But because so many of us use them in a non-committal way myself included , moving a tepid online conversation into the real world can seem difficult, and often pointless. Countless matches are languishing in this limbo, with neither party ready to make the move and tee up a real-life date.
But a new Melbourne-centric dating app is looking to change this. Boop is an app focused on arguably the most crucial and generally the most enjoyable component of dating: actually going on dates.
The premise is simple yet effective. The impact of this is twofold β it gets us back out and dating after years of lockdowns, and it breathes life back into our hospitality industry.
To learn more about how it works, I downloaded Boop and went on a date with my good friend, Sav, because friendship should be valued as highly as romantic love, right? The ability to lock in a date through the app and prioritise it the same way you would a romantic date appeals to me. Once Sav had made her Boop profile, all she had to do was share it with me so we could match and create our date. If you were using the app as a single person, this function would be particularly useful.
We chose to have dinner at State of Grace, a venue in the CBD with an impressive rooftop the ideal environment for gazing at the city skyline while sipping cocktails, a real Sex and the City moment. We settled in for a night of drinking and eating, ordering more than we could probably stomach and speaking at a million miles an hour. Spending quality time with Sav reminded me how important it is to nurture our friendships in the same way we nurture our romantic relationships. The added bonus?
