Dating.Digital.Xperience

One of my favorite hobby’s is messing around with the plethora of web 2.0 applications that are invading the web (slowly). This time I happened to stumble across WooMe.com, which is a video chat version of speed dating. Yeah I know, I’m a loser and I just had to try it out just for kicks’ sake. I was impressed on the simplicity of the layout and the fact that users could not message each other, unless they stated some contact information in their profiles.

My experiences were rather pleasant (yeah I’m totally working for this company) in fact I met some cute women from around the United States. But besides the “hey how do you like WooMe?” or whatever topic they state in the room name, conversations are really just a “HI! and BYE!” set up (considering 20 seconds of a 60 second conversation are used to get the web cams and mics working). So pick your topic of conversation wisely, short and concise (and obviously enticing haha). But honestly its not like I’m going to ever meet these people in real life, and how awkward would that be, forget the facebook effect especially if the speed date went bad.

In the end I have found that I will probably use this web app as a confidence booster as I posted a very cute picture of myself and I love getting my daily five WooMe invites from attractive women (and not so attractive women) around my age (or are they paid or fake? Hmm…). Its also a fun time-waster to meet people around the world in a such a hastily unique fashion. I think the ideas behind this project are genuine and will push for new forms of communication and bring about world peace (but that’s just my hope). I think its great to push for more interactive communication instead of people hiding behind text and profiles all the time, it is now a visual confrontation.