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Some websites are actually impossible to judge
Dear All,
There is a website category out there that is impossible to judge. This category: Dating websites. For someone out there, even the most craptastic dating website is perfect. Even the worst dating website probably caused a couple or two, who are out there, happy. For them, it was perfect, a match made in heaven to make a match made in heaven. Which is why dating websites,are in this category of impossible to judge websites. Who am I to frown upon others happiness?
Lucky for the one presented at the New York Tech Meetup, it was a wonderful dating website as both an idea about how to meet people to date and a conception of a design. It’s beautiful. It seems like a lot of fun to meet someone through dates you suggest. HowAboutWe.com seems to have interesting eyecandy galore (if you are based in NY) both in the guy department (even in the Jewish guy department, hi mom) and in the visuals of the website. And you definitely don’t feel locked into a boring profile (secret thing that my mom would like you to know! Love love love). Meanwhile, it is still a popularity grouping of insiders waiting to be, overblown by dates and people. Too many and people will be frustrated (again) (Eternal problem of all dating websites, eventually there are too many people who sign up. it creates too many choices, overwhelms people. it’s the same problem as not enough people, you end up feeling like there is little in the way of choice, and that you are stuck.)
The only fault of the website is that they don’t block people from messaging out their email addresses. (obvious, you need to force people to look at messages that so that you can charge)
Yet, does it make a good dating website? Who knows? For all of it’s amazing sophistication and at the same time cuteness, are people, you know, getting into relationships, and you know, dating, and you know, marrying? Always a useful metric! (how many dates have people been on that were successful? Not that anyone seems to know….)
And in case you are curious, I am totally trying to get a friend of mine to get a picture of me. Because yeah, who doesn’t want to be part of the awesome dating website??? Rather than the unawesome one.