Computer Dating

Regarding Match.com, eHarmony and the variety of other computerized people-matching schemes, I've been skeptical about how long the relationships endure. If a company hires a person based on a resume, mistakes are made and sometimes the person doesn't fit. Consequently, the company dumps the person.

Whoever programs the people-matching computer has to make assumptions which may or may not be valid. Who knows? The criteria is a mystery to me but, even so, it's logical to believe that some are in error. For example, I contend that many people are disingenuous about their preference for taking long walks on beaches.

Furthermore, what happens when a glitch or bug or virus or a simple crash in a computer affects the results? I've also wondered about those instances where a match of two people was made by stray inductive voltage, an errant magnetic pulse or a software anomaly.

Nevertheless, even disregarding a presumed computer error rate, I'm convinced that machines can only produce a best guess of compatibility. Why? I would suggest that computers cannot possibly understand love because some apparently successful unions between two people make no sense.