the auto-rebound button

A friend and I were talking about the online personals and how, apparently, the sites now have all these new, MySpace-like features -- instead of just having a profile and looking at other people's profiles, you can join interest groups, and collect your friends in various networks, and see who's a friend of your friend, because God forbid you date anyone who hasn't already been seen naked by someone you've seen naked.

One important feature of online personals is the ability to take your profile down when you find someone nice. Now, if you've really found someone, like you're going to get married, you could delete the profile entirely. However, if you've just been on a handful of nice dates and want to give it a shot with that person, you might merely want to hide the profile, not delete it, so you could put it back up when that person turns out to have a stuffed-and-mounted contraband collection of severed human hands, or syphilis.

And then my friend suggested that the personals could offer a new feature: an auto-rebound button.

Assuming you had found your old dating partner on the site such that his or her data was stored, you could simply go back online and hit the auto-rebound, and the site would automatically match you up with others who were suspiciously similar to your old dating partner. Auto-rebound!