Murphy's Laws of Online Dating

Over the last few weeks, I haven't had the time to try out another dating site; the real world, both at work and in my spare time, has kept me quite busy.

So there's no review this time. But in order to stick to my 2-weekly schedule, I'm giving you something else instead - what I consider to be Murphy's laws of online dating.
As usual, this is from the perspective of a straight male.... although some of them hold for other perspectives as well.

Disclaimer: I have no ownership of the "Murphy's law" thing. (This should be obvious for everyone except intellectual property morons...)
Now that we have that out of the way, here comes the list.

1. The biggest proponent of online dating is the friend who has never done online dating.
2. If a dating site doesn't work for you, it looses a member.
   But if it does work for you, it looses two members.
   So it's better for a dating site to suck than to work.
   
3. Matching algorithms will match you to someone who hasn't been online for 3 weeks.
4. The profile you really like belongs to someone who forgot about her account.
5. Your carefully composed message of genuine interest... will get drowned in the messages from other guys, and be deleted unread.
6. If your friends know 1 person who met his or her lover online, they will conclude that "online dating works".
   If your friends know 10 people who have given up online dating in disgust, they will ignore this.
   
7. Every dating site considers itself "leading".
8. Every dating site considers itself "the Google of online dating".
9. Dating sites where you can't see the picture until you've chatted - have a magical attraction for ugly people.
10. Articles that criticize paid dating services are written by free dating services.
11. Articles that criticize free dating services are written by paid dating services.
12. Dating sites speak half-truths about everything from their number of members to the price of their serivces... and then tell their members to be honest to each other.

Anybody else have Murphy-worthy comments on online dating? Let me know!

Edit: Added the one about being honest. (May 19)