This month, a new dating website is popping up in the midst of the Ashley Madisons and OkCupids of online matchmaking: findyourfacemate.com. The premise? Find a partner who looks like you, then date him or her.
Using face-recognition technology, findyourfacemate.com will allow you to find other users on the site who look like you based on nine facial points of similarity. Once you discover your doppelgangers, you can pick from the crop based on typical dating website fare, like personal values and hobbies.
The founder, Christina Bloom, came up with the idea for this website after people kept telling her that she and her ex-husband “looked like brother and sister.” (I don’t know about you, but someone saying that would just give me the willies, not an idea for a new business venture.)
Though facial resemblance may actually be a real phenomenon in relationships, I don’t know if I’d want to actively seek out someone who looks like me. I’m kind of anticipating someone unknowingly finding–and dating!–their long-lost brother or sister because of this website. Of course my mind goes to the worst possible scenario, but still…ew. I worry about this stuff.
What do you think about this website? Would you mind dating someone who looks like you–or is that too creepy?
orchid / 115 posts
i dont know, i have a bad feeling that my doppelganger is gonna turn out to look like my dad :S
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Ferk ye I’d fuck myself. lol
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I’m not really attracted to guys that look like me, I’d feel like I was dating my brother or something – it would just be too weird.
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LOL. i wouldn’t do it, firstly, i don’t want people thinking we’re related and secondly, what if they’re ugly?! whats this website trying to tell me..
would be funny to do it just to see who comes up, though..
orchid / 127 posts
People generally find people of equal attractivness most attractive so it makes sense.
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kinda creepy.
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People think my husband and I are siblings all the time. I think it’s cause we are both light skinned and have high cheekbones…other than that, I don’t see it. It might have more to do with the fact that we are so comfortable with one another and look like we’re 16.
I wouldn’t mind trying that dating site out for kicks, though. I’m not on the market of course, but I think it’d be fun to see how I’d look as a guy and if I’d think the male me is attractive.
lily / 5148 posts
Weirdddddddddddddd
daisy / 658 posts
i don’t think its a bad idea actually, if people are matched based on how much they are it kind of also matched on level of attractiveness, and that wouldn’t hurt would it. to have someone whos as attractive as you to date you now would it.
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People used to tell me that my ex and I looked like siblings, because we had the same hair and eye colors. I disagreed.
Kinda gross.
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Hot.
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shouldn’t it be narcissists.com
I’ve totally always wanted to date me
not. they are taking the soul mate thing to a creepy incest-like level. the guys that I’ve been attracted to don’t really look like me, but they look similar to each other, so I have a particular type that I’m drawn to. I don’t use dating sites, so it won’t matter to me.
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I read a study about this website that, it’s always good to date a person that looks like you, because, if you two are both attractive, each of you will be less likely to cheat on each other. The same principle applies for you and your mate, if you’re both ugly.
My opinion on this? Just because A leads to B, and B leads to C, doesn’t mean A = C
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considering no guy in my family looks like me it wouldn’t be that bad.. but yea i wouldn’twant to online date ever
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funny how she said it’s her
ex-husband
when it’s a dating site
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@raspbxrrryjam@xanga - lmao hahahhaha
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No way, I would never be able to come out of my bedroom.
orchid / 177 posts
I had a friend who could’ve been my twin brother…We always laughed about it and I thought we were on brother and sister basis. It was super creepy when he told me about his undying love for me and wanted to date me. It was way too wierd. No freaking way would I date, and subsequently get intimate with, someone who I felt could be my brother.
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well that narcissism at it’s finest…. no thank you…..
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link doesn’t work?
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I am all for narcissists finding a perfect partner. Don’t people end up looking at least a little bit like each other, eventually? I mean, after they’ve been sleeping together for a long time. It’s a dna thing, I’m sure.
I don’t think a girl COULD look like me, as I consider myself to be a rare specimen or feat of humanity. Nevertheless, I would love to meet me female doppelganger and see how we feel about genetic experimentation >:)
daisy / 571 posts
lmao; i could dig that.
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I mean, the thing is couples tend to look more and more alike as time goes on.
People are attracted to similarity, but finding someone who was too similar seems to go against evolution as far as genetic diversity?
