Owing to the fact that my recent bout of insomnia leaves me often awake but, alas, neither alert nor productive, I’ve been spending a fair amount of time in my laptop’s warm glow. Recently, I found a clever little Web site cum social networking app cum online dating site … Consumating.

Consumating’s motto is something about finding people “who don’t suck,” which I think is about as high as is reasonable to set the bar when meeting people, online setting notwithstanding. The organization and design of the site are simple and inviting (a little ajax magic, I suspect).

The nifty bit is that instead of asking for a bunch of bullshit canned info, the site lets you tag yourself as you would a blog post or a del.icio.us link, and it leaves the question-asking to users. You can also see little live-action snippets of conversations going on between members—enough to satisfy all but the budding voyeur.

Turns out I’m no better at tagging myself than I am my Web links.

The site does have its down sides. You see an awful lot of the ole witty-and-disaffected muscle flexing, as with most social networking sites. Case in point, a search for people who’ve tagged themselves with the word fisting comes up with seven or eight people. Call me old fashioned, but there’s a term for people who give up that kind of info without a few dates and the better part of a bottle of Jack …

Naturally, I was tempted to search for people tagged with skullfucking, but I’m pretty sure the Russians are monitoring my Web use. I refrained.

There’s also the all-too-familiar ranking and voting nonsense. This is somewhat mitigated by the fact that you can vote on anyone without them knowing who, exactly, gave them the thumbs up or down, catering to the spineless coward in all of us.

All in all, it’s a fun way to while away a few pre-dawn hours, but I wouldn’t recommend giving up your clever MySpace handle just yet.