Falling in Love Wirelessly

It's Valentine's Day. Most people I know are walking around treating today as if it were a communicable disease - fleeing as fast as they can - preferably to the place furthest from couples, cafes and chocolates. It's just another day. No need to take out the haz-mat suit. Interestingly enough, Sprint launched SMS.ac - a mobile community offering dating services similar to that of online dating services - where mobile users can create profiles and communicate one-on-one via text message and possibly - find a date.

Now, obtaining a date in person usually involves a few steps. There's the flirt, the glance, the laugh, the smile....hillarity often ensues. Let's package all of that up and put it right into your wireless phone - with Sprint's SMS.ac you can flirt, go clubbing or access your horoscope in an effort to make sure that prince/princess charming is, in fact, the right one.

But flirting is going to cost ya! You can search profiles to find your date for a mere $.25 per text message. Interested in clubbing? Hop online and participate in mobile communities ("clubs") - basically, a user starts a conversation with other club members by sending the club a message. Then members of the club can reply with messages about their thoughts and comments. A user can send a message for free and pays $0.25 per message received. Users can choose how many messages they want to receive per day.

Maybe I'm jaded, but that sounds like an awful lot of work. Something has to be said about the cramping from all that texting. Isn't it so much easier to do it the old fashioned way?

At a bar, a restaurant, a cafe.....or, if your lucky.... the bread aisle of your local grocery store.