LJ Match

[avad]

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.

Comments

Re: beard pulling

[anansi133.livejournal.com]

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

[rokkitz.livejournal.com]

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

[avad.livejournal.com]

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;).