The Internet seems to be the virtual playground for young adults in the 21st century. With each new Web 2.0 site that surfaces, there are more and more resources for young adults to interact with each other. From YouTube to MySpace to Facebook to LiveJournal, there is a common trend with Internet usage that consistently isolates a very large population of Internet users from similar social networking experiences. We’re talking here about your parents and others, or shall we say, more mature adults.
MyTimeHero.com is a community for adults to meet up, share their life experiences, their stories, favorite photos and more, according to its founders Josh Olin and Ian Paterson, Rochester Institute of Technology sophomores.
“With all of the slang, immature behavior, and whacky interests our youth share on MySpace, it is very difficult for an adult to ‘fit in with the crowd,'” Olin says.
“And worse yet,” Paterson says, “they may try and we collectively groan ‘creepy.’ MyTimeHero.com provides a comfortable alternative for this more mature audience.”
Originally posted on May 3, 2007 @ 8:10 am
Isn’t this “verticalization” trend (or fragmentation) in social networking getting a little out of hand? I for one would like to see some convergence / consolidation in the space.
Disclosure: I am a co-founder of Cylive (http://www.cylive.com) – a social publishing site.