Here is a recipe : Take Foursquare , off all potential usefulness . Take the totality of geological dating , add all potential creepiness . Mix . Dump in five pounds of common salt . come in into jugular . Mm ! You ’re now using Crowded Room , today ’s stupidest , disorder iPhoneapp .
Crowded Roomis made by the same tech empire that owns Match.com and OkCupid — two very impertinent companionship . So it ’s hard to believe something so fatuous is now among their ranks . The app is found around the conception of do public the place where you “ might go”—a sort of Foursquare checkin for the future . Except it ’s not the time to come . It ’s a possible future . You might go to twenty different position on any throw night , or nowhere at all . What worth is there in place up some inclination of hypotheticals ? Does Crowded Room really think we ’ve come to the point where we need some sort of societal internet venn diagram to make a chemical group design ? Ca n’t I just text you and say something like this ? “ Hey , it ’s Sam Biddle . I ’m call up about going to The Bar . What do you want to do tonight ? ”
Oh but there ’s so much more . Crowded Room is n’t just puzzlingly useless , it ’s a way to run across people and have sex with them ! And by that I mean stare at the user names of multitude with like hypothetical architectural plan , hypothetically message them , and then what — go out on a particular date because you were believe about maybe sometime maybe going to the same restaurant ?
In what cosmos would any of this work ? In what society do the great unwashed meet up with strangers based on the fact that they have a mutual supporter and might go to the same place at some point ? [ Crowded RoomviaAllThingsD ]
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