Look, we’re not trying to tell you what to do with your life, but downloading an app to meet a total stranger on OKCupid for a blind date is a bad idea. Like, Manti Te’o bad. And that’s before you get to the fact that it’s yet another dating app that’s a complete privacy nightmare.
The app, Crazy Blind Date, is self-explanatory. You use the app, pick a time and place, and somebody from OKCupid shows up, and hopefully does not own a lot of duct tape, and roofies, or a van. Seriously, what planet do people live on that this is a good idea?
Anyway, the idea is that you know nothing about the person, but thanks to a technical glitch… not so much:
On Tuesday morning, OkCupid.com launched a mobile app called Crazy Blind Date that promises to take much of the decision-making and profile-scouring out of online dating. You name a time and venue, they find you a blind date. But there was one problem: The software behind Crazy Blind Date made users’ email addresses and full birth dates accessible to anyone with the right technical skills.
Apparently, nobody took advantage of the glitch before it was found, and CEO Sam Yagan apologized, saying it was a “typo”. So, if you plan on using Crazy Blind Date, all you need to worry about is the roofies, duct tape and van.
Yay?
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seems like it would be pretty easy to just take a screen capture of the person in question and re-arrange the mosaic to see what they really look like.
I kinda wondered about that. Also, don’t you want a photo that lets you know A) who you’re meeting and B) whether you have met this person before?
Seriously, would I trust them to arrange a blind date after they have been sending me “matches” which were only 34% compatible by their own statistics, just because she lived seven miles away?
This is one of those “great” ideas which will end in assault and lawsuit. The original owners seemed to have some sense. After match.com bought OKCupid is got more interested in statistics and less interested in actual matches.
Now I just wish someone would make an app that shows the closest locations for places that sell roofies, duct tape and a van.
Ironic how the example pic shows a date near “Hunter’s Point.” Next date should be near “Predator Island” or perhaps “Bodybag Park.”