Acquaintance and date: ratings and reviews of users and users. (Comic ideas continue to be embodied on smartphones.)

To begin, let me remind you (but it was probably not forgotten) that on October 22, 2009, I translated the blog recording of “ (Augmented) Reality Imitating Art ” at Habrahabr.


Then the reason for it was the appearance on YouTube of an amusing video , whose characters, running face recognition on a smartphone, could receive hyperlinks to each other’s profiles on social networks (such as Twitter, or Last.FM, or SlideShare). True, they used this technology not for dating and dating, but for business purposes (probably not for nothing: the authors of the video on the site can read that they eventually joined Research In Motion, Ltd. - and are working on the UI next generation BlackBerry).

But the comic itself was somewhat about something else: would it be a valuable achievement if the development of social networks would allow users and users to find out ratings and feedback when meeting with the purpose of dating?
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And I noticed that the comments on Habrahabr then developed this very idea.

You can specify, for example, that MuI_I_Ika smiled at first, and then admitted: “I’m confused that people will form an opinion about me without even talking, but simply by ratings in social networks.”

Levsha100 said: "The technology is excellent, this is a breakthrough, but somehow it will not be interesting to meet girls (((".

Infthi laid out a picture that perfectly illustrates the idea of ​​what specifically might be considered alarming in the idea of ​​a “high rating” and lead to the reaction “it’s not interesting to get acquainted”:



Well, esenin was skeptical: “Fudge it all. This will never happen. Perhaps single cases between adolescents who have not yet fully formed their idea of ​​this world. ”

The second half of this opinion roughly corresponds to the answer to the question “Will teenagers use this for sex?” In the recent Simple Answers issue of the XKCD comics:



(According to the comicist, the answer is always “yes”, regardless of which technology we are talking about.)

Well, what about the first half of the opinion? Is it true that “it is all fiction, it will never happen”? Or is it possible that a thought that it is appropriate to arrange a social network of acquaintances with polls and ratings of users and users might wander into the head of some startups?

Oddly enough, technology continues to imitate comics, so four years later an affirmative answer appeared on the Internet: yes, the construction of a social network of dating for sex with votes and ratings has begun. This is the PURE service (also with a video on YouTube), about which recently (October 25 of this year) a laudatory story appeared on the Lifehacker website. Literally this is what they say:

When it is over, the application will ask you "Well, how is it?" If it was cool, then the person will grow in the rating and will be in great demand on PURE.

If it is not directly "5 stars" + "13,400 users", then somewhere close. That is, people in the most significant way attacked the rake that Infthi warned about on Habrahabr four years ago.

But, at least, now we all see the plan from “Abstruse Goose” embodied in reality, albeit in parts: first, recognition of faces and their connection with the rating from the social network, and then (now) and the social network appeared, in which lovers and mistresses.

It is possible to suspect that the moment of connection of these two parts is not far too.

And I suspect.