True.com has colonized sex so effectively, dating sites that once mistook sex for neutral domain are now scrambling for the next Holy Grail of human characteristics.
So in its ongoing quest to find a personality, Match.com resorts to the webcam, a tactic shared by those bastard cousins of dating sites, amateur porn purveyors. “See who’s on Match.com right now FREE!” a banner bubbles while running videos of attractive people drinking coffee and taking off their shoes.
The effort is unsettling. We don’t know if it’ll help draw hot single traffic, but we did stare for a long time. This is mainly because we harbor the quiet hope people will forget they’re being watched and do something to satisfy our voyeuristic desire to witness something childish but unsavoury, like ball-scratching or nose-picking.
But these things didn’t happen. Maybe they should. Maybe that would turn the ads into winners. It’s hard to tell at this point and we don’t see much hope for the future because Match.com changes campaigns faster than Mr. Rogers changed his sweaters.
