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SummarySpecific situation / game scenarios for art meet geek.

Description *OkStupid has several defective patterns. You can not search for dating roles outside of the traditional heterogopoly. You cannot select for a whole variety of other criteria; tattoos, Everything is phrased in a dating context with too much pressure - it is anti social. We can imagine something different and playful.... Such as: 1) Something without words at all; where you maybe had sliders indicating things like more tattoos or less tattoos - kind of like dress up dolls; making a fetish object that is a projection of your interests. It explores the perversity of human aesthetics, mocks and ridicules the participant but in a way dissects the stresses associated with choice; liberating the participants to be expressive because they've let go of their ego. 2) Encouraging a more casual less stress out conversational tone - more about friends rather than fucking. Where you could just chat in a shared open space with each other; perhaps in a funny way perhaps in a serious way. 3) Allowing search, and allowing a wider range of personal expressiveness from the casual to the carnal. OkCupid has a tone that comes across as stilted. Perhaps this best could be accomplished by allowing one to forge multiple persona to express different character traits as separate identities. 4) Allowing for an expression of intersections rather than the self. People are often changing in response to whom they are around. There's a need for a way to reflect not what ones interests are (and to find similar matches thereof) but to find complementary interests - similar is not equal to complementary. Many of the social dating sites ask personal questions that are highly context specific and that truly fail to capture the 'wheels within wheels' that drive our deep behavior. Blake points this out in the Relationship book. 5) Federated; not a silo and not tied into an idea of secrecy. Twitter has such a huge defect in that the friends of friends are not implicitly visible; what is really desired is something vastly more social and open and anticipatory - that shows you a landscape of not personal connections but of an extended network of possible connections. Leverage Dopplr and everything else - don't be some lame little secret service in a corner. Thoughts?