Comments on: TBD’s Deadpool Date Finally Determined

By: مركز تحميل

مركز تحميل — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:52:17 +0000

I’d rather read insights from others here about business practices than attend a virtual support group for entrepreneurs.

By: منتديات

منتديات — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:48:14 +0000

The problem though is that older people want to hang out where their kids are, and the kids don’t want that.

By: Rhea

Rhea — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:44:13 +0000

I agree completely. The demographic is way too broad. Appealing to baby boomers along the lines of a specific interest would make more sense.

By: The Savvy Boomer

The Savvy Boomer — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:51:07 +0000

TBD RIP…

I’ve posted about a lot of sites that felt they had the right recipe to become the main social networking site for boomers. I’ve never felt there was a formula that would allow any of them to become anymore than……

By: Phil Owens

Phil Owens — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:46:33 +0000

Cougars aren’t pathetic if they are in better shape than the men their own age and younger men are really interested. And what if the older man can bench press more than the average 20 something man, doesn’t need Viagra or a Porsche and still dates the 20 somethings because they value his knowledge on top of the benchpressing? And why insult what could be a Harvard Student or a Sorbonne student with the lipstick comment? TBD didn’t sound like a dating site but men will socialize with younger women and marry them. We need to be mindful of sour grapes.

Did TBD force people to display their age in profiles? If so, that in itself would have spelled the death knell.

By: Phil Owens

Phil Owens — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:21:29 +0000

Let’s be more specific and cut to the chase:

Men want to socialize often enough with younger women. An older woman founds a company promoting the idea that men her age socialize with her and her age group. This is called an attempt at social engineering (and protectionism from social competition) but you can’t change human nature. All social networking sites will fail that dissuade young women from joining.

By: Phreddy Tran

Phreddy Tran — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:43:17 +0000

They could have just used Ning for free in the first place.

By: Joe Jamma

Joe Jamma — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:51:21 +0000

Baby Boomers already have a place where they will all gather. It’s called HELL. That’s right. The spawn of the greatest generation, is apparently the worst generation. All rampant materialism, greed, and evilness in the world can be traced to this last group of back stabbers. All corporate speak BS(where’s the cover page on your TPS report) can be traced to these worthless suckups and yes man.

I hear Satan is hiring for the surge in new residents coming over the next 20 years.

F the baby boomers.

By: swag

swag — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:47:05 +0000

It’s a fallacy that online communities work best as one soup of the unwashed masses. Ever since the early days of Usenet where every pet group with any mass always wanted to splinter into their own pet.sub.sub.group, online communities tend to splinter. Facebook is really an anomaly in the past 25 years of online communities, not the winner-takes-all rule.

And sure, Ms. Hardaway, maybe it’s fun to hang out with the 20-somethings when you’re 50, but after a while that gets to be as sad and pathetic as a slobbering midlife crisis wreck, with his Porsche and Viagra, parading around with arm candy that just learned how to apply lipstick.

By: francine hardaway

francine hardaway — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:41:44 +0000

Thank God. I knew it was no good from day one, even though it was aimed at me. I could care less where the older people are; I want to go where the interesting people are, no matter what the age. Hope Eons fails, too. They are both ageistic. Is there such a word?

By: Hank

Hank — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:38:37 +0000

Is it just me or do all Sarah’s posts start with “I”, “me” and some hyperlinking to “I & me”?
Sure its all about content, but I find this stuck-up form rather annoying.

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By: antje wilsch

antje wilsch — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:12:24 +0000

boomers are the fastest growing online demographic, yes (and they have money to spend). once you get into the 60’s it’s now about 75% penetration (although ‘online penetration’ wasn’t defined – did that just mean basic browsing and email, for example) and dropped off pretty rapidly at age ~70. I do a lot of work in senior centres (which is considered anything aged 55+ ) and that curve seems to fit with the people I deal with.

By: antje wilsch

antje wilsch — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:09:16 +0000

They can all come to our site instead….. we’re not going anywhere! http://www.StoryOfMyLife.com/

By: meh

meh — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:26:01 +0000

“And 500 TBDers have already joined a network at Ning”

Wow…those are staggering numbers. What did you spend all the millions on? Seriously, building a soc net site that can sustain the minuscule traffic TBD had shouldnt cost anywhere above $100k on the high end. But of course they needed PR people, marketing people, community managers, BD people, etc etc…might want to prove the idea before bringing on the bloat.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:21:47 +0000

That was my immediate thought. To me the whole idea would have been a nonstarter.

By: will

will — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:42:03 +0000

and by the way to echo puranjay, having also checked out eons, i would just like to say if your epileptic, be careful!

By: will

will — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:39:40 +0000

is it just me or arent people in their 40s more likely to be on facebook than choose to be classified alongside the baby boomers who are, in general pensioners?

then when you get into the 60 70 + age, how many are going to actually go on the web? i would have thought you would be extremely optimistic to say half?

By: Sheriff Bing-Bing-Bing

Sheriff Bing-Bing-Bing — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:37:57 +0000

>Funding: $4.8M

OUCH!!

By: Phreddy Tran

Phreddy Tran — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:31:40 +0000

P.S. No one’s picking on Robin here. I haven’t read any ad hominem attacks here yet. If anyone, it’s the investors who should be criticized for not asking the hard questions.

By: Phreddy Tran

Phreddy Tran — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:24:18 +0000

What if you look at it this way: “Better to have tried and lost $4.8 million than to not have tried…”

Or is cold, hard rationalism too mean-spirited for the TechCrunch crowd?

I’d rather read insights from others here about business practices than attend a virtual support group for entrepreneurs.

By: dasein

dasein — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:20:40 +0000

Bingo. Spot on.

By: Puranjay

Puranjay — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:14:25 +0000

Btw, I just checked out Eons.com and happened to click on a member profile.

Man, they’re partying like its MySpace from 2004 over there!

By: Puranjay

Puranjay — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:13:14 +0000

No one likes to be reminded how old they are. Sites like these are doing exactly that.

There is a market for such a website however, seeing how most of us would hate to be friends with mom and dad on Facebook – no more drunk party pics.

The problem though is that older people want to hang out where their kids are, and the kids don’t want that.

By: joe

joe — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:11:57 +0000

Completely agree. Probably should have changed their name to be “name not yet determined” because tbd is very vague. Does that mean the site is still developing so “come back later at anoter time” because it sounds like a landing page like website construction, opening later, hah! If it was a site like E-vite, it could have promoted cool parties but the destination was not yet determined, so keep refershing the page! Hidden prize money TBD!