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This new app saves you time by immediately setting you up for a date

​No chatting, no swiping, no liking—just pick a date and meet up.

Black couple on a date.

Ask any 20-something how they met their significant other, and there’s a decent chance their first interaction was digital.

But remember when first dates were just that? You know, dates—where you’d go out and get to know each other over coffee, rather than messaging back and forth before making eye contact?

This real-life interaction is exactly what First—a new dating app that just launched on iOS—is all about, reports Mashable.

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Here’s how it works: You post a date you’d like to go on, name the time and place, and other people in your area that are your preferred age and gender can request to join you.

If you get multiple requests, then you get to pick the person you’d like to go out with—but it stops there. No chatting, no swiping, no liking of anything. You don’t even get their number.

And don’t even think about calling it off last minute. A date closes four hours before the official time that was set.

If something pops up, you can try and contact customer service, but you’re still marked as a “no-show.”

Two of those and you’re banned from using the app again.

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It seems old-fashioned, especially in the swipe-right era, but getting that first face-to-face hello out of the way has the potential to save you some time.

Think about it, you might spend a week or two talking to someone on Tinder before you agree to meet.

On First, you get that initial interaction out of the way immediately, so you can feel out the connection from the very beginning.

That’s the whole point. The goal is “getting you off of your phone and onto the date,” the app’s founder, Truman Kain, told Mashable.

Logistically, it does have its setbacks. What if someone is just looking for a free meal?

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Wouldn’t communication get confusing without their number? What if your date sucked and just marked you as a no-show because they didn’t like you?

And you never really know who you’re going to meet when you don’t get a chance to talk to them—what if the person ends up being a total kook?

All that aside, if the idea of a blind date excites you—and you’re sick of how impersonal modern dating apps have become—it might be worth a try.

Just avoid these first date mistakes when you finally meet up—so you don’t sabotage your relationship before it even starts.

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