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Forget words, try pictures



Youniverse, which apparently has been around for a while, has launched a new aspect to their site today, a dating questionnaire based completely on pictures, or in their words, your VisualDNA (a screenshot of the first question is shown above). From there, you are given a dating type (mine was Bashful Blusher), a chance to see how your choices compared with the most popular ones and a shot at connecting with other people similar to you.

It reminds me a bit of OKCupid's design -- do some fun quizzes, compare with others -- but a little bit more put together. The design is cute and clean and the other quizzes -- love, travel and well-being are a few -- are just as addictive.

The quizzes themselves are a bit hit-or-miss, in my opinion, but Youniverse does seem to have created a fun, different, breezy way of finding new people. I enjoy that you can narrow people down by personality type, age and gender, as well as levels of commitment, anxiousness and playfulness. I don't enjoy so much that the most you can narrow down by location is country.

Anyhoo, try it out and let me know what you think.

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Maryann James, an (often) single twenty-something and Baltimore Sun copy editor, is on the prowl for the best stories from Baltimore's dating scene.
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