COURIER POST — Dec 20 — Technological dating has finally spun out of control and there is now a movement under way — by both large companies and two-geeks-in-a-basement-start-ups — to turn our cell phones into matchmakers. Mobile dating is already more popular than Internet dating in places like Japan. All you need to post a profile and picture on Webdate, the mobile dating leader, is a Web-ready camera phone and $3.99 a month. Then there's Dodgeball, a service where users make a list of "crushes" based on online pictures. Then, when they go out to the bars, they send "check-in" text messages to Dodgeball to find out if a crush has checked in from another bar nearby. If so, the crush instantly receives a picture and profile of the admirer via cell. Zogo enables users to search through profiles and then speak over the phone through a service that doesn't reveal their numbers. Bluetooth dating is known as "toothing", "bluejacking" and "snarfing". It enables your phone to detect singles currently in the neighborhood. SMSGenie is a mobile dating program with no pictures and no profiles, just random texts sent to you from random women and men. 6 million Americans reportedly mobile-date.
Mark Brooks: Location Based Services could lead to a significant paradigm shift in online dating eventually.
3 thoughts on “Mobile Dating Makes Cell Phone use More Obnoxious”
Before long telephones may be designed and modeled to serve as sex aids for the truly desperate. I read your piece thinking someone will be so preoccupied with his telephone dating that he or she will never notice the real live someone who comes walking past. But then this is a new service and it may yet prove its relevance and not be as insipid as it first appears.
Obnoxious (adj.): Very annoying or objectionable; offensive or odious /// causing disapproval or protest.
Dating on the mobile is about having fun (easy to use and provide instant gratification!) rather than developing long term relationships. “Studies into usability have proven that users do not want a simple replication of the online dating experience on their phone but will demand complementary capabilities that utilise the unique capabilities of mobile devices. (e.g. always ‘on’ and locationally aware). ”
Kindest Regards,
Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina. ardenghifer@gmail.com
Google’s Dodgeball.com Service: Mobile Phone Dating
Dodgeball.com – as they describe it – is “mobile social software.” The site is designed to build social networks based on popular bar and restaurant locations. The site allows you and your network of Dodgeball friends to update each other on what bars …
Before long telephones may be designed and modeled to serve as sex aids for the truly desperate. I read your piece thinking someone will be so preoccupied with his telephone dating that he or she will never notice the real live someone who comes walking past. But then this is a new service and it may yet prove its relevance and not be as insipid as it first appears.
Obnoxious (adj.): Very annoying or objectionable; offensive or odious /// causing disapproval or protest.
Dating on the mobile is about having fun (easy to use and provide instant gratification!) rather than developing long term relationships. “Studies into usability have proven that users do not want a simple replication of the online dating experience on their phone but will demand complementary capabilities that utilise the unique capabilities of mobile devices. (e.g. always ‘on’ and locationally aware). ”
Kindest Regards,
Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
ardenghifer@gmail.com
Google’s Dodgeball.com Service: Mobile Phone Dating
Dodgeball.com – as they describe it – is “mobile social software.” The site is designed to build social networks based on popular bar and restaurant locations. The site allows you and your network of Dodgeball friends to update each other on what bars …