Do you want to bang your friends ? Do you, … really ?

Now there's an application that gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “hanging out with friends”, and unquestionably can spice up your social life ; either for good or for bad, that is your decision to make. You see, to use an argument that has been mostly utilized to criticize political systems, this application  is glorious in its conception, but I’m afraid fails miserably when it comes to its actual use.

Bang with friends, is a short (in terms of time taken to realize) collaborative effort of three college students, wanting to give a twist to the term “mingle”. According to FastCoDesign’s initial presentation article : “Bang With Friends is the simplest, most disruptive app Facebook has seen in a long time”. Read the presentation here. “The premise is so obvious, you’ll kick yourself for not thinking of it first. You install the app, then the app lists your Facebook friends of the opposite sex. You click if you’d like to “bang” them, and no one ever knows . . . that is, unless one of those friends installed the app and elected to bang you, too. Bang With Friends makes finding a mate as easy as window shopping on Pinterest”.

Allright, one more time. You sign up, using Facebook. It won’t show up on your newsfeed or profile, but you will be able to see who is already using the app, and when signing up, future users will be able to see that you’ve signed up too. That means you get a page full of your friends that are “down to bang”. Next, you select the Facebook friends that you’d like to bang. They won’t know that you want to bang them unless they sign up and are interested in banging you too. Once both parties express interest, the site will send both of you an email notifying you that the other is ready to rumble, and the rest is up to you.

And there is where the fun – or potential problems begin – depending on how you look at it. As you all are aware, in your FaceBook friends list, you have also members of your family (mother, a younger sister, maybe), colleagues, etc. ; possibly people that you DO NOT want them to know your “availability” status, or even worse you DO NOT wish to find out what is theirs !

I guess some ... filtering ... of some sort, might help. No matter how fast the app may have been drafted, I guess what stated above is “basic” thinking, ... right ? Well, unless of course the application’s purpose is different to the one stated.

According to the creators the popularity of the application, increases by the minute. On the other hand a similar application “Bang With Professionals” attempting to promote an identical concept over LinkedIn, was shut down by the social net’s admins. Well, for more insight and criticism read here and here. Best of all try it yourself, that should keep the word of mouth circulating, and let you form your own “personalized” opinion. Either nice or lame, you will surely be down for a surprise. May I remind you also, that FaceBook already allows you to “poke” someone, should you wish to initiate something, and that now with FB Graph going about, you have the capability of sorting through your connections, to identify people that may be interested in a similar way to you.

Alternatively you may want to use Tinder or WouldLove2, that let's say take a more "conventional" approach to the whole matter.