Tuesday, January 31, 2012

BostonTCrush.Com: Snap Pictures of Total Strangers on the MBTA and Fall in Love.



(FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - Complain about your commute no more. It looks like the hottest place to meet singles is about to become the T. It may seem unlikely, but a Web site set to launch today is hoping to hook you up with your next boyfriend. The site is called BostonTCrush.com and it's similar to London's TubeCrush and New York's Subway Crush, all sites that allow commuters to upload Smartphone pictures of people they find attractive. It allows other site users to give the unsuspecting riders the thumbs up and give the hotties the chance to find out who they think is cute.

Obviously this is creepy, and obviously this BostonTCrush.com site is going to end up with a major plot line in some "based on a true story" Lifetime Movie, but you know what I do like about this? It'll finally free me up to not feel guilty about trying to snap candid shots of all the vagrants, uggo's, and freak shows I see on the T. 

It's the very rare occasion where I actually snap a pic of someone right now, I always get out my phone, get it positioned just right, and then just have an absolute panic attack about whether I turned the flash and shutter sound off, whether the person sneaky knows that I'm taking a pic, and whether they're just really funny looking, or, funny looking and mentally unstable enough to make an example of me. 

End result, I don't take 99% of the pictures I want to, which is a shame. But now, that's all going to change. Some miscreant gets all upset about me taking their picture? Relax guy, I'm just submitting you to BostonTcrush.com...maybe you'll find your subway riding soul-mate.