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If you've never used Badoo, I would encourage you to sign up just to see what tactics they use to encourage users to pay, how they do account retention and also how they encourage you to add profile information and photos. Interesting stuff.
Not to mention how overly aggressive they are in their tactics to bring in new members. 'There's one message waiting for you!'
I'm reminded of Reid Hoffman's quote: "Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins."
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Meetup.com - helps you to meet new people with common interests in the physical world. LinkedIn.com - after you met them, to keep track in case you are heavy networker.
Personally I've never met anyone through LinkedIn, just added them after meeting them through some other means. I'm not sure if it is especially geared towards "provoking" people to meet.
interestingly, the worsts were pitching good positions at google... Go figure.
I'm reminded of Reid Hoffman's quote: "Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins."
Max Levchin said much the same thing at Startup School '08, with s/social networks/businesses/. "These sins are so much fun, even though they're deadly people do them anyway."
"Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?" -- jwz, http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html Which is to say, selling sex has always been a nice business.
I bet this kind of service wouldn't take off in my country where lots of 18-34 are already sharing comments and photos real-time and real-location at a mind-splitting rate using their smart phones. Lots of photoshopped pictures, but at least, they're real and they talk back, definitely better "user experience."
As a side note, in my country, a television program features a college girl who boasts that she didn't have to spend a penny for expensive meals and gifts, as she has more than two hundred "SNS friends" who agreed to buy her dinners. It's indeed not an exceptional case. Definitely possible.
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Not to mention how overly aggressive they are in their tactics to bring in new members. 'There's one message waiting for you!'
Almost all of this reminds me of OkCupid.
"Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?" -- jwz, http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html Which is to say, selling sex has always been a nice business.