Okay, so I had an idea yesterday for a website, and I wanted to run it by my own little tiny corner of the blogosphere. FYI, this post’s a request for commentary, so if you read, please also offer up your opinion.
Yesterday, Melissa and I were driving back from my long run and discussing going out to the local country bar. We realized very quickly that though we do have a lot of great friends, we couldn’t think of even one “set” of friends who like to do that sort of thing. We’ve had them in the previous places we’ve lived, but here we just haven’t connected with anyone to, well, go out with.
So that led to a discussion about how the “couple friend” is so similar in many ways to individual friendships and even dating relationships. One couple through one process or another becomes friends with another couple. Often there is a first “date”, follow up dates, etc. You reach a level of comfortability with that couple…pretty soon you’re wanting to meet each other’s parents. It’s remarkable the similarities when you start thinking about it.
In conjunction with this conversation, Melissa brought up that a certain work friend of hers who is married was complaining that she and her husband just haven’t quite found any couple friends, despite having access to other couples in town through various social stuff.
A light bulb lit up in my head, and I’m not sure if it was a bright white, environmentally friendly florescent, or if it was one of those orange halogen bulbs people insist on putting out at Halloween.
What if there was a “dating” site for couples?
WHOA…stop right there. I see where your naughty little brains went with this. I’m not talking about a swinger site. Geez, what kind of a guy do you think I am? PG people, PG.
What I’m talking about is a website that combines the best of popular online dating sites with aspects of social networking sites designed to help couples find other couples interested in similar things for PLATONIC friendship.
Sound weird? Maybe. Or maybe it just might be something that people would be interested in. People thought online dating was weird at first, and now that’s one of the main ways individuals start relationships. Sure, most of the time, this process happens naturally for couples: one significant other is friends with someone else’s significant other, the four get together for lunch and pretty soon they’re watching each other’s kids and taking vacations together. Most of the time, this works.
But sometimes, you find yourself as a couple in a new city or maybe you have interests as a couple that your other close friends aren’t really interested in. Either way, wouldn’t it be convenient if there were a site designed to hook you up with other couples? I think it might be useful to us. We already have a core group of couple friends who we love spending time with, but they all either live too far away or wouldn’t have been interested in going to that country bar. These are some of our best friends in the world, but we couldn’t hang with them last night or any other night we get the gumption to do that particular kind of activity.
Maybe you and your bf/husband/gf/wife love to ski…but none of the other couples you hang with do. Or maybe you would love to go on a cruise with another couple, but none of your current friends like boats. Or maybe you just haven’t connected with that special someone…okay, getting weird again. I think you guys get the point.
So what do you think? Good idea? Dumb idea?
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