Some General Broad Triple Dating Definitions
These are not meant to be any form of hard and fast rules, just some very very general guidelines to help explain the triple dating concept.
Triple Date Buddy & Partner
A triple date buddy or partner is usually someone of the same sex who you hang out with, trust, and go out on triple dates. Example, three girls meet and decide to be triple dating buddies and then seek out three guys to go on a triple date with. Your triple date buddy may sometimes act as matchmaker or point person and approach other potential dates for you in the real world or on mismatched triple dates.
Matchmaker
A matchmaker can be just a friend who introduces you to someone only once or it can be someone with some magical or intuitive flair for hooking people up. They are similar to triple date buddies in some situations but often take a more detached or objective. A matchmaker can often be someone who is happily married or in a committed relationship and wants others to enjoy the same and pass on some wisdom. The term matchmaker is broad and we dont want to overdefine it at the moment. How it relates to our current site is that we will be working on and testing some very specific matchmaking functions for the future. A matchmaker may introduce you to date you did not expect to meet or sometimes vet potential dates for you that you choose. Some matchmakers have extensive offline networks they can tap. At Tripledates we will have some official matchmakers to help grease the wheels of the site where a computer algorithm or profile system cant and we hope to help grow a community of amateur matchmakers to supplement the official ones.
Mismatched or Incomplete group dates - Sometimes Friday or some other night rolls around and people just want to go out. Three girls might agree go out with three guys, but one cant make it, is busy working, car broke down, etc etc or its one girl and guy in the group who are really interested in one another and the rest of the people are along just to hangout. In cases like this one or more people might approach other real world offline singles in bars, clubs, and other venues to ask them if they would like to come along on a triple date. Tripledates.com is meant to bridge the online and offline world and you might meet cool people who are fun to hang out with but you just dont have the romantic chemistry with. Those people can help introduce you to others and are still fun to have along even if its not a perfectly matched group with three pairs of people all with a potential romantic interest in one of the others. Even if you dont have a perfectly matched groups, it might still be good to hang out and go out with other like minded singles because next week or month or year, they might by some strange twist of fate bump into someone who is not right for them but may be right for you and wake up one morning with a vision of how to introduce the two of you.