If you are a regular follower of My Pixie Blog, then you know that I have spent the last few weeks on Match.com. Part social experiment/part sincere interest in clicking with someone in the digital age, my efforts have not been terribly successful. I have decided not to renew my subscription when my three-month trial runs it’s course.
I’m a little tired of kissing frogs, to be perfectly honest.
So it was an interesting turn of events when I was asked to write a post on a new dating site. I found myself having yet another panic attack; the kind that only comes from “putting myself out there.” Did I really want to subject myself to a new school of fish with the same boring profiles?
I was reluctant until I clicked on the link and saw for myself.
HowAboutWe.com is a new service that infuses some fun and romance into the dating scene. Users are asked to describe their perfect date and if a suitor is interested, away they go to see if they are a match. I was particularly impressed with the creative dates some of the men came up with and I think this might be the perfect site for those of us who suffer from first-date jitters.
Why sit in uncomfortably high chairs at a loud and crowded bar when you can take your date to an aquarium? Are you the adventurous type? Perhaps trapeze school is just for you! Or how about signing up for a cooking class? These are just some of the dates I saw mentioned and they left me with a better understanding of who these men are.
After some thought, I think my ideal date would consist of dinner at Red Bamboo (my favorite vegetarian restaurant in the city) followed by some music at Sullivan Hall. I’m holding on to hope that perhaps that I can find my prince after all.
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Interesting, considering that despite your bad run at Match.com, you’re still having better luck than me, perhaps a change to something like this might be a better way to do. A first date at a Museum of my personal favorite places like The Bronx Zoo or Aquarium sounds more fun than a lousy “dinner and a movie date.”
Hmm, very interesting sounding site! Just may have to check that out…
Also, I think an e-mail exchange is in order soon to compare notes on our love lives, online-matched and off… 🙂
this sounds like a cool site – great idea! 🙂
I like this idea. It is a good way to get to know someone outside of the bar scene which was never my thing. You can see people’s true personality come through in a setting where you are learning something together. I say you sign up for the trapeze school and report back 😀
Sounds like a great idea!
P.S. Got your letter. Thank you! Writing you back now.
What a cool idea! I’m sending this to my BFF! 🙂
That sounds like fun!
However you end up meeting your future guy, organically or online, it will be worth the journey.
I wonder how you feel about Steve Harvey’s dating book? My bff swears by it. She is currently engaged at age 33.
that’s a cool idea. even if there’s no connection, you know you’ll still have a great time since you have the full date planned ahead of time. i wonder though, how accurate it can really be for finding a match since personalities are completely separate from interests. i imagine you’d find a lot of friends to do fun things with, but it still may be just as hard to find a compatible mate. you’ll have to keep us posted on how it goes!
I am going to tell my sis about this!
That does sound interesting. I will pop over and see it.
Let us know if you get any offers on via here. That would be most interesting.
Well I have to say that this is the best dating website idea I’ve EVER heard…because really, by the first date we know if it’s going to work out. And there is seldom a better match of strangers when you take into account their idea of the perfect first date. Although, maybe for us married folk out there who REALLY should not be caught on dating websites, just once, you can put your ideal first date as being flown in a private plane to Napa Valley for dinner and then up to San Francisco for some theater. And then blog every single detail about it!
I’m back on the Google Reader bandwagon now…I feel WAY out of the loop but I’ll get caught up eventually! xoxo Ally
Wow, sounds like a pretty great new concept!
I just took myself off all my dating sites but this one sounds very interesting!
What a cool idea! I can’t wait to see how this turns out! 🙂
How cool! Very nice sponsor.
If my husband wouldn’t get so pissed off, I’d be all over that. 🙂
PS I just wanted to let you know I will be answering your questions in a future post. I thought they deserved a little more attention.
What a fun idea! I met my husband on Match.com, but this sounds like much more fun!
oh! That sounds interesting. I have a girlfriend who’s been exploring match.com as well. I think this is something she’ll enjoy more! Thanks for sharing! xo
Do they have this for married people 😉