Why would that be &quot;controversial&quot;?<p>It sounds like (without looking at your site: it&#x27;s blocked for me) you&#x27;re basically just setting up something like a dating site, but with a focus on meeting friends nearby rather than dating partners.<p>I&#x27;ve never seen a dating site (except Tinder) which didn&#x27;t have basic properties plainly visible for every person in their profile: sex, age, marital&#x2F;relationship status, religion, ethnicity, kids, and usually a bunch more like pets, income, job, etc.  People discriminate when looking for dating partners all the time, and for good reason.  If you&#x27;re a 20-year-old hetero atheist female, you&#x27;re probably not going to want to date a 70-year-old hetero evangelical female.  It&#x27;s not that different when looking for friends; most people form friendships starting from some shared trait or experience, and tend to avoid people they aren&#x27;t likely to get along with.  Religion is a pretty big factor here: a devout Muslim is not likely to get along with a devout Jew or Christian, and similarly an liberal atheist or agnostic is not likely to get along with a Bible-thumping conservative Christian.<p>So why wouldn&#x27;t you want to help people find people they can get along with?  If all you&#x27;re doing is trying to push together people because they just happen to leave within a half-mile of each other, that&#x27;s doomed to failure IMO.