Big Church??

Did they really mean Big Joke???

This is a pathetic joke of a site. Too bad the rating system doesn't start in the negative numbers, say minus 100, because that's about what I would give Big Church.

First of all, what "Christian" site would allow same sex matching? I'm not being homophobic, I'm simply stating that the Bible, which I believe to be the word of God, does not condone homosexuality, so why in the world would a Christian site aid in same sex matching? Sounds to me like a bunch of non-Christians found a niche market to exploit for whatever they can get out of it.

But maybe that's one of the reasons that the site is as it is. Christians seem to be staying away, or moving away, in droves.

I did a quick search for women close to me. Get this:

The search turned up 50 profiles.

Of the 50, 45 were active either "within 3 months" or not active in excess of three months. I believe "within three months" actually means between two and three months, so 90%, yes, 90% of the potential matches/contacts I received have not visited the site for two months or longer. I don't know about you, but if I'm paying for a service, I'm going to be logging in every day, two days maximum. If most people are like me, those two-monthers are totally inactive and totally disinterested. And totally unreachable. And totally useless to a payng member, no matter how enticing their profiles.

Of the remaining 5, two are "standard members", which means that they cannot read an e-mail sent to them. Unless they are so desparate that they'd be willing to fork over $20 to upgrade just to read an incoming e-mail, they too are unreachable.

Boiled down, 3 profiles out of 50, 6%, are contactable and able to respond, if interested.

Making matters worse--is that possible??--until I fork over money, I, as a standard member, cannot even read the profiles of the three potentially contactable women. That's nuts! Why would the site not allow potential paying members to check out the few who are available? That would be what I see as the only enticement to get someone to join.

So let's summarize. Of the 50 profiles presented to me, 45 were useless because they are inactive. Of the five remaining, two are useless because, even though they are still, maybe, interested and logging in, they cannot read an e-mail message. Of the remaining three, which are viable contacts, I can gain not a glint of information about any of them until I pay $20 to join.

No thank you, Big Joke!

P.S. I owe an apology to e-Harmony. Before I discovered Big Church, I was convinced that e-Harmony was the biggest ripoff I would ever come across, should I live to be one hundred years old. Big Church showed me that I was mistaken.