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If I had an app like Grindr (to find people in my physical proximity who had something in common with me), I would probably not be interested in using it to hook up for sex, but I would probably use it to find other people who were carrying a knitting project with them.
If I had an app like Grindr (to find people in my physical proximity who had something in common with me), I would probably not be interested in using it to hook up for sex, but I would probably use it to find other people who were carrying a knitting project with them.
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Date: 5 Jul 2010 05:42 pm (UTC)That's really thought-provoking, thanks for sharing it. I have a few friends who feel isolated and when I make suggestions about stuff they could do that would put them in the same room (virtual or meatspace) as other people they might like, they come up with reasons why not. It hadn't occurred to me that this might be due to fear of rejection. My fears of rejection are different from that.
I wouldn't use a "finding other people with my interests" app in the belief that I would easily find other people with the exact same interests as me. And even if someone does knit exactly what I knit, it doesn't mean we would get along as friends. (E.g., I've been to some knitting groups where I really did not like one single person.) With the app, I would be after more of a "We're all over the place, whee!" feeling.