Ladies, Meet Lulu
Enter Lulu, the “Girls Only” dating app designed to rate men. As founder Alexandra Chong says, “I founded Lulu because my friends and I needed it.” Lulu takes the “girls looking out for girls” ethos to the next level. Lulu allows women to leave reviews of their dates, exes, crushes, and friends. In an era of online dating, where a guy can make himself out to be anyone he wants to be, Lulu tries to provide that crucial second — and third, and fourth — perspective. Lulu takes the mechanism of social approval that exists elsewhere on the web and uses it for people. It reminds me of seeking travel reviews. When a traveler has been to a foreign country or island, they can tell you which cities to hit and which to skip, what sites to see and which to ignore. With Lulu, the cities are men. Obviously, just like with traveling, reviews are influenced by personal experience; seldom are they completely objective. A great rating doesn’t always make it a great buy — you may still be disappointed with your product after reading all of the five-star reviews or find out that the outlier one-star reviewer who rants about how much a toaster oven destroyed their lives might not have been so wrong. But due to the number of reviews, there is generally some consensus on how good the product is, and it’s those reviews that prepare you for what you are getting yourself into and help you choose one product over another.
A New App That Will Rate Your Date? was originally published on wzakcleveland.com
