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avad ([personal profile] avad) wrote2003-06-04 11:42 pm

LJ Match

I had assumed that this LJ Match thing that was spreading like wildfire was a program that filtered through all the interest lists of LJ users to give you links to the people who score the most interest matches with you.
I was terribly disappointed to see the questionnaire...one of my pet peeves is this a or b, true/false crap that seems untrue and vague and useless whichever way you answer. Ergh. I started it out of curiousity and then gave up in disgust. Does anyone know if what I mentioned in the first sentence exists? THAT seems quite simple and logical.

beard pulling

[identity profile] rokkitz.livejournal.com 2003-06-04 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
another thought... isn't this in a way what civil energetics is for? protocols for communication, like, between people or something? hmm...

Re: beard pulling

[identity profile] avad.livejournal.com 2003-06-04 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
The LJ Match as I found out is really a dating service. or aspires to be. Based on a really tiresome questionnaire. I'm just curious as to a simple filter that would find through matching the interests on our user info pages, the people with the MOST matches in common. I mean who knows,there might be someone out there with exactly and All your pledged interests...down to the most silly and obscure. Wouldn't you be curious? Meet your doppelganger kindof thing.;)
I like to search through interest...but I only know how to do it one at a time.

Re: beard pulling

[identity profile] anansi133.livejournal.com 2003-06-05 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
I don't have a very concise idea about civilenergetics and matchmaking. I have this itchy feeling that matchmaking isn't "meta" enough for inclusion in the CE 'canon', although a robust meta-language should be able to address it as a subset of a larger equation. Where/how do people meet? What's the social attrition rate? Could we be less isolated in our lifestyles?

In the same way that a water filter claims to address water pollution, or earplugs claim to address noise pollution, matchmaking services claim to address lonliness. All three claims are fraudulent, the trick is to define the pollution/problem in such a way that it can be addressed beyond the symtom-management approach.

...at least, that's my first take on it. This smells like a good topic!

Re: beard pulling

[identity profile] rokkitz.livejournal.com 2003-06-06 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
not really "matchmaking" per se, but i'm generalizing the concept to an improvement in person-to-person communication... and i consider anything that improves the quality of communication relates back to that whole consciousness calibration thing... "matchmaking" shouldn't be synonomous with "dating", although they are related, matchmaking functions at a higher level (maybe not quite meta)... hmm...

Re: beard pulling

[identity profile] avad.livejournal.com 2003-06-06 08:51 am (UTC)(link)
aHA! I see where you'ge going with this now...and yes,I agree. that's about all I can manage to put into words right now;).