The founder of the company for which I work is quite young: this spring he celebrated his tenth reunion from high school. He makes our vp of engineering, ten years out of college, look like a seasoned veteran. Anyways, the founder, ES, has a couple of friends who started a new web site, called Hey Let's Go. It's supposed to be one of those places where you can hook up with friends and friends-of-friends, figure out something to do (there's a calendar of events and they seem to sponsor, or at least schedule, parties) and then everyone can go do it. It looks great if you're urban, single, bored, and like to go out with others but you don't know where to go or whom to go with. As a sign of the target audience, there are discussion boards, including a bunch for recent college graduates.
ES sent mail to the company (or maybe just to the local office), encouraging us all to sign up and give feedback to the people who started the site. Being a good doobie, I checked it out. I started laughing when I got to the profile part. You're supposed to fill in your birth date (which I didn't do). To help, they've provided a default date, in 1982. Yup -- that's after I was supposed to graduate from college, after I'd been in the work force for several years. In fact, I probably could have gone to college, done a quick master's degree, gotten married, waited a bit, and had children older than the default birth date for this site. What a hoot.
Somehow, I think I'm not part of the target demographic for the adventure. I sent some polite feedback to someone who contacted me, seemingly within seconds of my signing up, and wished him luck.
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