We recently published a story on gay apps and rated their services (or lack thereof). Today on Bearotic (yeah, I know), Net Bear posted this nifty piece about the iPhone app Scruff. For those who prefer their men a little, um, scruffier, Scruff suits all your needs. This “gay bear finder” was designed by Johnny Scruff  and Eric Silverberg and is described as “a social application for gay bears, musclebears, cubs, otters, leather men, and their admirers. Scruff enables users to create and view profiles based on geo-location, send messages and private images, and check in to neighborhood venues.” You can also like the app for whatever reason on Facebook.
We asked resident bear Greg to download the free app for a test run. “Oh my God! My whole world has just opened up,” was his first reaction. Its similarities to Grindr make it easy to use and some of the features come in pretty handy — you know, for social networking and all that.
Greg and I could do a general browse regardless of where the hirsutes are, but then we had the option to choose “Near” for bears in closer proximity. Like FourSquare, you can check in but neither our office nor immediate businesses around us were coming up. We’re at Fitzhugh and Travis and the closest to us for check-in were all the businesses in Knox-Henderson. Once you’re logged in, you can send someone a “Woof” (which I never understood because bears actually growl) and also click under the “Would you meet this person” with options of “Not My Type” (ouch), “Maybe” and “Definitely.” We clicked the latter for one guy who clocked in at nine blocks away.
Hi, Justin!