Playboy to Launch College Social Networking Site
Posted by Bezhou Feng on 23 August 2007 - 23:20 · 14 comments & 6895 views
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#2 Posted by theyarecomingforyou on 24 Aug 2007 - 00:19
- Sounds lame... and the restrictions seem a bit unnecessary. I hope it fails.
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#3 Posted by +Dakkaroth on 24 Aug 2007 - 01:32
- So what happens to current members who graduate? "Up nope! Sorry, you shouldn't have graduated. Screw off." ? Or did they somehow think people would go to college their whole life? Also, how does that interest anyone? Things like Myspace and Facebook allow you to connect with people, old/long distance friends, etc. How are you supposed to do any of that if it's college only?
That said, I go to the San Jacinto community college here in Houston. Though, I guess that would exclude me since I'm without an @blah.edu email?
Truly bogus if you ask me. Not that I want to be apart of it; I just don't think they're going to get anywhere with that kind of strict targeting.
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#4 Posted by +Dale on 24 Aug 2007 - 03:48
- my local university's email ends in ualberta.ca not edu.. cant see it working with those rules.
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#5 Posted by compusmart2k4 on 24 Aug 2007 - 05:40
- One other thing. What about those students that are in college, but don't have an email address that the school provides for them? I guess those people would be SOL then...
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#5.1 Posted by +Dakkaroth on 24 Aug 2007 - 17:03
- That's exactly what I said. It's all retarded really.
I think they're just trying to make it sound exclusive or something, as if THAT will make us want to join. Sounds to me they watched that South Park episode where Cartman gets his own theme park and thought it'd actually work.
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#6 Posted by gigapixels on 24 Aug 2007 - 10:07
- I'd rather go with SG...
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#8 Posted by _dandy_ on 24 Aug 2007 - 17:50
- The membership will consist of two groups of people:
a) guys
b) guys pretending to be girls
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#9 Posted by black_death on 25 Aug 2007 - 00:01
- www.myfaceisupherebook.com
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#10 Posted by Hum on 25 Aug 2007 - 01:18
- Posted August 22nd:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...&hl=Playboy
"It's a very lucrative market," said Michael Kelman, senior media analyst at Susquehanna Financial Group. "The college kids, they're going to be better-educated and have higher disposable incomes. (But) it's been a very, very tough audience to grab." Although Playboy U bars nudity, the site leaves little to the imagination with pictures from the mansion's "Midsummer Night's Dream" party and message topics such as "What Do You Think About Penis Enlargement" and "How Many People Have You Slept With? To Lie or Not to Lie." The site has instituted a college-only policy, which bars anyone without an e-mail address ending in .edu from joining; additionally Playboy U says it will boot any university faculty, staff or alumni or other non-students that it discovers on the site. "Your little brother can't get in. Your little sister can't get in. Nor can your mother and father," Stephen said.