Five minutes seems to be the magic window that attracts people’s attention in the world of any, where anything better and more interesting lies just one click away with your sticky fingertips. Five minutes’ worth of TV or movie is all we need, minisoding our way through the entertainment plethora. And the same goes for dating:

“Meet 5 people in 5 minutes and see who woos you” is the motto of woome.com, the Expectations society’s equivalent of speed dating. Dating transformed into minidating. Similar to minisoding, minidating is more about squeezing the juice out of (time-consuming and, chances are, tedious) full-length dates than about finding an actual partner. In the world of any, where you can meet anyone, anywhere, anytime (and happily-ever-after may last about 55 hours), who wants to (expects to!) find a partner? Bring on the dating, and keep ‘em coming, there are so many people to date!

Woome.com has become a favorite pastime for young (which is becoming harder and harder to define in the Expectations society) people all over the world. Jump in anytime, there is always a few dozen sessions going on, with five people in each available for you to minidate. Choose sessions and people with different looks, interests, themes, from different regions. If, for some reason, something caught your fancy, just favorite it and you can minidate again some time in the future (’cause why would you want to pursue further right then and there, you already minidated the juiciest part?)

Beside the fact that minidating allows you to sample more of the world of any, what makes it appealing is that alluring almost. On full-length (not to mention consecutive) dates with a person, you get to know all the details, the good with the bad. And the magic starts fading. It’s the uncertainty, the mystique in meeting a (more or less) stranger that makes the date tantalizing. Not knowing it all, being tickled by the things you expect to find out. Minidates are all about the tickling and none of the knowing.