Beautiful People, Not Smart Doesn’t Mean Smart

Om Malik, Friday, July 29, 2005 at 11:13 AM PT Comments (6)

YPulse points to yet another social networking site, gasp… for Beautiful People. Beautiful People got itself coverage in USA Today. Don’t bother visiting the site with any of these browsers - Safari, Camino and Firefox - i.e., the browsers of choice for the smart set. Message: BeautifulPeople.net is only supported by Internet Explorer. What’s that stereotype about beautiful and dumb?

> The criteria are shamelessly superficial: a recent photograph (bikinis and bare biceps encouraged) and body statistics. Is your six-pack more of a two-pack? The site also accepts “people with personal/professional qualities that stand out from the majority” — like “Sandhill,” an entrepreneur with a goofy grin who says his income is $1 million-plus. (USA Today)

And to counteract the utter dumbness, O’Reilly people have launched their own geek-oriented social network, Connection. Tony Perkins and Marc Canter are doing GoingOn, a meta-SN, while others have decided that $580 million is not too much for a music-hook-up oriented social network. Clearly, we are in middle of a social network mania.

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5 comments so far

July 29th, 2005
12:56 PM PT
Jesse Kopelman said:

What kind of world do we live in where you can make $1M+ and need to use the Internet to get laid? What would P Diddy think?

July 29th, 2005
1:47 PM PT
Om Malik said:

maybe million dollars doesn’t but all that what it used to

July 29th, 2005
3:07 PM PT
Jesse Kopelman said:

Yeah, I remember Who Wants to Marry a Millionare. Hey, wasn’t that guy “an entrepreneur with a goofy grin”?

January 9th, 2006
4:24 PM PT
brandi said:

so how smart are the people in the bahamas? and how are they smart?

April 21st, 2006
12:36 AM PT
cindy said:

Here is a very controversial site that’s seems to discriminates against some people quite well. I contacted the administrator and he said they had threats concerning the site.
Anyway, Thought you may find it interesting.

(link)

Thanks
Cindy

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