sam chalmersThe Daily Telegraph joins the scene
May 30th 2006 10:33
The Daily Telegraph circulated a similar article also in 2003 entitled ‘Perfect match, thanks to your mobile’ giving details of “Telstra [has been] examining "proximity dating" technology to go with mobile phones. It could be operational by Valentine's Day in 2004. With location mobile services, you put a profile of whom you'd like to meet and who you are into your mobile, and when you get within 100 metres of someone compatible the phone starts beeping. Profiles could include such things as age, eye and hair colour, height, likes and dislikes, star signs and what you're looking for in a partner. If you've got an MMS phone you can exchange photos, speak to the other person, decide where you want to meet, and even videoconference together. The service will work with existing technology using GPS and software from mobile phone carriers”.
Although this notion of ‘proximity dating’ is yet to surface the popularity of mobile phone and other technological services as a means of interaction with the opposite sex is escalating – which suggests those beeps signaling romantic matches every 100 metres may be in the not too distant future. It reduces a number of risks including shyness, inability to put together a sentence, stumbling over your words and, frankly, making a complete fool of yourself, plus reducing the sting of rejection. These articles, as well as programs such as ‘Single Girls’ from the UK – four single women spend seven weeks on a dating frenzy in London, using all new technological services to snag the man of their dreams - are testament to the uncontrollable and often successful spree of 21st century dating modus operandi.
Although this notion of ‘proximity dating’ is yet to surface the popularity of mobile phone and other technological services as a means of interaction with the opposite sex is escalating – which suggests those beeps signaling romantic matches every 100 metres may be in the not too distant future. It reduces a number of risks including shyness, inability to put together a sentence, stumbling over your words and, frankly, making a complete fool of yourself, plus reducing the sting of rejection. These articles, as well as programs such as ‘Single Girls’ from the UK – four single women spend seven weeks on a dating frenzy in London, using all new technological services to snag the man of their dreams - are testament to the uncontrollable and often successful spree of 21st century dating modus operandi.
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