Online Dating: Would You Pay Someone To Cyrano de Bergerac Your Profile?

by Anna Breslaw

For the inarticulate among us, this new online dating service bodes well! For the rest of us? Maybe not so much.

 

 A new website called PenMyProfile is advertising help for those with online dating profile "writer's block." They offer two packages: the "Spit And Polish," which makes small adjustments to the profile you already have (£15), or "The Full Works," a profile completely re-written just for you (£25). Both options request a questionnaire in order to avoid false advertising--e.g. if a dude's really into football and Slim Jims, he probably won't end up with an Emily Dickinson quotation. (Unless he does, in which case: call me.)

 On the one hand, haven't we all helped that dude at work curate his "Favorite Movies" section? (Tip: The Big Lebowski is always a big hit.) Sometimes non-mouth-breathing, completely appealing people find it difficult to write about themselves, and maybe you'd skip right over that potential date's profile without some doctoring. But ladies can be inarticulate too--it could also be employed to help one attract the precise kind of person you're looking for, as opposed to, um, the opposite of that.



But, on the other hand... what if you actually fell in love with the PenMyProfile writer who gave your dude's profile The Full Works, but didn't know it? And what if he fell in love with you too? And what if the day you found out, he was "mortally wounded by someone who dropped a huge log on his head from a tall building?"
 

 :( :(

Would you ever pay someone to rewrite your online dating profile? Would you be annoyed if you found out the guy you were dating had?

Other online dating WTFs:
Online Dating: ...And Now We Can Creep On LinkedIn
*The Online Dating Profile Video You Have to See to Believe (Seriously, Stop Whatever You're Doing and Watch This Now)
*Afternoon Funny: Messages From Match
*Dating Online: Get Ready to Meet the Fake Girlfriends!

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