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![Are You Interested? is one of the many dating apps on the market that works with Facebook. By pulling information from your Facebook page, the app matches you without the added stress of filling out all the same information twice. Once registered, you're confronted with a barrage of romantic options and offered either a "yes" or "skip" button. All your "yes"es are saved and kept in a pile you can browse through later. The chatting feature is free. Word to the wise: the crowd trends a little down-market. (Naked picture requests galore.) Kudos for its accessibility, however. The site also encourages you to purchase points to send people gifts and private pictures, and the ability to stalk who checked out your profile. While downloading is free, points range anywhere from $2.99 for 150 to $19.99 for 1,400. -MN](http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/06Iag15b8vewM/80x60.jpg?center=0.5,0 "Are You Interested? is one of the many dating apps on the market that works with Facebook. By pulling information from your Facebook page, the app matches you without the added stress of filling out all the same information twice. Once registered, you're confronted with a barrage of romantic options and offered either a "yes" or "skip" button. All your "yes"es are saved and kept in a pile you can browse through later. The chatting feature is free. Word to the wise: the crowd trends a little down-market. (Naked picture requests galore.) Kudos for its accessibility, however. The site also encourages you to purchase points to send people gifts and private pictures, and the ability to stalk who checked out your profile. While downloading is free, points range anywhere from $2.99 for 150 to $19.99 for 1,400. -MN")
![Skout, upon registering, walks you through a rather easy set-up and asks what you're looking for: women, men, both and whether you prefer if they're "near" or more broadly, within the same "city," "state," "country" or even "world." Within moments, I had tons of selections pop up and half a dozen people IM'ing me to chat. Unfortunately, some of my "near" prospects who were said to be five and seven miles away, ended up being much, much farther. Sitting in my Park Slope, Brooklyn apartment one guy who was advertised as 6 miles away was actually all the way in Queens, and another in Union Square. Blech. This, unfortunately, might be one of Skout's quirks. Every guy I chatted lamented similar grievances, making it one of Skout's most obvious drawbacks. -MN](http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/057k0J6gix0SR/80x60.jpg?center=0.5,0 "Skout, upon registering, walks you through a rather easy set-up and asks what you're looking for: women, men, both and whether you prefer if they're "near" or more broadly, within the same "city," "state," "country" or even "world." Within moments, I had tons of selections pop up and half a dozen people IM'ing me to chat. Unfortunately, some of my "near" prospects who were said to be five and seven miles away, ended up being much, much farther. Sitting in my Park Slope, Brooklyn apartment one guy who was advertised as 6 miles away was actually all the way in Queens, and another in Union Square. Blech. This, unfortunately, might be one of Skout's quirks. Every guy I chatted lamented similar grievances, making it one of Skout's most obvious drawbacks. -MN")
![StreetSpark is one of the many dating apps that uses "social matching" to find you like-minded partners. Your first step is to sync your Facebook, Twitter and FourSquare so they can scour the databases for your social networking similarities. If you're the type to check into the same places on FourSquare or tweet about the same article or song, Street Spark will make the assumption that perhaps you two should meet. A nifty match motif is used to "ignite sparks" between you and get the ball rolling. If you talk and feel there isn't chemistry, you can "extinguish" the fire, thus moving them out of your "sparkBox" forever. It makes nifty sounds and the basic app runs for around zero dollars. -MN](http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0fBmcy75LPb9l/80x60.jpg?center=0.5,0 "StreetSpark is one of the many dating apps that uses "social matching" to find you like-minded partners. Your first step is to sync your Facebook, Twitter and FourSquare so they can scour the databases for your social networking similarities. If you're the type to check into the same places on FourSquare or tweet about the same article or song, Street Spark will make the assumption that perhaps you two should meet. A nifty match motif is used to "ignite sparks" between you and get the ball rolling. If you talk and feel there isn't chemistry, you can "extinguish" the fire, thus moving them out of your "sparkBox" forever. It makes nifty sounds and the basic app runs for around zero dollars. -MN")
10 Mobile Dating Apps You Should Know About
Ah, smart phones. Some people probably appreciate them for the ability to check email on-the-go and others like having a miniature lightsaber at their disposal, but the smart phone really only became useful with the advent of location-based dating apps. Well, at least if you're single, dating and eager to find a possible love connection right now.
Sounds pretty easy, right? Easier than the winking and messaing of online dating even, right? It is—that's why this form of love connecting has become so popular. The mobile dating field is fast-growing and choosing which service to invest in can be overwhelming, so we took the time to test out the leading players for you.
Here are 10 location-based dating apps worth your time.
By Melissa Noble and Tom Miller