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June 12, 2004
Online communities
LinkedIn, orkut. Pet rocks of the early 00s?
Maybe I'm too introverted to start looking for other people when I finally get some time to sit down in front of the machine and interact at my speed, rather than social speed. Do LinkedIn and orkut give you what extraverts miss when they sit down at the world wide library of Babel?
During the 15 minutes I was interested in that stuff, I ran across a (successful?) businessman who I also went to high school with. Andrew Conru runs a variety or more or less smarmy Internet-based contact services, including ones like FriendFinder Inc. If you Google for Andy, however, you quickly come across sites like ALT.com, "World's largest personals for BDSM/Alternative lifestyles!"
What were online communities for again?
Posted by Mark at June 12, 2004 07:08 AM