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I agree.

If you are extroverted, you DO NOT need a curated or arbitrary system to social network - you are simply going to do it anyway.

If you are introverted, you WILL NEVER take advantage of even a curated system to "create" a social network - it's simply not in you to do that.

So that leaves a tiny domain of people for whom it might help. But the reality is that it's the peak of the Bell curve but it's also the peak of mediocrity which is antithetical to startups or creativity. Yet unexpected and creative connections are supposed to be the point.

Cheaper to buy a golf club membership quite honestly.




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