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Nine sites that would make our dating lives easier

Googling your date – and finding only their marathon times and real estate records – is so 2009. Here are nine other websites that would be helpful in the dating world.

Want to know if she actually reads in between Facebooking? Check. Want to know who’s a closet racist? Check. Listen up, Silicon Valley angel investors!

1. WinkedIn.com

We all have our suspicions about people: How did she get that book deal? How did he get that corner-office job? Some people come off as if they were promoted while on the toilet reading upside-down comic books. Yet their impressive résumé says otherwise. Remove the doubt by double-checking on your date with this handy and honest career site. Want to know what family member hooked her up? Want to know whom he slept with to get the internship? It’s all here.

“Oh me? I just worked hard to get to where I am,” he might say. Now you’ll know whether he’s telling the truth.

2. IMADB.com (aka I Am A D-Bag)

By 2050, humans will spend approximately 19 years of their lives watching TV. As Ellen McCarthy, a Washington Post reporter who’s covered hundreds of weddings, has said: “At the end of the day, marriage is about asking, ‘Who do you want to sit next to on the couch?’”

What happens during that time on the couch is critical. Don’t spend it with someone who says “spoiler alert” and then gives away endings anyway. Don’t spend it with someone who scrolls incessantly through Instagram and then asks a lot of questions later about what’s happening. Hate the guy that says, “Ooooh! Watch, this is the best part!”? Us, too.

Find out what shows your matches like; whether they add butter to their popcorn; if they’ll yell at you for trying to make out during the boring parts; and if they cried during “Beasts of the Southern Wild” and slept through “Lincoln” (like you did). It’s all about what’s right for you and your TV!

Netflix and chill? Not until you visit IMADB.

3. Racebook.com

“I’m not racist – I have two black friends!” is the chorus of the racist. “I’m not racist, but look at those people doing that again!” is the refrain of the bigoted. No longer will you have to sit on a bar stool next to someone who believes their “right” to make offensive jokes trumps equality. Racebook allows you to track a date’s history commenting online.

Pejorative responses to #BlackLivesMatter? Boot him! Doesn’t like “the rap music”? She’s gone! Thanks, Racebook!

4. Froogle.com

It’s embarrassing to be with someone who snaps at a waiter to get his attention. Worse if he whistles for a bartender to look over. Some people have no idea how to treat waitstaff well, or how to tip. We’ve all been with that guy who leaves 10 percent and expects to be welcomed back another night.

Froogle works with face-recognition software and real-time reporting by bartenders and baristas so you can look up a date’s gratuity history in a matter of moments.

5. BoobTube.com

This app tracks the amount of time he (or she!) looks you in the eye. Just download it, prop your phone on the table and let the percentages rack up. We’ll tell you how your date compares to the international average by age and gender.

We also track how much your date blinks a normal amount, and whether his or her eyes are shifty. Because shifty can be measured, and you deserve steady.

6. Wikipenis.org

You’re about to go on a date with a Tinderfella. He’s cute, charming over text and you appear to have the same tastes in hipster coffeeshops. But you can’t help think: What’s his penis like and where’s it been? You’ve never seen one that bends, but does his? Is he circumcised? Has he been sticking it places you’d rather not touch through association, vegetable or mineral? Well, wonder no more! Wikipenis has the skinny on your next man’s member. Scroll through our brief synopsis of the penis, its significant career highlights and browse our handy testimonials from past consumers.

7. ReadIt.com

Does he have books on his shelf? What are they? Of those, how many has he read? Of the many authors she name-checked on your date, how many of them has she read?

Pay for ReadIt+ to receive a certified psychiatrist’s analysis of his five favorite authors. If the answer is Chuck Palahniuk, J.D. Salinger, Bret Easton Ellis, Jonathan Franzen and Martin Amis, you’re dating everyone’s ex.

8. Instasham.com

Everyone has pictures of themselves on top of a mountain these days. And everyone has Photoshop.

Instasham helps you weed the fakers from the hikers, the sloths from the slog-it-outs. Because you deserve a partner who can keep up.

9. Twister.com

Your family board game has been updated for the 21st century, and it’s no longer for families! Through our easy-to-use network, find out your partner’s favorite sex positions and whether your date has a bad back that will prevent them from using that expensive new sex toy you just bought and want to christen.

Because let’s be real: By the time you can afford high-quality sex toys in this economy, your body is no longer young.



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