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Re:Review our startup: FlowMingle - Online Dating for the S... by elai on Thursday October 02, 2008 @11:22PM (#322392)
How is this easier/quicker than real life dating? The difference between online and real life 'dating' is that online dating takes way too much time.
Re:Review our startup: FlowMingle - Online Dating for the S... by SwellJoe on Friday October 03, 2008 @02:09AM (#322472)
I think this is a big problem with the whole concept. In real life, a glance, flushed cheeks and a smile tells you everything you need to know about basic attraction. Online, there's the back and forth over bullshit like music and film and food (which all matters to long-term relationships...but without the spark, there won't be a long-term) before you ever even get to meeting the person face to face. I don't know if going online can ever really make it more efficient.
Re:Review our startup: FlowMingle - Online Dating for the S... by iloveyouocean on Friday October 03, 2008 @03:18AM (#322516)
"In real life, a glance, flushed cheeks and a smile" aka The Moment. Could this happen online? Sure, and it undoubtedly does, but we recognize how rare this is, and understand that The Moment is much more likely to occur face to face.

FlowMingle is all about consistently providing you with a group of eligible, interested, and feasible people, helping you get to know them a bit, then facilitating some type of direct contact. Essentially, we want to provide you with as many opportunities as possible for The Moment to occur, by lowering the cost of finding a date. Most people do not consistently meet and interact with 10 other interested people in a week, and in this way FlowMingle is a very efficient use of your time.

We do not believe it is our job, or even within our ability, to 'create love', 'find your soulmate', 'provide a sure-thing hookup', etc. Instead, we focus on leveraging what the web does best(sharing information, facilitating communication, bringing people together, organizing activity) to help you do what you do best, face to face.