I have been banging on for ages about the fallacy of social networking sites that are age specific and just when I think the message must have dropped another crop of the ***** appear.I can only assume it is the indomitable positive attitude of my generation that in spite of all of the evidence to the contrary people keep having a go at winning Boomer eyeballs by creating age ghetto web sites.
There is an alternative explanation, which part of me would like to believe, and that is I am wrong and these sites are little gold mines. Will somebody put me out of my misery and tell me what is really happening.
This is a nice article about Boomercafe.com, one of the first Boomer sites that has been going for a decade and run for the fun of it – nothing wrong with that – I guess it was a blog before blogs existed.
These two articles (one and two) contain background about these four new Boomer sites. Hey Ho. Dick Stroud
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I think the issue here is scale and motivation.
Boomercafe is what it is - and Mr. Henderson revealed that "We had venture capitalists approaching us with hair-brained ideas to make millions."
But he knew better.
A new site is Boomer Diva TV. It'll be mostly fun for them - and if they can pay expenses, even turn a buck, great. But that's not the point.
Boomerous is doomed. Like I said a few years ago in a blog post:
If you haven’t guessed already - it’s all about money. They think Baby Boomers with 2 Trillion dollars spending power - and the 3000-ring circus begins.
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So kudos to Boomercafe - and the new Boomer Diva TV.
Boomercafe.com is one of the oldest social networking sites. I like to often visit this site as I have a comfort zone set with it.
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