Forget online dating websites: New app lets you play matchmaker with single friends by setting them up via Facebook

PUBLISHED: 11:07 EST, 8 May 2013 | UPDATED: 11:07 EST, 8 May 2013

A new Facebook matchmaking app that allows users to be virtual wingmen promises to take the awkwardness out of being set up with strangers, and the guesswork out of online dating websites.

Launched by four friends from Toronto, Canada, in their thirties - all of whom were tired of trying to meet new people in a big city - YouShouldTotallyMeet lets users set up a dating profile for a single friend and recommend them to other people in their immediate network.

The app also has a function that lets mutual friends agree or disagree with comments written about the singletons.

Playing cupid: New app YouShouldTotallyMeet allows users to create dating profiles for their single friends and set them up with others via Facebook

The founders cite the fact that the two most common ways of meeting people these days are through blind dates, and online dating websites, both of which can be awkward.

Hayley Taylor, the app's co-founder, said in a release: 'By being set up with mutual friends of friends, it's a way to "kiss fewer frogs," so to speak.'

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It's also a more human approach to matchmaking than the algorithmic method used by some dating websites.

Users write dating profiles for their friends as well as at least three reasons why someone should 'totally' meet them, the idea being that a person's friend will write a more honest profile for them than they might write themselves.

Then with a single click, the 'wingman' selects friends whom he or she wants to introduce to each other.

Dating profile: The app lets you write at least three qualities about your single friend that you think make them 'totally' awesome to meet. Mutual friends can then agree or disagree with what you've written

What's more, since the pair being set up already have mutual friends, they are more likely to have other things in common, too.

'We saw an opportunity to use Facebook as a way for single people to have fewer bad dating experiences,' explained the co-founder.

New users can also request their friends to be wingmen for them, instead of waiting to be set up.

YouShouldTotallyMeet is currently only available on Facebook, but a mobile-friendly version is also in the works and will be available soon.

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only app worst than this on fb would have to be farmville

- ilikturtles , Land Of Opportunity, 09/5/2013 08:17

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There isn't a bright tall interesting enough man on the planet.

- Mary Poppins , In the Conservatory with the Candlestick, 09/5/2013 05:56

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its almost like arranged marriages what a great idea

- dookieduke , Boston USA, 09/5/2013 05:33

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No thanks! I have already been on too many well meaning blind dates set up by friends. I prefer to trust my own judgement rather than someone else's.

- Comfychair , London, United Kingdom, 09/5/2013 05:31

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what the hell kind of dude would want to date a girl whos reluctant to date people. wow woman are so dumb

- dookieduke , Boston USA, 09/5/2013 05:30

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Looks like even more privacy being lost ? - Rich , Glasgow, 08/5/2013 18:20 If you have nothing to hide, then what's the problem?

- thebull_politics 2 , London, United Kingdom, 09/5/2013 00:14

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Speaks volumes about some peoples' inadequacies - suffice to say they should visit a pshycologist to get real.

- Faced off , Leeds, United Kingdom, 08/5/2013 19:58

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It might be a fad for a while, but medium term it work because let¿s face it you can pretty much do that on FB anyway if you are so inclined to be a matchmaker.

- Voice of sanity , Wolverhampton, 08/5/2013 18:26

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Looks like even more privacy being lost ?

- Rich , Glasgow, 08/5/2013 18:20

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