HQP Network
Category: People
Published: 10/04/2009 04:22 p.m.
I am very excited when it comes to meeting and getting to know high quality people. I have only met a few, but I know there is some way to use the web to meet more. The current gamut of social networks are not exactly serving my needs in this area.
Twitter is helping a bit, but surely spam will come into play eventually. Facebook is the opposite of helping at least in the ways that I use it, and I am completely off of myspace. I am not sure what other web technologies can help me to meet a small group of quality people, but I think something will pop up. Almost like a match.com but without the desperation and need for "relations".
I think the real problem is that it is difficult to have meaningful quality relationships just using the internet. This new social network should facilitate the relationships to moving to the real world. Online, people communicate in messages. Emails, FB messages and even texts are just one-way. Tweets are closer to real time, but there aren't really a conversation because people are still talking much more often than listening. None of these hold a candle to a 3-hour conversation with another human being.
So, I would like to propose the HQP, or High Quality People Network. My basic ideas are as follow:
- Signups are limited
- Groups are self-organizing and are capped at a certain size
- Invites are limited to 1 per person
- You can very much get "voted off the island" at any time for anything
- True democracy rules each group
- Groups MUST meet in real life
- Attendance is not mandatory (though you may be kicked out)
You can join at any time (provided you are invited) and you can leave at any time. Joining costs money, because in joining you will be provided with valuable connections that would be costly to get anywhere else.