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"You guys, I already feel like online dating is too much work. I am not up for this new challenge. I&amp;#x27;m so tired. It&amp;#x27;s already hard enough to select the perfect profile pictures that make me look pretty (but not better than in real life, a.k.a. that one picture where I look way skinnier than I am), cool, interesting, like I&amp;#x27;m not trying too hard, and, of course, are duck-face-free. And now you people want me to create a video that does all the above plus involves me showcasing some quirky talent? Grrr. Off my lawn. Here&amp;#x27;s the sitch: Charm is a new dating app that looks and appears to function very much like Tinder, with the main difference that instead of swiping left to reject 98 percent of the photos you view, you swipe left to reject 98 percent of the videos you view. Here&amp;#x27;s a little sample of some videos you might see: Sure, in some ways I get it. You can acquire a more accurate sense of a person from a video&amp;amp;#8212;his voice and his un-photoshopped facial expressions&amp;amp;#8212;and besides, all the kids today just seem crazy about their Vines and Instagram videos. I can see this being a thing among a younger crowd than I run with, which is basically how I feel about Tinder anyway. On the other hand, I can also see it turning into a prime opportunity for penis videos instead of penis pics, so no thanks on that one. (Update: Charm&amp;#x27;s team very politely emailed me to let me know they have a zero-tolerance policy for nudity&amp;amp;#8212;and hate speech&amp;amp;#8212;and that they review all videos within minutes of them being posted. I&amp;#x27;d actually prefer a penis pic to hate speech, so I&amp;#x27;m very glad they ban both!) Anyway, you should go ahead and test it out if you&amp;#x27;re really into the mini-video craze. It might be fun! Report back! I, on the other hand, will be over here mourning a simpler time while sadly singing &amp;quot;Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?&amp;quot; (Related Paula Cole reference that probably proves exactly why I am too old for this app: should this be my Charm video if I decide to give it a try?) Do you like the idea of a video instead of a pic to represent a potential date? What would your video be?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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