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Toothing was originally a media hoax that claimed that Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones or PDAs were being used to arrange random sexual encounters. A hoax is an attempt to trick an audience into believing that something false is real. ...
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Toothing
It appears that toothing started around March 2004, in the form of a fake forum designed by Ste Curran, then Editor at Large at games magazine Edge, and ex-journalist Simon Byron. On April 4, 2005, the creators of the forum admitted that the whole thing was a hoax.[1] Look up fake in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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In toothing, a Bluetooth device is used to "discover" other enabled devices within about 30 feet (10 meters), then send the expression toothing? as an initial greeting. In addition, or when sending of text messages via Bluetooth is not possible, the Bluetooth name of the phone can be set to toothing? or something else to indicate interest. Since the hoax, there have been real Bluetooth dating devices to hit the market.
Although created as a hoax, bluetoothing merged the very credible concepts of short-range wireless networking and desire for sexual partners. Recent news from more credible sources shows some evidence of real usage of Bluetooth for this purpose in (generally concurred) public places. Given the limited functionality and poor usability of standard Bluetooth implementations to support messaging, it is not surprising that wider usage of it would only arise in extreme dating situations. Bluetoothing is an example of localized social networking, which is becoming increasingly popular. A hoax is an attempt to trick an audience into believing that something false is real. ...
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Similar hoaxes A similar hoax was attempted in July of 2005. This hoax proposed a sexual practice called "greenlighting," in which men and women wore green shirts with the collars turned up, and had sexual relations with whoever turned the collars down. In truth, no such sexual practice has taken place on any notable scale. The hoax similarly involved posts to the blogosphere, and various sites that purported to coordinate and discuss among "greenlighters".
It was immediately speculated to be a hoax by many users at Metafilter, where the first external link to the forum was posted. The hoaxers abandoned their attempt on the morning of July 6 after information about the deception was posted to Wikipedia. The organizers of the attempted hoax later posted their "memoirs" on the site. MetaFilter, known as MeFi to its members, is a community weblog whose purpose is to share links and discuss interesting websites. ...
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Concurrently with this, the journalist Cyrus Farivar, who had been among the bloggers casting suspicion on the hoax, found links from the Wookiefetish website in his referrer logs. He registered an account on the forum to access the messages and found proof that the site was a hoax, revealing it on his blog. Farivar later wrote a column about the hoax and his role in exposing it for Slate Magazine. [1] Categories: Magazines stubs | Microsoft subsidiaries | Websites | The Washington Post ...
There are new serious attempts on using Bluetooth for "flirting", but not only to find a "lover", a friend, a book or any other object. This comes from Bluetooth in Love. [2]. This application is being devoloped in Spain by Yerbabuena Software. [3]
Trivia - Toothing is referenced in an episode of CSI Miami when a character loses his police badge in conjunction with such a hookup.
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Wireless dating, Widating or Bluedating (from Bluetooth) is a form of dating which makes use of mobile phone and Bluetooth technologies. ...
This Siemens M75 is Bluejacking the Sony Ericsson K600i pictured below This Sony Ericsson K600i is getting Bluejacked by the Siemens M75 pictured above Bluejacking is the sending of unsolicited messages over Bluetooth to Bluetooth-enabled devices such as mobile phones, PDAs or laptop computers, sending a vCard which typically...
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