There’s a new glut of apps aimed at young, horny hookup culture. We rank them for you so you can get back to your kegstands.
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I, for one, look forward to the day when technology allows us to skip over the humiliating courting and coitus process, and we can 3-D print a baby without having to mash together our revolting genitals.
Thankfully, a handful of hornballs are industriously working away at achieving at least the first part of this dream: making the process of getting laid easier. A slew of new apps launched by young men and women focus on hookup culture rather than traditional dating. These brave young entrepreneurs are pivoting the kegger into a digital space and disrupting roofies.
Let your phone become your frat paddle, and let's explore how to score with those hot Delta Phis!
Pikinis
What it is: The premise of Pikinis is as simple as it is skeevy: It searches your Facebook network for photos of girls in bathing suits and serves them up to you for your hog cranking pleasure. The app, which lauches in June, mirrors Facebook privacy settings, so if you post a bathing suit pic for your friends-only to see, Pikini won't show that to strangers. Unfortunately, Facebook has yet to create a privacy level setting for friends-but-not-ones-who-want-to-masturbate-to-my-photos.
While their promotional video suggests that this is used for sexual titilation, Pikinis founder Ted Kramer said this isn't necessarily the case: "Most of the interest we've seen to date is around using Pikinis as a place to make the most of the summer and share the summer experience. Surely for many users there is a titillating aspect, we don't want to presume the intentions of our users."
Though the app requires users to be 17 or older, it does not screen out bathing suit photos that an adult might have posted of themselves as a kid, or with a underage person included in the image.
Fratitude: 2 out of 5 togas. While the app recalls Reddit's infamous /r/creepshots in terms of ethics, it seems likely that the app is just a publicity stunt to attract attention to Three4six's (the company that makes Pikini) core business, which is their proprietary visual recognition software.
Source: vimeo.com / via: pikinis.com
Bang with Friends
What it is: The ultimate frat hookup app. Developed by two guys in their twenties to facilitate hookups using a double-blind system: You choose who among your Facebook friends you'd be "down to bang," and it only alerts you if they also chose you and the feeling is mutual. The iPhone app version also allows you to select "down to hang" if you're not quite ready to bang yet. I believe that is what used to be called "dating" in medieval times.
Fratitude: 4 out of 5 keg stands. It's a great idea for accomplishing one thing: sussing out which of your friends are secretly into you. In order to test the app to its logical extreme, I bit the bullet and selected every last one of my Facebook friends. My female relatives, professional acquaintances — no one was exempt. There were moments where it felt so uncomfortable, I had to let my eyes blur over as I wildly clicked "Down To Bang" on each profile pic. This is the only way to figure out if anyone at all had selected me back. I can say with certainty that no one (with the exception of tech writers testing the app) wishes to bang me. For this reason, I am pissed off and deducting one kegstand from the overall score.
Via: bangwithfriends.com
