Spotted in Review

Signing up on Spotted is easy. It only takes less than a minute since it doesn't have an email registration option. You'd only need to connect your Facebook account that automatically syncs your name, profile photo, gender, and birthday. 

After that, you have a fully functioning account ready to use. You would immediately notice a display of members on your homepage. If you'd look further, you'd see that most of these people are near your location.

The idea behind this is for you to connect with people you are more or less likely to come across, may it be in a mall, the town's public library, or the local watering hole. 

Indeed, Spotted aims to be the medium not just to interact with people in the virtual world but also in real life. 

Spotted, at its very core, is a dating app designed to spot locals for you to connect, meet and mingle with. Its features allow you to have a take two of your encounter with that cute girl or that quirky boy who has caught your eye but you haven't had the guts to say hello at that time. 

The "Notes" feature most definitely embodies the spirit of Spotted. When you "spot" a cute girl, wearing a red sweater, at the local coffee shop, you can write an anonymous note describing her and tagging the location where you've seen her. The note may or may not reach her. Similarly, she may or may not also respond to the note. 

The other features are common with other dating apps. Spotted has a chat function where you can instantly message other members. Unfortunately, this function is only available for paid members.

For standard members, you get to "reveal" one profile per day. This means you can go to a member's profile and see their location. Of course, you can only do this once per day. If you have availed of Spotted's premium offers, you can browse through profiles to your heart's content. 

While viewing profile photos are free, profiles information, on the other hand, require a premium membership.  A Standard member can only view up to one profile fully per day. Nevertheless, it is still very much important to have a fully fleshed-out profile. This will help increase your authenticity as a person while attracting other members to interact with you. 

You can start by uploading images. You can upload images from your phone's gallery or sync them from Facebook. You can have six photos at maximum displayed. You can also write a brief description of yourself and who you are looking for in the "About You" section.

Another tip: provide information about your eye color, hair color, and body art, if applicable. The main highlight of this app is the "Notes" where people can look for other people they have spotted based on their eye and hair description. So if a person is looking for a red-haired-green-eyed-girl-with-a-heart-tattoo, if the description fits you, you will more or less likely pop up in the search creating a perfect, serendipity moment. 

While the app promotes its security based on Facebook authentication, not all people who have Facebook are legit. Fake profiles are still present on the app so always be careful of who you are talking to.