More things the world doesn’t need, part 523 of an on going series
You’re probably sitting down when you read this, just as well because what I have to say will knock you off your feet, have you rushing for the nearest internet explorer window, and thinking that enlightened beings have given divine wisdom to us all…
conde Nast have decided to launch a *drum roll…………………* social networking site for teenage girls. Flip.com
Yep, flip.com
flip, flop, flip, flop, flip,
Exactly what we the internet needs!
The marketing blurb about the sites read “These girls are so creative, they create shrines within their environment”. “It must be the hormones - they customize everything”
Does it offer anything you can’t already do on facebook, myspace, bebo, and the host of other sites already sucking minutes, hours, days out of our lives just wondering if any of our ‘friends’ have ‘popped’ by?
Not really, in fact it’s hard to look at it as anything more than an application where you can make a digital flip book of photo’s, images and music which reflect the user. In some ways this isn’t even untapped as slideshow applications have been kicking around for years.
It’s hard to see the site bringing people back to it after they ‘customised everything’ because the content can then be plugged into other social networking sites. It’ll be interesting to see how the site grows and develops, it just smacks a little bit of ‘me to’ and stealing the pennies off dead mens eyes
July 9th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Excellent point well put. The cinic in me would speculate that this latest CN venture, as un-innovative as it sounds, is merely a ploy to increase inventory for “premium rate” sale across their portfolio. Ho-hum!!
August 11th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Any serious Facebooker or Myspacer won’t really bother with this! Flip.com looks too much like other social networking sites already in use but without the added incentive of a large number of regular users to connect to…