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It's a true story worthy of The Onion's own pages and spoofing. The hip, funny and creative personals owned by Spring Street Networks hosted at hotspots like The Onion, Salon.com and Nerve.com has been swallowed whole by the huge and utterly ghastly Friendfinder Network. The 750,000 or so members that enjoyed the site have now been, essentially, acquired and thrown into the big 30 million-person vat of singles soup like seasoning.
Their profiles, pictures, witty comments and ability to find other like-minded singles have all been compromised. Worse, their creative and beautiful pictures (see below) will now be lost in a sea of the world's worst personal photos.
10 comments:
Man. And I had finally just joined the other night.
Yeah..its sucks...more tomorrow...
tragic. now it's just like real life. swimming in a sea of anonymity.
i LOOOOVE the onion. i used to work there!
The 750,000 or so members that enjoyed the site have now been, essentially, acquired and thrown into the big 30 million-person vat of singles soup like seasoning.
Actually, they said that they won't combine the old Spring Street profiles with the profiles on other FriendFinder sites--see Andrew Conru's comment here.
The 750,000 or so members that enjoyed the site have now been, essentially, acquired and thrown into the big 30 million-person vat of singles soup like seasoning.
Actually, they said that they won't combine the old Spring Street profiles with the profiles on other FriendFinder sites--see Andrew Conru's comment here.
Yeah Jesse...but they did..look at the numbers...check the other sites..
I don't think so, I'm in the smallest state (Rhode Island) so I remember most of the recent profiles from my area and I haven't seen a sudden influx of new ones on nerve.com. Also, what other sites? Are you saying I'll be able to find my profile on one of the other friendfinder sites? If so, which one?
I joined...but everyone lived in the States...so....but still some wickedly cool individuals...that's unfortunate.
An's post is perhaps the most succinct post all year. Well said.
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