# Match Buys OKCupid **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 2, 2011, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-buys-okcupid/569916 "2011-02-02T18:05:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-buys-okcupid/569916/1 "2011-02-02T18:05:55Z")
Match has bought [OKCupid](http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20110202/SMALLBIZ/110209966#). OKCupid has already taken down their blog post about how you should never pay for online dating. OKCupid 2005 - 2011? RIP. It’s only a matter of time. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-buys-okcupid/569916/2 "2011-02-02T18:35:38Z")
Bummer. The site won’t be the same now. I hope I don’t wind up single again. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-buys-okcupid/569916/3 "2011-02-02T18:41:32Z")
Wow, this could be really interesting. I’ve always said I like the people on Match better (apperently this is very demographic dependent), but I really like reading through all the questions people answer. I think how someone answers all those questions often times says more about them then what they write about themselves in the summary. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-buys-okcupid/569916/4 "2011-02-02T18:49:17Z")
Good riddance. No offense to the people who like the site, of course. **JoeyP** , maybe Match will end up incorporating something like the “questions” feature in its service. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-buys-okcupid/569916/5 "2011-02-02T18:53:40Z")
> [@cuauhtemoc](#): > > Good riddance. No offense to the people who like the site, of course. **JoeyP** , maybe Match will end up incorporating something like the “questions” feature in its service. That’d be nice. Especially since some people put a lot of time into those questions as well as their journal _and_ they have a MB. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-buys-okcupid/569916/6 "2011-02-02T19:13:54Z")
I really hope that OKCupid doesn’t go away. I’ve been on Match for awhile and got all of one date out of it. I know that I messaged a ton of women, but only two or three ever responded. Hell half of them never even looked at my profile, unless you can keep it from showing that. I know that in Dec-Jan I sent a good 30 messages or so. Not one wrote back. On OKCupid I’ve had a lot more success. Maybe it’s the questions or something as I have had a lot more people respond to me. I have a few first dates this weekend which is really odd for me. And **lavenderviolet** you’ll always have us. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-buys-okcupid/569916/7 "2011-02-02T19:27:06Z")
> [@Edward\_The\_Head](#): > > I really hope that OKCupid doesn’t go away. I’ve been on Match for awhile and got all of one date out of it. I know that I messaged a ton of women, but only two or three ever responded. Hell half of them never even looked at my profile, unless you can keep it from showing that. I know that in Dec-Jan I sent a good 30 messages or so. Not one wrote back. > > On OKCupid I’ve had a lot more success. Maybe it’s the questions or something as I have had a lot more people respond to me. I have a few first dates this weekend which is really odd for me. That is weird. I was on OkCupid for a while, and as I just posted in the other thread, it was like my profile didn’t exist. I had a lot more success with Match, but that was about ten years ago. I wouldn’t even try signing up there now, not after my experience with the free site. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-buys-okcupid/569916/8 "2011-02-02T23:22:28Z")
As I said in the other thread, this will let me consolidate all my futility in one place. Quite thoughtful of them, really.