So I’m sitting here minding my own business when an email rolls through… “Quick question: have you been happy with your experience on OkCupid? I ask because…” Um, OkCupid? I’ve NEVER signed up for an online dating site, never even surfed one except that one time we found out an “IRL” friend had a profile with Yahoo, but that’s another story.

So I click through and it doesn’t even ask me for a password and I get to my inbox and read the message. The full thing reads:

Quick question: have you been happy with your experience on OkCupid? I ask because I just noticed that you haven’t answered any match questions and you’re probably not showing up in people’s searches as much as you could be if you answered even just a few. (which you can do right here.)

Anyway, I’d love to get any feedback you might have on how we can make OkCupid better for you. It would be especially good to know if answering match questions helps you find better matches.

So I assume it’s from an admin/creator of the site and I’m left thinking two things. 1) Good, I’m glad I’m not showing up in searches and 2) Who the crap signed me up for OkCupid???

The email came to the address I only use with this website. It’s where my comments arrive and from where I answer if I don’t know the person and need to reply. So I go to reply to the message, right, and OkCupid tells me it won’t deliver my message until I answer some questions towards my profile. So I have to do that, too. I respond to the message with “I didn’t even know I had an OkCupid account. I’m married.” Quite happy, too, I might add!

So then I surf around. The site has my name, my age, my basic location (though not exact, within an hour of me) and it says I’ve taken one test. At this point, I’m thinking someone was playing a joke on me and signed me up for this. It takes me a bit but then I find out what test I supposedly took.

Guess what? I DID take that test.

Recently, a very dear blog friend whom I love very much posted the results of a quiz she took. I was late to the party but a few days ago, I took the test, too., but never commented about my results ’cause her comments were already closed. So I realize now that the other day I read too fast and didn’t have to sign up for an account to see my results, but I did. Only, that was on helloquizzy.com, NOT OkCupid. So who’s doing the screwing around? I’m looking at the same signup form again and I don’t see ANYWHERE where it tells you that by getting a helloquizzy account you’ll also end up with an OkCupid. It says you can log in with an existing OkCupid account if you want but that’s it. There’s also a section, I notice, that says it’s for pretty graphs and it asks you what your sexual orientation is, your status in a relationship (or not), and your location.

So then, apparently, helloquizzy takes this information that you supplied to them for a helloquizzy account (including that info that’s just for graphs) and then transfers it right over to OkCupid and signs you up for an account whether you want one or not without notifying you!

Isn’t that just downright dirty?

I think so.

So yeah, then, because I’m completely bored and watching Men In Black right now, I come to blog it. Whatever. Off to find account deleting information now for both helloquizzy and OkCupid.

Addendum: Oh, nice. When deleting my OkCupid site, it said to me: “Leaving already? We’re sorry to see you go. It’s a big, scary Internet out there. Stop back soon!” Uh… big, scary Internet? What the heck??

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