If I could rate it zero I would.

Truthfully, I found the match experience to be awful. But it taught me alot about online dating. I was on for 3 months then cancelled. I had to. It was just too much drama for me. I was contacted by about 50 men in the first month or so. I am a professional person and used to reading resumes. I screened heavily, I e-mailed cautiously and then met with 10. This is what I found.

Many people are extremely lonely and don't have much of a life and expect match to be the cure all for that. The whole "soul mate" myth is alive and well. Almost, everyone I met believed the commercials and was "desperate" to find "The One" which added a lot of anxiety and urgency to their interactions with me. All 10 supposedly "laid back guys" I met were like a bad romantic homing device on steroids.

The men I interacted with were very, very emotionally needy and some down right unstable. Many did not initiate their divorces and even years later - were looking for confirmation from the outside that they were OK. Very insecure. Emotionally crippled.

They came from every socio-economic background. Lawyers, Investment Bankers, Businesses owners....regular working guys. They posted good pictures, they wrote good profiles...When we met they were also all very aggressive and would not take a polite "thank you, but I don't think we are a good match" as an answer.

Some didn't stop calling... they didn't stop e-mailing. They stalked me on the site - watching to see when I was on just to IM me and confront me about what I thought was "wrong" with them.

P.S. I never dated any of these guys more than once, so we didn't have a "relationship" for them to confront me on.

I am a nice person...I was very gentle about my "no thank you". I was not on match to hurt anybody's feelings. 100% took it personally. It was not pretty. But that is because they expect each person to be the answer to their prayers....that is too much presure for me...I just wanted to go to a movie with a nice person. Being someone's savior was not on my agenda.

I think if you think of it as a huge people warehouse with no checks, balences or promise of any type of truth in advertising ....in which anything goes you may have a more realistic idea of what you are in for.

First, there are no checks, so married people and people actively living with women who troll the site late at night to score...abound.

Next, there is no guarantee of truthfullness. I was lied to about height, weight, employment, age by a lot of years! and degree of "singleness".

There is no guarantee of mental stability...two of these ten gentleman stalked me online...and would not stop. One ( a professional person) bragged about dumping a girl from the site he had slept with who "sucked in bed" (he told me this on our first date).

Another had huge financial problems and told me on the first date he was looking for a wife "to stabilize" his home and care for his three children ages 24 to 16 who still lived at home - I will not describe his home situation as revealed to me but all three children had serious mental health issues. If I wrote this in a book no one would believe me! Even Match was appalled when I told them that when I cancelled.

He continues on the site looking for a wife to shoulder his finances and children.

Another texted me non-stop for days. One told me he didn't need Viagra and could go for hours (he said this on first date). One cried when he told me he was widowed four years before....another called me up to make our first date drunk and incoherent.

If you have the stomach for meeting some potentially sketchy people to maybe find "The One" 100 or more dates later, maybe. But for me peace of mind is more valuable. I opted out of match.

Their customer service person who cancelled me said she didn't blame me. Would you?