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April 20, 2004
Friendity closing
I received an email that the German social software site Friendity is closing next week due to lack of participants. I guess this is just a sign that the world has enough of these sort of things now and there doesn't seem be enough of a market on a national scale. Although I also wonder how well the more famous sites like Orkut are doing? It seems ages since I last logged in and really I don't see any reason to. These sites don't provide me with anything I need.
Posted by Matthew at April 20, 2004 05:41 PM
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strange...
i am living in germany and online at least 2 hours a day ... but i had never heard of friendity before. none of my coworkers did, either.
no wonder they closed down...
Posted by: cs at April 20, 2004 06:54 PM
It seems that Orkut is still doing well. The important thing to realize is that it provides you with another avenue to spam people ;P. Just send a message to friends of friends of someone who has 100 or more friends and you just got a ton of people! Most of the messages I receive are of that type. I suppose if I had no friends or wife that I might spend more time using a tool like that, but I doubt it.
Posted by: Berin Loritsch at April 20, 2004 07:16 PM
Berin,
it always struck me that these sites were really more suited to the "dating game" - although I think something like LinkedIn has potential (from a more business perspective). If only it were used more (but I'm no better than any other LinkedIn member I guess).
Matthew
Posted by: Matthew Langham at April 20, 2004 07:44 PM