The new app BangWithFriends launched last month, making it possible to tell if someone on Facebook might want to be more than just friends. You can add the app without anyone knowing and it will only let the person know you fancy them if they have also got the app and have said they fancy you. It saves you the awkwardness of the old-fashioned way of sussing out whether a friend likes you by getting drunk and “accidentally” brushing your hand on their knee/bicep/breast to see their reaction. But once you’ve both agreed you’d like to “bang” in a comfortable virtual world, you’re still left with the reality of… reality, where tapping your friends is never just as simple as tapping a screen.
So, it’s kinda like Grindr, but for straight people (or not) who already know each other.
Why couldn’t they have had something similar before I was married with kids?
Sounds like a promising concept
Yeah. This would be much more fun if I were single.
It’s effectiveness is going to be undermined, when girls discover that guys are simply clicking “interested” for ever girl they know, effectively spamming for sex.
I think I have seen something like this before. However, it was like an online service where you had to individually enter your list of people - it did not use Facebook lists, which had not been invented at the time.
Interesting how the “friends” in “Bang with friends” is plural…
If she wants to bang, you’ll know. Unless you’re too timid and shy to run any sort of game.
We’re CFAs damnit! It’s not M’nA’in on the Buyside, CTRL-Zing on an Excel, or Levering Up on Naked Options; it’s talking to a fuggin female! Good grief, sometimes I wonder about the survival of our species.
but, but, what if she doesn’t like me back?
Here is a surefire way to know if I’m interested in boning you: Answer these questions.
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Am I related to you? (Third cousins and beyond should answer “No” for #1.) If the answer is NO, go to step #2. If the answer is YES, then stop. I do not want to bone you.
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Are you female? If the answer is YES, then I’m interested in gettin’ down with the ground 'n pound. If the answer is NO, then I do not want to bone you. (I realize I may be discriminating against many men, but it’s my ding dong, and I do with it what I please).
And it’s just that simple.
^the number of non-relative females you are willing to bone should be inversely proportional to the amount and quality of reciprocity to your advances. its just that simple
Some guy I know from college hooked up with this girl. Then, he went to a wedding and turns out they are related.
Damn, I was born way too soon.
I don’t think they’ll care. If they honestly want to party, they won’t care if you clicked everyone or not. A more likely scenario I see is a lot of ladies clicking on dudes who they are pretty sure want to bone them and then using the confirmation against them.
Female “friend” of BS to her friends: “Oh, I accidently clicked on Swan’s account and it turns out he wants to bone me. What a perv!”
I think it will just be guys saying they want to bang everyone and then girls saying they only want to bang the attractive guys. Once again, it can be a PITA to be unattractive…or even average looking. Have to do something to stand out, like a face tattoo or being into BDSM.
Do women really need a computer program to tell them that guys want to bone them?
It’d be nice if it had a setting that said “would if I could.” Then us guys with partners can find out who we’d have a chance with if we were ever free.
Would you really “bone” just any woman out there? Surely you have higher standards for your pecker than you do for a parking space.
Even very attractive women know that their looks can be intimidating to guys. Assuming that an intimidated guy is not a complete turn-off to them (for some women yes, for others, no, or it depends on whom), this is potentially a way for a woman to filter out guys she thinks are jerks while still letting guys she likes know that a pass would be welcome.
I think a lot of women would like the idea of being able to proposition a guy with anonymity and plausible denyability. And this provides it.
I think the big issue is that you come home sloshed one night, start clicking on everyone your drunk brain thinks is doable, and then in the morning, you wake up and realize you don’t feel the same way anymore. But too late, half of your friends were drunk too and now you have to put in or shut in.
I believe the male philosophy when it comes to this is: “Pursue all projects with positive NPV”.
So ohai is right.
The female philosophy is: “Pick a project that maximizes IRR”.
I think there’s an app like that in China called Weixin. Wonder why it took so long for this to catch up to the western world?