I’ll start with Boink. It’s an app on the iPhone/ iPad, and if your first priority in a relationship is sexual compatibility, this may be the app for you. You know, you can bypass the step of actually sleeping with someone in case it’s a waste of time. Just like dates seem to have become a waste of time. We’ve whittled them down to 3-minute speed dates or the 15-minute “coffee meeting”. Or even just an online video chat. Nobody has the time, but I digress.

It lets you create a “bedroom profile,” from kissing preferences to preferred sexual positions, then tap your phone against another profile for a compatibility rating. Ahh, romance. It seems to bypass the step of actually sleeping with someone in case it’s a waste of time. But dates already seem short enough, with three-minute speed dates and fifteen-minute coffee meetings. But enough about Boink.

There’s also a Today Show story about a Mom who set up a website for her son to help find him a wife. It’s called “Date my Single Kid.” He seems attractive, smart, and perfectly normal, but it’s creepy that Mom is so involved. She says she wants to “cast a wider net,” because work leaves him without time to meet quality people. I would be scared to be the girl he ends up with. Mom might call every five minutes asking when she will have grandchildren.

Technology is great up to a point. Between Facebook feuds, drunk texts, Boink, and “Date my Single Kid,” I’m a little disillusioned. I want to tell people to walk over to someone at the coffee shop or at a party and just start talking. Go on a few dates, talk on the phone, spend time together, and get to know her or him. There’s something to be said for leaving your love life to chance. The journey is not a waste of time. Go on a few dates, see if there’s something there. Talk on the phone.