Jphone:
But that is not what they have become. They have become resumes to rival any I have seen in the business world (and in these days I have seen a lot). When was the last time you looked at a girls resume and it didn’t contain superflous data?
My mother just showed me a girls resume that was exalting everything she did, every honor and prize she had won, from second grade. This is not the only one I have seen, just the last one. I personally refused to go out with that girl because I did not want to go out with a girl who was vain enough to place such information down (or allowed her mother to place that information on her resume, as I eventually found out from the shadchan).
If it is only a bio, then it should contain the girls name, her immediate family (not grandparents, uncles second cousins twice removed, etc….), where she went to school (college, seminary, high school, and elementary (but I think that is too much), two or three sentences describing the girl and another two or three in what type of boy she is looking for.
On the bottom it should contain two or three references and THATS IT!
It should not say what the parents do, the life story of all her siblings, her “yichus” going back 6 generations and detailing each persons life, every minuscule detail of her life. You are dating the GIRL, not her family. If you want toi find out all this information this is what we call dating.
At the very least it would give the daters something to talk about and find interesting. Instead they go on dates knowing everything about each other before the two daters even get to talk or see each other. This, by the way, is a great BUSINESS tactic, to know everything about the customer before they walk through the door. However, from my personal point of view, it is NOT a good personal/relationship tactic to have.