Match.com Dating Service “A Big Tease”?

Does Match.com ‘stick it to the lovelorn’ by leaving inactive profiles on their website?

So says a lawsuit launched by a single Brooklyn man seeking $5 million in damages.

Attorney Norah Hart says her client, Sean McGinn, is hoping that the “crushed feeling” will not be felt by others hoping for a reply to winks and emails that never come.

Personally, I think that when you join Match.com, or most other online dating services, the requirement to send, receive and reply to emails and other introduction messages is spelled out quite clearly. And what does an “inactive member” look like? I would think that if you haven’t been logging in for 6 months then you’re inactive but I have an account with another major dating service that has not been active for years and I still receive the odd notification that someone has sent me a message.

So be it… Match.com does show with their profiles when someone has last logged in, beyond that, love is left to fate, I think, just as two people crossing opposite sides of the street never meet.

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