MyCircles.com for instance has niche groups for Bikers, Tattoos, Kosher, Asians, Hispanics, Ebony, Gay, Bisexual, Swingers, Fetishes and alternative lifestyles all at the same site.

Scared of your boomer boss or what?

But of course I have issues. And I take issue with superficial generalizations of any group. I tried to put it in humorous mode but you see the thanks I get for attempting to communicate across generational/consciousness divides.

At this point I’m just entertaining myself anyway. I’ve given up on trying to be a positive influence on young people.

“Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Steve Case all come from this generation.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15592086/

Hell, yeah! Add Dave Winer to that list. We may be a bunch of cranks but we got some things done.

We also invented hip hop and shared the invention of punk rock with baby boomers like the Ramones. Take those flowers and choke on ‘em, twitches!

But you kids have done alright for yourselves with what us old folks, preboomers, boomers and jonesers, have provided. You may not have invented the internet or blogging but you did come up with Friendster and ringtones!!!

By the way, we didn’t just stop at Vietnam or flower power or whatever bullshit you picked up from tv. We’re still here and the story of our early years is rarely told with any insight in the mass media junk folks take for reality.

The Generation Jones idea is interesting. That would be my generation except I’ve never heard of it before.

In any case, I network now for the future, not for the past.

BeingParents may just top the list

Frankly I see Eons as less of a social networking site (although they try, bless their hearts) and more of content portal. Or at least that’s what they want to be. The social element (as probably for BoomJ) is to be viral in order to get them to get their friends involved - nothing wrong with that. And yes they tagged their marketing as “myspace for boomers” (just do a search and see how many PR hits come up for them) but their push is all about selling trips, insurance, advice, services etc. - ie much more emphasis/ content laden than people interaction.

Can’t be all things to all people, and Boomers and whatever GenJ is (first I’d ever heard that term, and I’ve been paying a lot of attention to this space over the past year) are as diversified as anyone.

We’ll see. Just seems a bit more juvenile-looking than adult looking though.

The proof is that they don’t adhere to the true definition of a Boomer. The age category that I’ve used is between 1946 and 1965.

Boomj allows people of ANY age to join. Lavalife also has jumped on the bandwagon with their Boomers dating site, prime.lavalife.com. Lavalife Prime’s marketing copy on their site is “Meet Singles 45+”. Now this is clearly a LIE because they allow people who are 40 and over!

EONS is the only site where you must be 50+ in order to join! However, from a usability perspective why even display and allow people to choose birth years prior to 1957?

I am in no way associated with EONS or am I here to promote them. I’m just laying out the facts. Companies have a right to capitalize on plum market segments/niches, but come on – don’t be so blatant about your greed. You won’t win anyway. I myself am not a Boomer (Gen Y) but even I get that you don’t really care about your members. OOP’s, sorry to be politically correct, your “community”

BTW, I like Chris’ definition of Baby Boomers and Generation Jones

Beth Gen Y!

With BOOMj they offer a complete ecommerce package with over 1.2 million sku’s. With baby boomers being the majority of online spending and the growing need to feel “connected” online makes BOOMj a perfect fit for this demographic.

If that wasnt enough BOOMj also is an online portal with news on 7 of the main verticals that baby boomers and generation jones look for when online.

The fact that generation jones (normally considered baby boomers) NOW have a place online as well makes BOOMj the leading site and the best site from what I have seen within this particular niche.

Lets be honest, a baby boomer on myspace to me seems like he might end up on date line with chris hansen. Thats just the vibe it gives off to me. Myspace (however growing number of boomers using it) is a place for young people, even the ads are targeted to that demo.

With boomj even the ads are targeted for that demographic.

BtW, I did not see many ads on this site. NO more then myspace and probably less then them.

-1daysports.com

Generation Jones (the long-lost generation between the Boomers and Xers, born 1954-1965, 26% of all U.S. adults) has been receiving huge media attention in Western Europe, and now increasingly in the U.S. Boomers and Jonesers were both born during the post-WWII 20-year boom in births, but they were raised with very different experiences, which is why so many credible organizations and individuals have been validating the GenJones concept, and spending big chunks of cash targeting Jonesers in business and politics.

What I see as amost significant in this new BOOMj site is that it is taking the offline buzz and interest in GenJones and giving it a home online. If BOOMj succeeds, I’d bet it will be largely because of their seperating Jonesers from Boomers.

Here we go again. Read all about it on TechCrunch and be sure to read some of the comments below the original post about how eons is doing or perhaps not doing in this space. There certainly doesn’t seem to…