MySpace for boomers comes with death alerts
A social networking website for Americans aged 50-plus went live on Monday – complete with an online obituary database that sends out alerts when someone you may know dies and that plans to set up a do-it-yourself funeral service.
The founder of internet job site Monster.com, Jeff Taylor, launched Eons.com, a similar site to the popular online teen hang-outs MySpace or Facebook for the 50-plus crowd.
Instead of career and school sections, Eons.com has interactive games to build brain strength, news on entertainment and hobbies for older people, a personalised longevity calculator and tips to live longer.
It also has a nationwide database of obituaries dating back to the 1930s to which people can add photos and comments.
Signed up and ready to go… so to speak. 😉
How long until their are reports of these oldies being tricked by a paedophile into ‘visiting’ them?
That’d be a geriophile…
Oh great, a place to go trolling for gilfs…
It won’t be pediphiles that shuts this place down.. it’ll be the scammers looking to get ahold of old peoples money.. Ban it now before old people are scammed out of their retirements.
Finally, a place for certain members of this community to get hit on.
…and just in time to get outlawed by the government, too.
I’ve noticed that the “kids” like to take over one of the poorest designs online. Back about 15 years ago during the good old dial-up BBSing days. One of the most popular BBS software to run your own BBS was called WWIV (I forget what it stood for).
WWIV had to be the WORST design system I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Public message postings were cumbersome, and you couldn’t even “reply too” another post, with out having to manually say who you’re replying to in the body of the message. The interface sucked, everything had a completely different name from the “normal” to the point where “downloads” were called something else on the main menu.
Now fast forwards to 2006, and we have MySpace that has the exact same awful UI. One of my pet peeves with MySpace is you can’t even post a message on your OWN message board on your main page! How retarded is this? You can’t post ANY responses on any of the public places on your page, other than private messages.
Kids like to use archaic obnoxious and cumbersome interfaces to thwart their parents from bothering to use it.