I GOT PAID TO BE AN OKCUPID GHOSTWRITER
http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/4928-i-got-paid-to-be-an-okcupid-ghostwriter
Read the full article didn't feel like copy and pasting the whole thing.
By Daniel Hirsch
If you’re a straight woman who messaged a mustachioed software engineer from Mexico, or a straight guy who flirted online with a smiley elementary school teacher within the last year, there's a chance you were really aiming your digital pursuits at me. And if you're currently courting a professional, mid-30s Asian woman, read her witty quips carefully. They might come from a hired hand penning her responses.
I have committed dating fraud, but I did it to find love – not for myself, but for other people. And I did it for the money. I was an online dater for-hire, a courtship ghostwriter, a digital Cyrano de Bergerac.
In some ways, this is the “sharing economy” taken to its logical extremes, proving that with a little bit of cash, the Internet lets you outsource everything, even the intimate act of asking someone out.
For me, a queer male, logging into someone else's OkCupid account and sending messages as them, be it a straight man or a straight woman, was oddly thrilling. But the experience also made me wonder if we are a generation for whom the mores of courtship, and, ultimately love, are completely and utterly out of whack.