ExRated is like a dating site, only the opposite of that. Instead of helping you perhaps get over an old relationship with a great new one, it fosters invective, gossip and paranoia.
Do you want to laugh today? Here’s how ExRated says people are using it:
• Networking through ex-girlfriends who date financial power-players or musicians (if you’ve been searching for that great drummer to complete your band…)
• Dating resume – date one model, you can date another according to George Costanza from Seinfeld.
• Break a girl’s heart, give her a good rating and recommend her to a friend (or “exfriend”.)
• Figure out what it is you really want by filling out a form of “why it didn’t work with this one.”
• Instead of having to listen to your single friends’ constant dating complaints, direct them to the site.
• Improve people’s dating manners by encouraging them to strive for a good rating.
Except this is insane bullshit. Nobody’s going to use this site for anything other than saying awful things about exes they hate. Some prime examples:
“After breaking up i was still in love with her and got to sleep in the room next to where she and her new man were f@!king. I hated it. yep “
“Kristen could be a good girlfriend if she wasn’t out of her freakin mind! when she told me she’d f@!ked 20 dudes before it was a rap! “
“She is a very good girlfriend if you spend every waking moment with her. She has a very strong dependency problem. Into threesomes!”
“Where to start? He lies A lot He sleeps with anything that moves ANYTHING! A lot. Oh and if you piss him off he has no problem attacking you”
Are these things true? Maybe. Could they be completely made up to embarrass and/or hurt the lives of the person in question? Of course. There’s no way to tell — but there’s name and real person attached to all of these comments, making it easy to spread defamatory crap about an ex. Maybe they dumped you because you suck, not because they’re a sociopathic whore disease pustule. And maybe it doesn’t matter, because I doubt this site will be widely used anyway. [ExRated]
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EckyThump
Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 12:03 PMSo let me get this strait! He/She breaks up with some one and decides to rip the poor beggars life to shreds just because they can? This site makes money from other peoples misery, and it’s just a bit of fun to do so? I’m not saying that social sites don’t have a place, but this sort of thing needs to be heavily self regulated to avoid causing enough invective in the spurned lover that they do something stupid! If they can’t or won’t self regulate, then they need to be shut down, before some one really gets hurt! #[
villainsoft
Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 1:16 PMpetty and vindictive, just like real-life relationships!
glennc
Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 2:05 PMwasn’t this on the movie “amazon women on the moon”? steve guttenburg and rosanna arquette scene where he comes around on a first date and she prints out his entire dating history… and this was BEFORE the internet.
Another Aaron
Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 2:22 PMWhenever people argue with me that society is progressing to the point where volume and type of sexual relations aren’t used to judge someone I refer them to the internet and say, no, we’re still prudish and backwards on the inside.
Thomas
Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 10:49 PM“maybe it doesn’t matter, because I doubt this site will be widely used anyway.”
And yet you publish an article telling the world about it? Seems counterintuitive.