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Social networking / Hookup sites.
In essence, dating sites with blogs, email, pms, forums etc attached to them.
Ive seen two beta stage site launches today from various companies and i have to say, these sites look really good.
Will be interesting to see how many more affiliate programs jump on this bandwagon over the coming weeks/months.
Regards,
Lee
Urls please. :D
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Wouldn't mind seeing how this was put together as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xstr8guy
I might have some personally issues with this one, I mean I am cool with making money and all, but really don’t like to allow viewers to interact on any of my sites. I created a bulletin board God what 5 years ago, and all the viewers did was pretend to be 14 year olds, and post CP. After all the policing and I think some guy posting a nude pic of a 8 year old I shut it down permanently.
I just don’t want to be involved with people hooking up, possibly spreading some STD’s, trying to molest kids, or posting CP :uhoh:
I was going to post about this in Max's recent failing industry thread, but it goes along with the theme here too.
Adult social networking online is in it's infancy. There are adult versions of MySpace that are free, and most blog services already allow adult material. So I wouldn't be too high on these initial paid versions unless they have made interesting developments (which is highly unlikely).
One thing that needs to be said is that for every person doing "social networking" online hoping to meet up in real life, there are probably hundreds of people with no intent to ever meet who just want to look at people's photos and MAYBE chat with them online. And that's important to bring up because it's what separates personals sites from the new breed of social sites.
For years the old social services such as personals were a non-competing product. The fact is this sort of stuff has evolved into being the future of sex online, not traditional porn sites. I've been saying it for years. Once you give real people the power of production, their ability to share that with one another is something that will take a huge bite out of online porn sales.
The biggest online adult companies 10 years from now will be those who sell access to the technology that enables the cyber hookups and the exhibitionists to do their thing.
to be blunt... This is because you serve up an atmosphere of "teen boys/School Boys"Quote:
Originally Posted by maxpower
LOL Thats exactly what i was thinking too LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by IdolKnights
To be fair, i dont want to post any urls of the networking sites ive seen as they havent been launched by the owners yet and i dont think it would be ethical of me to put their URLs out there in the public eye before they had the chance to do so :)
Im led to beleive its only going to be a matter of days before the first one launches though :)
Regards,
Lee
I don’t know about all that, at the time it was only twink sites but if your going to let your twink-frat viewers interact you are going to have to watch out for CP and sooner or later you will find it. :wtf:Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolKnights
But you are right I would Never let the viewers of a Teen Boy site interact, that is a disaster waiting to happen. I am pretty sure others that make Teen boy or twink sites would agree with that at least I hope so.
But its not just the CP thing though can you imagine all the horrific things that where facilitated by gay.com, just the thought of it makes my stomach hurt.
I would tend to agree fully with you Matt, though I suspect it will happen much sooner than ten years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt 26z
I don’t know about all that, normally most gay guys are attracted to people that would have nothing to do with them in the “real” world, so the cam exchanges are not going to make many of them happy.Quote:
Originally Posted by wnc
Sorry Max... I was away for a few days and perhaps I misread the theme of this thread. But then again I think you and I agree, though on different wave lengths. I am writing as a visionary.Quote:
Originally Posted by maxpower
I think many like to view images and profiles of others, maybe not having the balls to communicate for whatever assorted reasons.
Sorry but I was thinking of further evolution of this concept, thus responding to MATT 26z.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lee
The next logical step would be to let all members in the social network to load personal videos.
Now imagine a future when there is a virtual webcam experience available. I am sure the technology will be expensive at first and would be sold by the likes of VSmedia on a per minute basis.
In the meantime, this new business model that Lee opened the tread with, social networking, I do believe has potental for a lot of income. The old horses like gay.com may be soon left behind.
The ability to do all of that already exists, there are social networking sites that give the users the ability to upload video files a la YouTube style and i dont recall where i saw it, but i know i definately saw something a few weeks back while i was researching webcams that would allow direct end-user interaction (camming, audio, saving cam sessions, etc) also and it operated on a 'recurring' basis.Quote:
Originally Posted by wnc
Also, on the technology aspect of it all, the next generation of laptops are already being shipped with webcams/microphones already built in to them at the factory so the potential for new advances in interactivity are certainly there right now.
The one thing about all of this social networking stuff that really amazes me is how 'adult' no longer seems to be at the forefront of new media/technology, instead we find ourselves cloning the ideas and concepts of mainstream websites more and more.
Regards,
Lee
No apology needed man, in fact I do not think you even know how much we are on the same page about people liking to view profiles and images.Quote:
Originally Posted by wnc
Ahh... okay... now I understand your thread. Perhaps the industry was dealing with USA laws. Hosting sexual videos, with no proof of adult would be a problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lee
This is an interesting thread, as I agree with some of the previous posters that innovation drives things, and as we all know, things dont stand still. There is a generation out there that uses IM, blogging and web social interaction so routinely today. I cant imagine it wont find some even more creative ways into what we do. Perhaps some form of extreme personaliztion (without being intrusive) and interaction. I try to think about this frontier every day :)
they are adding video feature for member profilesQuote:
Originally Posted by wnc
OUCH! Yeah, I'm sure I wouldn't be fired up to take chances again after that!Quote:
Originally Posted by maxpower
Ya it did make a impression on me that I am sure will stick with me for the rest of my life. Not sure its really taking a “chance” to let viewers do this kind of crap, but it does not make me sleep well at night to know I am making money off it. :shit:Quote:
Originally Posted by SPACE GLIDER
all depends on how u structure the interaction i believeQuote:
Originally Posted by maxpower
Ya that was my thinking too, as long as its Pier to Pier or what ever I could say its out of my control what they do. Yet I know what would be going on, and want NO part of it at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by collegedudes247
The good thing about porn is that it promotes the safest sex possible, one of the reasons I can feel good about what I do. Yet when you allow viewers to interact especially in porn sites you could kill someone, and that not what I want to be doing.
I am not trying to call out gay.com but could anyone really say if they where not around that some people would still be alive today.