Allowing yourself some screening room
The time for due diligence is before you do someone something else. Inevitably, there’s an app for that:
Even though dating should be about having fun and meeting new people, it’s also about finding out if this person is potential mate material. I mean you want to know if the person sitting across from you has had serious run-ins with the law or has picked their nose since age seven. Thanks to this new iPhone and Android app, you might not be able to check about the nose picking habit, but you can get the deets on just about everything else.
Date Check is an app that lets users pull up all those juicy secrets that you want to know, but might be too shy to ask on the first or second date. With a flick of the wrist you can find out if a person has a criminal history via the sleeze detector. You can also see if they own real estate, or if they’re living with someone — say a spouse they might have forgotten to mention.
I’m thinking that the slogan — “Lookup before you hookup” — is just a hair off-putting, at least to me.
Francis W. Porretto »
9 February 2010 · 4:11 pm
I believe Steve Guttenberg and Rosanna Arquette have already covered this.
fillyjonk »
9 February 2010 · 6:17 pm
Being an adult is far less romantic than I imagined it to be as a child.