I Outsourced Love: Hilarious Messages From My Outsourced Online Dating Account

OkCupid, Match, eHarmony, Tinder, Zoosk...you name them. Online dating is a modern phenomenon, and it is common to hear success stories about people saying "We met online". So why are so many people's online dating experiences terrible? The idea was supposed to be about meeting people quickly. It has become the opposite. Online dating has some standards, whereby a person messages another person. After a relay of an undetermined amount of messages, the two eventually decide to meet up or lose interest. For many, this is the longest, most pointless part of the entire process. These people joined an online dating site in order to actually meet people in person. David Fitzgerald had the same problem, and decided to outsource love. As an entrepreneur, Fitzgerald is used to utilizing outsourcing websites. One dateless night after wasting numerous hours messaging relatively unresponsive he decided to outsource this task! The job advertisement read as follows. "ONLINE DATE MANAGER: I am looking for a dedicated person to manage my online dating account. You will be responsible for messaging potential dates. I will be paying a per-message fee, in blocks of 25 messages. Each message will need to be between 100 and 125 words. Each message will need to be unique, based on the person that the message is being sent to. Creativity and style are important." Needless to say, there were dozens of applicants from all over the world, including China, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russia and the Czech Republic. Fitzgerald was able to hire a handful of applicants that to manage his online date messaging. Contained in this book are the hilarious messages.