My opportunity was finding a way to make it easier and more fun for people in Greek life to find dates for date functions. An idea for this is to make an app like Tinder but have it be solely for people in Greek organizations and solely for date functions. You could put in preferences of the other organizations you’d like to go with, a schedule of your availability so you’re taken out of the system for the functions you’re not available for, how you are as a date and what you want out of a date. This would make it more fun and allow people to get to know they otherwise might not have. It also takes the fear of rejection away because if you don’t match with someone, you won’t even be able to ask. Once the date is over, you can leave comments on the person and rate how they were on a date function.
Thank you Courtney, I enjoyed reading your blog post. As I stated in your past post, I think an app idea would be really interesting for greek life. One concern I would have with your interpretation of the idea may be the rating system. I think some people may rate someone badly simply if they didn't hook up with them which may lead to some unnecessary pressure.
ReplyDeleteI like this idea a lot and it would make greek life more interesting since you can meet people in organizations that your's is not especially close to. I agree with Stephen Elia in that a rating system could be abused. This solution has many options in terms of making profit as well. This is a simple solution but that's why I think it could be really successful.
ReplyDeleteI think that this is an excellent idea, Courtney. It seems that Tinder has had a lot of success lately and I know a few people already try to use this app for their date functions. This app can take away the complete randomness of taking someone on a date function. I think this app would be very successful if implemented into Greek life.
ReplyDeleteI must admit, after watching Dr. Pryor's lectures, app ideas make me twinge a little. But that's not to say it's a lost cause. I agree with Stephen and Alex: don't use a rating system. Brief comments or a synopsis, possibly. Like I said on the last post, I don't particularly identify with this concept, but can see where is might be needed.
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