy, creepy... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 11, 2018, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepy/812195 "2018-04-11T03:03:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepy/812195/1 "2018-04-11T03:03:58Z")
I’m considering a job in Iowa, and I searched [match.com](http://match.com) for women my age in the vicinity. One woman looked particularly intelligent, so I read her profile. As it happens, she’s a writer, a world traveler, and a science-fiction fan. Woo-hoo! She mentions her first name in her profile, and her handle is the combination of her first initial and last name. So I searched for her full name and “Iowa” on Google, and found a number of pictures of this smart, vibrant woman. That is, she _was_ a smart, vibrant woman. All the pictures were from a funeral home. According to the obituary in the _Iowa City Press-Citizen_, she died of cancer in 2011. What the hell? Is this what Iowans do for amusement? ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepy/812195/2 "2018-04-11T03:14:38Z")
_“Daaate me, **Sefton**. Daaaaate meeeee!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepy/812195/3 "2018-04-11T03:15:23Z")
Match profiles don’t expire, like people do. They keep all the data live and churning so their algorithms have more to work with unless you specifically log in and deactivate your account. It’s probably been seven years or so since anybody got an email back from her. She probably ghosted a few people. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepy/812195/4 "2018-04-11T03:23:12Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Match profiles don’t expire, like people do. Ah, that makes sense. I didn’t realize that their profiles don’t expire. All the same, that’s a crazy policy. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepy/812195/5 "2018-04-11T03:50:44Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Match profiles don’t expire, like people do. They keep all the data live and churning so their algorithms have more to work with unless you specifically log in and deactivate your account. It’s probably been seven years or so since anybody got an email back from her. She probably ghosted a few people. I see [dead people] what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepy/812195/6 "2018-04-11T12:34:28Z")
Don’t be afraid (Come on Sefton) We can be like they are ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepy/812195/7 "2018-04-11T13:00:47Z")
Facebook, LinkedIn, Blue Mountain, and others keep, er…haunting me. I get still get birthday reminders and similar notifications for a friend who died in 2008, and my mother, who died in 2013. (I actually tried to get LinkedIn to do something about it - they were a huge disappointment in that regard.) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepy/812195/8 "2018-04-11T15:54:26Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Don’t be afraid > (Come on Sefton) > We can be like they are Valentine is done Here but now they’re gone ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepy/812195/9 "2018-04-11T15:57:25Z")
That doesn’t rhyme. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepy/812195/10 "2018-04-11T16:00:23Z")
And when I die, and when I’m gone, There’ll still be my profile to carry on, to carry on. (apologies to Laura Nyro) ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepy/812195/11 "2018-04-11T16:18:10Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > That doesn’t rhyme. It works if you have enough cowbell. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepy/812195/12 "2018-04-11T16:27:11Z")
People are just dying to get listed on [match.com](http://match.com). ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepy/812195/13 "2018-04-11T16:36:15Z")
Must have warm body and _braaainz_! In a few decades, the human race may die out because all the dating sites will be full of dead people. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepy/812195/14 "2018-04-11T16:41:39Z")
^ Are you insinuating the dating sites are self-aware? I don’t see James Cameron making a movie series about that. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-creepy/812195/15 "2018-04-11T17:47:21Z")
I didn’t mean to offend anybody. So long as I have enough meat tenderizer, I’m happy to spend a magical evening with a necro-American. But seven years is a deal-breaker. I have my standards.