The First Date Redux: HowAboutWe
The kindergarten BFFs behind HowAboutWe answer our 15 Questions on New York’s dumpling forecast, Gaga’s passé Telephone and the new first date. Their contribution to society: A non-lame dating site that matches singles based on actual date proposals that start with “How about we …” As in how about we … go to a karaoke bar and butcher songs from our birth year. Pretty genius, right?
Name: Aaron Schildkrout and Brian Schechter
Status: Single and Single
Position: Co-founders of online dating site HowAboutWe.com
Who’s your favorite couple, living or dead, real or fictional?
It’s a tie between Michelle and Barack and Richard and Julia (in Pretty Woman, of course).
Have either of you ever offended anyone on a date?
Um. Yes. (Editor’s note: We tried to pry for juicy deets, sadly Aaron and Brian don’t kiss and tell)
In 140 characters or less, what is HowAboutWe?
HowAboutWe is a new kind of dating website that puts ‘the date’ back in dating — while also taking the ‘online’ out of ‘online dating.’
We’re reluctantly of the non-date generation. What makes you think HowAboutWe can bring the date back?
People get sick of the non-date after a while. They want a more interesting, stimulating experience than a tepid coffee shop conversation.
‘Textversations’ and e-flirting also make us queasy. It’s kinda ironic that Gaga had a hit called Telephone. Have the days of butterfly-inducing phone calls been banished to the same black hole as missing socks and MySpace?
Technology has definitely changed the dynamics of the progression of a relationship. Phone calls can seem like a big intrusion now, whereas they used to be a normal, expected part of courtship. But if a guy is really into you, he will call — just maybe not every day for 45 minutes — and he’ll use texts as an unobtrusive way to let you know he’s thinking about you between calls.
