GPS Dating Apps For Your Phone Let You Meet People In Your Immediate Vicinity (VIDEO)

Watch CeCe, 24, find a date in Soho using a new GPS dating app on her iPhone called MeetMoi :

Sometimes meeting people is meant to be spontaneous.

A new trend in online dating makes use of the GPS in your iPhone, Android, or Blackberry to help you find a date within a mile radius of where you are at any moment.

Sound scary? The new technology is completely secure: your exact location is never revealed, so if you're a stalker, well, you're sh*t out of luck.

Here's how GPS dating works: you fill out a profile saying who you are and what you're looking for in your mate. (For example, you could say you're only interested in non-smoking Jewish men taller than 5'10" who read Henry James on the weekends.)

Then the application matches your profile with potential mates, all within a mile radius. If you live in Wyoming you can change that to fifty or a hundred miles or however big Wyoming is, anyways.

Once your profile is matched, you have one hour to initiate a conversation via instant message. If you can't work up the courage in the first hour, your match disappears.

To be fair, the trend isn't exactly "new": The location-based online dating tool Grindr has been around for the gay community since March 2009.

But you no longer have to be gay to try location-based dating: a wave of new apps, including MeetMoi, Skout, and SinglesAroundMe give us all the chance to find out, once and for all, if the Internet will bring us happiness, as we were promised.

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Comments

[ThomasCM]

07:41 PM on 11/15/2010

Never being more than a mile away from a potential date; what an interesting concept! New technology continues to change the way that people live their lives, and dating is no different. As more and more options pop up (including the use of GPS to find dates) it’s clear that singles have become more choosy about their preferred dating service and its features. Basically they want find a match on their own terms.

Online daters want to be able to search for potential matches based on more criteria than previously available at faster speeds than ever before, without sacrificing privacy or comfort. At AdoptAGuy.com, we've seen an uptick in new members by offering women a more customized dating experience, allowing them to search for exactly the type of guy that they are looking for, within their desired geographic area (while controlling who they decide to communicate with).

Let's face it, people value their time above all else, and providing them enough important information about other users, while allowing them to control the communication process, is key to a successful online dating experience.

[pinpointsx]

06:12 AM on 11/14/2010

Just wanted to emphasis the security measures that PinPointsX is taking to prevent stalking or unwanted connections:
1. Every communication (texting or calling) requires a consent from the other end
2. When you block someone - they cannot see you anymore (AKA the"Keyser Soze" feature)
3. You can go switch to an Invisible Mode whenever you wish
4. You always have the option to choose whether you want to use the GPS or set your location manually
5. (This is the main security feature:) Scrambling mechanism within few blocks radius- re-scramble every two minutes (!)

Those feature make PinPointsX safer than, let's say, a night in a bar (don't you wish you had a potion that make you "Invisible" when a jerk started to bug you? or perhaps teleporting ability? or having guys sending you a request before approaching you?)

[Or Carmeli]

02:17 PM on 11/13/2010

The PinpointsX app is really cool for dating and to see whos around your area through a map of all the users. That way you can click on whos close to you and check out their profile, if theyre good enough to meet up, you can call them. It works on iPhone and Android too.

[Whistler2010]

03:47 PM on 11/25/2010

I use SinglesAroundMe and i find it fascinating.

[PlayTOE]

08:35 PM on 11/11/2010

This app is ~ worlds oldest profession meets new technology.
That is sure to be a love affair.

[HansMundt]

07:33 PM on 11/11/2010

Sounds like the future of online stalking. A serial killers paradise. Victims profiles galore lol. Good idea, but it sounds too creepy.

[Hunter Stuart]

09:27 AM on 11/12/2010

No..It doesn't reveal your exact location!

[Lawrence0123]

06:37 PM on 11/11/2010

sigh

yea, right.