Comments on: What's the Best Way to Find Love Using Tech?

By: George Ulysses

George Ulysses — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:54:30 +0000

I wrote an article on my blog on how to find partners using facebook and myspace. I believe it can help you all. Take a look:

http://georgeulysses.com/2009/09/22/find-love-and-sex-on-facebook-myspace/

By: Royal Frasier

Royal Frasier — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:05:38 +0000

I think you’re thinking of DateCheck – Gelato doesn’t do background checks on it’s users

By: David Evans

David Evans — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:59:27 +0000

Gordon, If you actually tried the service you would see that you have complete control over what information is displayed and you can use an alias instead of your Facebok name. This is the kind of knee-jerk reaction that is way off the mark but completely understandable.

That said, Gelato have some deeply troubling technology and privacy issues to deal with, but thats par for the course for a startup.

By: Tony Sabbadini

Tony Sabbadini — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:49:26 +0000

Gordon, I’m with you (and I’m 25). As technology keeps advancing my generation seems to lose a commensurate amount of humanity and basic social skills. I have no interest in such a technology as a user, let alone a target of someone else’s search. Gattica, here we come.

By: Gordon Scott Edwards

Gordon Scott Edwards — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:01:37 +0000

Gelato is just too much!!! It invades privacy. I can’t imagine using gelato even though I have nothing to hide. I wasnt my profile to reveal enough information to help someone to know if we want to meet. It is the face-to-face meeting that tells you whether a relationship is a possibility. Who wants to do a background check on everyone they meet through online dating. What a waste of time and effort. Maybe it is my age that leads me to be against gelato, for I am in my 60s and I have dated women in their mid-fifties to upper-sixties and found no need to check into their criminal background.

By: Vineet

Vineet — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:30:00 +0000

I found the concept pretty interesting, I do feel that leveraging the facebook or twitter database to get users is a great way to expand business, especially the ones that use online profiles for users.
However, I wonder how Gelato plansto cater to users who are either not on facebook/twitter account or are not interested in opening an account with Facebook/Twitter. Also, when startups link themselves with social network sites such as Facebook or Twitter, do these startups get the permission to use the twitter/facebook for free as it will only help facebook/twitter get more users or are these startups going to pay some kind of cut for using the database in facebook/twitter?

-V