Andy ([info]anarkystic) wrote,
@ 2005-07-03 04:16:00
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Facebook For The Rest Of Us

Today I discovered a horrible, horrible thing. Consumating.com. Wow, yeah, wrong site to put into my hands. As close as I can tell, the premise is: dating site + tags + clever gimmicks to get participation out of you = Dating 2.0. Yes, I want to conquer it, this is pretty much what I always used the internet for, but now it is so streamlined.

Of course, this means you all need to join and give me love. Don’t worry, I’ll give love right back at ya.


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[info]fraunahgooyen
2005-07-03 04:32 am UTC (link)
HOLY CRAP!!! Indie boys!

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that's why I still love my Facebook..
[info]echoing
2005-07-03 04:49 am UTC (link)
You have to pay to send messages? Whores!

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Re: that's why I still love my Facebook..
[info]anarkystic
2005-07-03 04:59 am UTC (link)
wow, points for you for being up this late :)

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[info]leaningfizz
2005-07-03 10:56 am UTC (link)
You joined a dating site.

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[info]anarkystic
2005-07-03 11:07 am UTC (link)
and how!

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[info]trufflepig
2005-07-03 11:52 am UTC (link)
here's for hoping that you get laid by the entire internet.

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i wasn't going to..
[info]_bendmyspoon_
2005-07-03 12:01 pm UTC (link)
but i'm that bored..

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[info]sillygwailo
2005-07-03 06:55 pm UTC (link)
Weird, I thought you would have been all over this in March. I even had a profile up on whatever day it was I linked to it in del.icio.us. Of course, the real Dating 2.0 sites are those that aren't explicitly about dating. I'm thinking of Flickr actually, which, among other things, is a Web 2.0 online dating site.

See also: http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html

dating sites currently suck far worse than search did before Google. They all use the same simple-minded model. They seem to have approached the problem by thinking about how to do database matches instead of how dating works in the real world. An undergrad could build something better as a class project. And yet there's a lot of money at stake. Online dating is a valuable business now, and it might be worth a hundred times as much if it worked.

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[info]anarkystic
2005-07-03 07:18 pm UTC (link)
I'm not really much of a dating site person, that's generally what I've always used LiveJournal for, but this one was just too clever to pass up.

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[info]inkyviolet
2005-07-04 01:01 pm UTC (link)
andy!! you can't have two pictures up of you wearing the same shirt!! you'll look like a dirty hobo... bloggable you may be, but you are far more stylish than that.

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*coughcough*
(Anonymous)
2005-07-05 06:21 pm UTC (link)
http://www.consumating.com/profiles/idlethreat

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Re: *coughcough*
[info]anarkystic
2005-07-05 07:18 pm UTC (link)
you're incredible :)

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