I admit that I only used eHarmony for about a month, unlike those who used it for months, so my experiences were limited. But I withdrew my membership mighty quickly for a reason. I kept being matched with older, white men. I have no problem with that, except that older, white men don't typically want to date young, black women like myself. Hoping for the best, I decided to go ahead and communicate with these matches, but when I began communicating with some of them, we clearly had little in common. I'm not even upset that my matches eventually ended communication with me - it was bound to happen. My annoyance is really with eHarmony for hooking me up with people who clearly had little in common with me.

Even more annoyingly, I was displeased to find that while I checked the site daily there were only a 3 or 4 days where eHarmony was able to find matches for me. I spent 3x less on other dating sites, where I was able to meet a plethora of new people. A little later, I tried out Yahoo! Personals and at least I actually met a few people, made a few friends, and I did go on a few dates. There was no luck like that with eHarmony - not even a phone call.