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Re:Lulu: An App No One Should Accept by jgrahamc on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @08:52AM (#5524752)
I can't help feeling that the people who use such an app to date and rate deserve each other.
Re:Lulu: An App No One Should Accept by jeffreybaird on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @08:55AM (#5524770)
The issue is men don't use the app. I downloaded it on my SO's phone and was able to find most of the college age guys I know on it. None of them knew they were on there.
Re:Lulu: An App No One Should Accept by mseebach on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @09:39AM (#5525043)
Have each of them demand a dump of their reviews from the service, as they're entitled to under EU data protection directive. If there's anything libellous in there, try to get a newspaper interested. The Daily Mail is probably a good choice for this mixture of sex and scandal.
Re:Lulu: An App No One Should Accept by dfxm12 on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @10:46AM (#5525434)
The issue is men don't use the app.

I think the issue is men can't use the app.

Re:Lulu: An App No One Should Accept by tomjen3 on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @11:23AM (#5525685)
Really. How the hell do they check that the user is a man? Facial recognition?
Re:Lulu: An App No One Should Accept by dfxm12 on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @11:25AM (#5525695)
No idea. You have to install the app on your phone, so it can read your phone's accounts. I think a Google account is required on an Android phone. Google accounts have gender in their profile (remember the G+ fiasco?). You also have to link it to Facebook, so it has access to your Facebook data as well. Maybe they don't like new Facebook accounts with zero activity, but certainly there is a usecase for women who want to use this app, but don't want to use Facebook (I would think there is a usecase for women who don't have smartphones as well). Not sure about the iPhone flow.

This thought exercise is really making me scared about how much the owners of the apps on my phone know about me!

Re:Lulu: An App No One Should Accept by olivier1664 on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @11:46PM (#5529876)
Men generally do not need this kind of application to judge if they desire or not a particular woman.
Re:Lulu: An App No One Should Accept by chime on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @09:08AM (#5524843)
Precisely my feelings. #UsesLulu would be all I would've wanted to know about someone to realize it wouldn't work out. Similar to girls who drive SUVs and support Drill-Baby-Drill. Big red flags.
Re:Lulu: An App No One Should Accept by jsmcgd on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @08:55AM (#5524774)
I don't think it's a dating service. I think it's like an anonymous 'man review' site. You might be on there ...
Re:Lulu: An App No One Should Accept by narag on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @09:53AM (#5525116)
If girl is so naive to believe that the competition is going to disclose trusworthy information, indeed, she deserves what she finds.