iLet’s imagine that you are in a strange city for a night or two. Maybe you are away for work, or on a vacation, either way you want to meet someone local for some no-nonsense fun. You could go to a bar and hope to pull, you could spend hours getting to know someone and then still not strike lucky, or you could go to a club, spend a lot and come away empty handed. Got an iPhone? Well, then you don’t need to waste time again. Not when you’ve got an add-on that will let you cruise from the palm of your hand.
Take Grindr for example (grindr.com). This is a new company, based in LA, California, that is set up specifically to provide a service for guys, gals and bi-folk looking for a date. Basically it is a social networking application for your iPod, Apple iPhone or iPod Touch, and it is free. You sign in, get the necessary application and then start using it. You’ll find the download and instructions on the site.
And once you have it you simply launch it, view the nearest guys to you (or gals etc.) and the you can start checking profiles and viewing pics as this device lets you upload information and images too – so anyone can see all about you, and whatever pics you’ve decided to display. When you find someone you like you use the ‘chat’ facility to start instant messaging and here you can also send extra photos. There are other cosmetic functions too, to do with the way the thing looks and runs, but the main spine, the important functions, are all there.
So, this means that with Grindr you can simply look to see who is in your unfamiliar city, send a message and a pic and say ‘up for it tonight?’ and then, hopefully, get a reply straight back. No more hanging around bars, waiting to be drunk enough for the ugliest of guys to look cute.
But Grindr isn’t all; there are others. I found rippll.com/purpll (not the most memorable of titles, it’s this current fad for missing letters, like Flickr and so on – it confuses the hell out of me.) But think Purple – or purpll – and you’ll be ok.
Purpll is another social networking site that offers you the chance to find new and hot friends instantly. I have to say that I didn’t find the site as easy to use as the one I mentioned above, mainly because there were no obvious instructions – though the colour was nicer. But the brief intro should be enough to show you what to do – which is to sign up, download the application and then start using it; but I didn’t find out exactly what the application did, as I did with Grindr.
I did though find lists, in the phone style side box, of guys who were already registered. And I could vote for how hot they were according to the face pic that was shown. I was also being told who had recently become friends with whom, in this small selection of members, so I guess nothing is going to be kept private. The sign up page was very simple too; you simply put in your basic details, including your email address, and while you wait for your password etc. to come back to you there’s the chance to start playing with your profile.
So, both Grindr and Purpll are easy to use, both give you the chance to have mobile dating wherever you go, both let you add profiles and pics, and both are free and fun to use. Which one you go for may depend on what device you favour, but both look as cool as each other and both will ultimately save you a lot of time, money and effort when you’re hot to trot.
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