[1]An eager publicist emailed me today about profile wiz [2], a new service for $4.75 that promises to ghostwrite an enticing online dating profile in under five minutes. That would have come in handy for Steve, a recent “admirer” from Match.com. Steve’s profile was sketchy, and a little sarcastic, and in writing about the last movie he saw, he mentioned Hungover, which I’m assuming is really The Hangover, unless he’s talking about some porn film. I recently posted about Dating Dealbreakers [3], and a typo is not one of them. But I find that profiles provide clues (whether intentionally or not) and the idea that a surrogate would tell our stories for us, misses the point.
Would you hire a ghostwriter for your dating profile?
(Photo: Laziness by Anton Senkou-Melnik [1])