Even the most inhospitable corner of the earth can be used to find the love of our life. Applied to the digital world, the most common is to use dating apps or even social networks like Instagram. However, here too, there are no limits and some abandon these tools to resort to another that we already know, but which we never imagined it would be used for flirting.
It is Google Docs, the text editing tool in the cloud of the Mountain View company that we usually use in work or school contexts and which is now also used for flirting. And it is that, while we thought that with the Christian Tinder we had seen everything, a Wired report arrives that changes everything.
The love CV taken from Google Docs
In the most popular dating applications, we always find several elements in common with regard to the data of the person in question: photograph, age and description. Elements which can perfectly be included in a text document and which at some point it started to be a trend of which we were unaware.
In the aforementioned Wired report, it is revealed how increasingly common it is that, at least in the United States, Google’s openly accessible documents are used to serve as a loving resume. Several profiles of people who share links to their respective documents in order to introduce themselves before getting an appointment are also detailed.
One of the cases exposed is that of engineer Chris Olah. At 29 years old and living in San Francisco, he does not cut corners and already from the title of his Google Doc exposes his direct description and his objectives: “Male, Straight, 5.7″ [1,73 m]monogamous, wants to have children. Inside, the scope of his biography is so broad that it is even divided into four chapters with 15 subcategories in which he lays out everything from his food preferences to his ideas on politics.
They post the link on their social networks and some even add forms to make an appointment.
Another case that draws attention is that of Jacob Falkovich, who link to Google forms to join the queue of interested people chatting with him, going on a date, or “going on a date” (you know what we mean by that, right?).
respect to how do you develop these documents, known as “Date Me”, there is no clear rule. Some pin it on their Twitter profiles. What is common to all of them, at least as explained in Wired, is that they also do not accept just any date, since they say they are very selective and take the search for their half.
As Catherine Olsson, a friend of Chris Olah explains, not all the requests that are received are directed towards the realm of love and probably not even towards the sexual domain. Olsson admits that several times receive more messages from entrepreneurs who, instead of being interested in his more personal profile, seem to be more interested in his professional profile.
And it is that after all, despite this strange trend that Google Docs is the new Tinder, there are still many people who do not understand this type of document well. Associating them with an area as particular as love is not easyBut the foundations are there. Who knows, maybe Google will understand and even add templates focused on this area.
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