An app to rate your date
There’s a new, “female-friendly” dating app on the scene, said Deborah Schoeneman in The New York Times. The program, called Lulu, is like a Yelp for women who want to know as much about who they’re going to a restaurant with as they do about what restaurant they’re going to. It allows them to “anonymously review men who are their Facebook friends,” and read similar reviews from women they don’t know. Users “can rate men in categories—ex-boyfriend, crush, together, hooked-up, friend, or relative—with a multiple-choice quiz” and add hashtags that are used to calculate a score and rate the men. “Dating without a reference is the scariest thing you can do,” said Erin Foster, a 31-year-old Lulu user. “Meeting someone out in the world when you’re not in school or don’t work with each other or have mutual friends—you have no idea what you’re getting yourself into.”
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