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Will you click with someone you meet online? Maybe, but some services don't make the process of finding a match any easier.
But before you log on, here's a reality check: The odds aren't in your favor, social-sciences researcher Jeana Frost says.
"People respond to so many attributes that have to be experienced," she says. "You can't just find someone compatible by using a search button."
Some sites such as eHarmony and Chemistry.com use complex formulas to pair up their members. But critics say it's fuzzy math. These formulas are kept under wraps for competitive reasons, so outside experts aren't able to vet them. And while many people think these surveys will help them find a match, "no one knows if they actually work," says Robert Epstein, the author of the upcoming book "Making Love: How Couples Learn to Love and You Can Too." If you really want individualized matchmaking, experts say, then consider a personal matchmaker. They're more expensive, with services starting around $1,000, but they know their clients well and take responsibility for any mismatches.
Whether or not Price's date was being truthful, deception and courting have been going steady for a long time. So it's no surprise some online suitors stretch the truth to get a date. For example, some users lie about their age to show up in more search results, which is why there are eight times as many 29-year-old women than 30- to 34-year-old women on dating sites, according to a study by Epstein.
But most lies in the online dating universe are pretty small, says Nicole Ellison, an assistant professor at Michigan State University. "People tend to describe their ideal self rather than how they really are," she says. That accounts for adding an extra inch to your height or saying you love to work out when you really haven't hit the gym in weeks. Bottom line: Keep an open mind, since setting your search fields too narrowly can eliminate a lot of possible matches, Ellison says.
Unfortunately, there's no way for members of a site to tell whether the profiles they're seeing belong to paid subscribers or to mere browsers who've posted a profile but haven't joined -- and thus aren't accessible. That means when you get no reply, you're left scratching your head: Was she not interested or just unable to respond to you? Either way, Epstein chalks it up to one of the basic hazards of Internet dating: "It's very easy to get hurt or be disappointed online."
So how many posted profiles at paid dating sites belong to active members? Experts say that, at best, subscriber services convert between 10% and 15% of browsers into members. That means 85% or more of the profiles at a subscriber site could belong to unreachable browsers. The problem is, there's no incentive for the sites to change, since the more profiles they list, the better they look. How to avoid the heartbreak? One way is to stick to free sites such as Plentyoffish.com or OKCupid, where every profile you see belongs to a member.
The romance scam is the most prevalent on dating sites and the hardest to stop, Erickson says. It happens when male members start getting messages from a too-attractive-to-be-true woman who says she's from a distant location. The two will hit it off a little too quickly, then she'll want to come visit but needs a plane ticket or money for gas. The mark sends her the money -- and never hears from her again.
When you click with someone online, "it's easy to say, 'Wow, this could turn into something,'" says Erickson, but if someone asks you for money, that should send up an immediate red flag. Another giveaway: When a profile says the person is local but you find out she's actually in Eastern Europe.