tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1083571854597923820.post4701522937823363680..comments2024-03-28T03:20:57.103-04:00Comments on A Working Man's Diary: Say What's Up To "FirstSighter", The Website That Sets Up Dates Based Solely On AppearanceDub Jeezyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08389785139913968202noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1083571854597923820.post-58659062510966830782012-04-16T13:58:58.190-04:002012-04-16T13:58:58.190-04:00Hmmm. They quoted you on their fb page as a posit...Hmmm. They quoted you on their fb page as a positive review - but you seem to think that the website is complete bs. While I am not pro or con firstsighter, I do know a little more about its concept design than you seem to! The point is that you rate others based on looks, and you are rated by others. This rating is anonymous. You can't decide that you're a 10, and filter out everyone 9 and below. You NEVER find out what you've been rated, and you don't know the average rating of anyone else on the site. The developers have designed it, however, so that the website DOES know these things. You are therefore only presented with people who have been rated at or near the same rating that you have been given, which matches you to others in your "group-level" of attractiveness.<br /><br />Though this for me is not the point - I usually don't want to start chatting with someone about a potential date unless I've met that person at work, in school, through friends, online is not my scene - you must admit that for many of the young, hip, outgoing crowds, that first, "Ooh, she's cute" is the thought process that happens, not whether or not you will date someone based on their intelligence. If you are the kind of person who walks up to a bar and buys a girl a drink without knowing anything about her (which, I would argue, is standard the world over), then this website does the same thing for those who are more shy about being rejected. Since you aren't presented with those who are much above your level of "attractiveness" physically, the possibility that you will be rejected based on this is lessened.<br /><br />Do I think it's a cop-out for asking someone and braving the fear of rejection? Yes. Do I think it'll be used by the Google-glasses crowd who spend their entire lives within the trap of social networking while retreating further and further from uncertain and potentially uncomfortable situations with actual and real human beings? Yes. But do I think that it could be a potentially successful business up there competing with Match.com, eHarmony, OKCupid, JDate, and the like? Again, yes. Whether or not you like it has no bearing on this article and this review, which serves to debase the website as essentially useless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com