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I find it interesting that people go out with those who look like themselves. I certainly see it a lot, and I do find it disturbing
. Given in my local area, there are several streets named after my ancestors, and originally there were only 200 families (later immigrants not included) perhaps there is a reason: We’re all fucking inbred! Argh! Seriously though, I don’t think anyone I have loved looks anything like me, nor would I go out of my way to find someone who does. For people who do go out with those who look like themselves, I do not think it is a conscious decision, so people using this dating site are definitely freaky.
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It’s strange because if you actually have siblings, it’ll be weird for your match to look like your own brother/sister or even parents. Then, when you get married and have kids, they will look like you. Sounds like the closest thing to cloning. Freaky!
dahlia / 2012 posts
I’d only date a woman who looked similar to me, not a man. I don’t think a male version of me would be very attractive. That being said, I think the idea of seeking compatibility via physical similarities is way too gimmicky to have any real success. I wonder what the longevity of those relationships is on average.
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@Sillymooface@xanga - EXACTLY what I was going to point out!
hydrangea / 71 posts
“(I don’t know about you, but someone saying that would just give me the willies, not an idea for a new business venture.)” LOL. My thoughts exactly. I don’t know, the whole “your future husband will be like your father” is something I’ve ignored, cause it’s weird.
peony / 1 posts
@laughxlovextravel@xanga - @miiszcam@xanga - @tst08@xanga - @bittersweetromantic@xanga - @TequilaKisses@xanga - See http://www.soul2match.com. This website is online and they are the first facial recognition dating site that introduced this concept. You can also check your current relationship or find your look- alike…
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It’s scientifically proven that people are attracted to people who look like them. Plus, where I am currently living (in South Korea), it’s a HUGE compliment to tell a couple they look like brother and sister. Not at all creepy from this culture’s point of view.
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I think this is interesting because from an evolutionary perspective, we tend to want to find a mate that is most genetically DISsimilar to us in order for the human genome to become more diverse.
orchid / 183 posts
Well psychologically we find couples cuter when they have the same hair colour, but if you’re an outside party does your opinion really count?
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ewww, too selfish and ewww again eww
orchid / 217 posts
One of my friends dated a guy that looks like her..They dated for 4 months than got engaged. They’ve now been married for 6 months & they’re happy. This is a girl who didn’t want to date because she said it was pointless & that she didn’t need a guy to be happy. She met him on geek2geek.com lol
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….Why.
tulip / 9 posts
@miiszcam@xanga - The website hasn’t launched yet–it’s supposed to sometime this month. (But I’ll probably check it out too once it does!)
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@Brie - haha okay good to know. word, i want to check it out too just to see the male version of me lol
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I wouldn’t want someone who looked like me…. I hope to have children
with more averaged-out features, though there is no guarantee it works that
way.
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Ew. My bf is like my opposite in looks, and I love that.
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I don’t think the site is to find someone that looks like you exactly, but more so features that are similar. This makes sense, because most people are comfortable staying within their own cultures when choosing a mate, and generally chose people that in the same ‘league’ as them.
cherry blossom / 32 posts
My boyfriend & I look really really similar, it stands out a ton when you look at our daughter who looks exactly like both of us.
daisy / 507 posts
no no.. that’d be totally creepy lol
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Honestly I think it would be pretty weird.
On the other hand, I would want to try it just to see what kind of guys pop up.
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not creepy. just incredibly narcissistic hahaha
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Anyone who looks like me would be too girly for my taste. Also, if you had kids, there’d be no fun in hearing “oh you just look like your mother!”
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@Sillymooface@xanga - lol ikr
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welp, according to this i needz me a big fat hairy woman
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i noticed after a while you tend to look like your partner. even if initially you did not, so this isn’t that weird at all.
hydrangea / 59 posts
If my doppleganger looks like me, it doesn’t prove all Asians look the same.
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people have said the guy I’m with and I look alike. it doesn’t bother me. haha.
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I honestly think it’s a kind of mind trick that our brains play on us. There’s a girl I know, she was in a relationship with one guy and when you saw them, especially in photos, they looked alike. And then they broke up and each got in new relationships. Now the guy she was seeing and his new girl, they don’t really look a like. But the girl and her new guy look a like. The girl and her old guy no longer look a like and the two guys definitely don’t look like each other.
That, boggles my mind.
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I don’t really find myself attractive so no… I would not date someone who had the same features as me… :/
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mmm…i dont think so
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What can I say, I’d make an unattractive male.