Friday, February 10, 2006
Teens getting Tagged(.com)
Watch out, MySpace (I'm sure they are watching)! Tagged.com, a social-networking site specifically targeting people 13-19 got its second million members in just three months. Is this a sign that early-adopter teens are moving on from the more general social-networking sites to more "vertical" ones (by "vertical," I mean narrower in terms of age, interests, or location)? I'm thinking of sites like Dallas's Buzz-Oven, St. Louis's STLPUNK.com, and the poised-for-launch YFly.com (see People.com). Here's a press release about the $7 million the company just received in venture-capital funding, showing how seriously the business community is taking young Net users, and here are Tagged.com's own site stats . Another, newer up 'n' comer: TagWorld.com, launched in November and now with "viral video," it says. The site, which already boasts "nearly half a million registered users" is all about user-produced media (photos, music, video, etc.), was recently mentioned in a PC World blog.
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What I cannot understand is that Tagged markets itself as a premier teen social networking site stating that “Tagged.com is the premier social networking destination for the Millennial Generation and an ideal place for advertisers who are trying to reach the teen market. Tagged provides a fun, safe, and exciting environment for teens to showcase their personalities and talents, and to connect with friends and meet new ones. Tagged maintains this great environment by only allowing teenagers to register on the site.”
ReplyDeleteIf that is the case then why am I receiving an invite from a 51 year old Harsh from India?
I was able to search the database and their are more than teens on this site.
Rose, Tagged informed us about six months ago that they are allowing adults to register to the site, but that they've established a "firewall" between teen users and adult users. Adults can't comment in teen pages or see their full pages and vice versa, reportedly. Thanks for posting,
ReplyDeleteAnne
My main problem lies with the fact that as a site it should pride itself against all forms of spam. So why did does it consistently send out emails to your Contacts inviting them to join when obviously the people do not want such messages cosnidering the amount of social networks out there . It is pure spam unfortunately and the only reason I consider the fact that they get away with it is because it's more underground then sites like Myspace, Facebook etc
ReplyDeleteThe chatrooms in there are a disgrace and have to be fixed asap. The amount of online predators and Flaming in there is a disgrace