Got an email the other day from some British magazine writer, asking me if I ever met anyone who might use Excel spreadsheet for dating. She will read one of the stories have been written about how to keep running your dates, I hope can I connect with Dieter spreadsheet.
I didn't think much of it until I got the Internet, I stumbled upon a myriad stories about axsilgati (sbridgati? datigati?), The most recent dating scandal to rock the online dating world.
Apparently, some poor sap again in New York (aka David Merkur, a 28-year-old with a bit of organization), erred in saying a woman was out with that keep all of his online dating in an Excel spreadsheet. And not just any table data — one that featured the names and email addresses, images, categories 0-10 for "appearance," comments on communications, and reviews for meet-ups, etc.
This in itself isn't exactly the most at the top. A bit wonky and anal, maybe, but not stupid. But after the request date de jour in Merkur if he would send her file (apparently, were both heavy Excel users), and he did.
When the paper began to hit the fan.
Date de jour instantly transmit detailed spreadsheet eerily a few friends, who sent it to their friends, so they ended up in its entirety on Jezebel, show ABC News today, "the Huffington Post", and who knows, maybe Portland sometime in the near future ("a spreadsheet on it!")
According to another, one of the many potential dates online Merkur's even consider legal action, against banking but against Miss trostoorthi, a woman posted a spreadsheet around, since they cause a lot of grief. Apparently, Miss trostoorthi redact any personal information such as real names, telephone numbers, email addresses, etc before she referred to, Oh, I don't know, her closest personal 6,000,000.
"I've got a lot of invitations from random people saying, ' Oh, you're 9.5 '," a woman said, "ABC News, referring to the high rating given to him by Merkur spreadsheet. "I think the guy is really nice," she goes on. "Never met him and I don't think he did a bad thing. Was ... In an attempt to keep himself and systems ... "For women that cheat sheet, though," why she would send it to the entire world? "Women need to know."It was a really dumb. My face is plastered everywhere now. I didn't find it. I was just thinking that you use Match.com. "
Needless to say, the brosbridshit movement dating now is gaining ground. In the New York Daily News "today, author" Kaplan "outed himself Porter and his obsessive dating habits, and admitted that he not only uses spreadsheet for dating, but" spreadsheets to track my finances, books I've read, the countries you've visited, where groups of friends dinner together. "
Not yet enough to use a spreadsheet — or pie chart or Venn diagram — but certainly I talked to highly organized types who either keep a spreadsheet or a special journal or Word document or some sort of cheat sheet to keep from getting firefighters and financiers mixed up (as if). If you are Dieter serious on the Internet (i.e., you're meeting new people at least three times a week), you have some sort of system even if skraol Sharpie on your Palm. Otherwise you can end forgetting names and professions or the fact that Grandma/sister/pet your date just died or celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday or are currently in dancing with the stars and eventually looking — and feeling — like a jerk.
Personally, I don't think it's especially creepy or DAUCHY to track information your dating — even subjective information "face nice wood" but "Gabi; one for me" (feedback from detailed notes Merkur 's). This is not a stranger to add excessive anal touches such as color coding, bold-faced type to indicate the prospects for especially hot. The important thing is to make sure that your little black book — or spreadsheets a little black – remains safely tucked away on your hard drive, and your underpants drawer or your brain if you have confidence issues (which are now my guess many software engineers one men banking).
Unless, of course, goes viral with your love life part of your master plan for more dates. In this case, in my hat to you, "spreadsheet"! Way to work the system. ; )
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