First, my tail started wagging, and then I started to bark with excitement. The questions could be even weirder than how I felt.

Such as: “If you discovered upon death you must reincarnate into an animal, but are only allowed a broad choice as follows, which would you select?

Internet dating has evolved from asking a person of interest "A/S/L?

" in an ISP's chat room to browsing dozens upon dozens of profiles at dedicated online dating services—Ok Cupid among them.

I’ve been recovering as a socially awkward person for as long as I can remember.

And I enjoy talking about relationships more than most folks.

We can tell when a profile is created, from where -- and we're not going to say" the location, Yagan said. Since the leaks began in July, Assange has fanned his own celebrity, portraying himself as an on-the-run muckraker eluding global government heavies who wish to do him harm for outing their dirty secrets.

We may even see someone we know searching through profiles, but it’s pretty much like we don’t see them.

All in all, he seemed to think he was a pretty good catch. "This is real, as best we can tell," Ok Cupid co-founder Sam Yagan said, adding that the profile was not fabricated by the site as a publicity stunt in the wake of Assange's international fame.

So that December, Assange, then 36, evidently created a profile on the free dating site Ok "We have manual and automatic systems in place to prevent fraud.

You have to answer a gazillion questions to make the site effective, and so do prospective mates.

With each additional answer, your percentage of finding a match increases, and the same holds true for your potential match.