First up, thanks for checking us out and taking some time to write this up. Regarding the sign-up, you make a good point about “where is home?”, but in our experience finding a decent way to share the location of places you like to hang out has been more difficult (a bit of background: in Asoboo you can share info about good bars or cafes and so on with other users). For example, what works well for Tokyo doesnt really work well for smaller cities like Canberra, Australia.

As for the ‘no dating’ stuff… before the relaunch this year, Asoboo had a bit of a history of being “a bit of a sleazy pick-up spot” (quote from http://jeansnow.net/2006/10/10/asoboo/) and one of the goals for this year has been to shed this image (whether we have been successful or not is another story!) We have been trying to encourage users to be more positive with their profiles, and it seems to be working reasonably well. We should probably soften the tone of that text though :)