7. Single Booklovers

The look: The pic by the membership dues is of two "intellectuals" hiding from human contact and their own crippling social anxiety behind their Herman Melville ... on separate park benches with the caption, "Ah, bliss." As featured on NPR!

• The geeks: Predictably verbose in what might as well be the essay portion of the site. Best you can hope for here is a bookworm with Harlequin romance leanings. No pics, so no steamy nerd glasses on dreamy college TAs to get your inner Henry Miller perv cogs turning.

• The verdict: For geeks who can read good.

The look: The only thing about the site that signifies "gaming" is the pic of a console control on the main page, the one next to the little turtle-necked people in the corner who look like they gel hair for a living.

• The geeks: Don't even have to identify what platform or game genre they're into. What? So everybody is as excited about 'Gossip Girl' the RPG as me?...
  

• The verdict: ...Probably not. The mystery doesn't work on a site pushed at lonely singles who pick video games over people daily. They're like grizzly bears -- only seeing you when in motion and playing the Wii.