Site Offers 'Facebook For Filthy Rich'

[The Straight Story]

Site Offers 'Facebook For Filthy Rich'
Membership Requires Net Worth Of $3M Or Yearly Income Of $300K Per Year

PALM HARBOR, Fla. -- Bob Smith is hooked. He spends 10 hours a week online messaging his pals, shooting e-mails to new acquaintances and popping off about a variety of topics.

It makes him feel like a teenager -- not a successful 57-year-old business executive. "I'm having a ball," he said.

Smith's Web site of choice, Affluence.org, is free, but don't fire up that computer just yet.

It's a tad exclusive. Membership requires a verified net worth of at least $3 million or an annual household income of $300,000. If you don't qualify, there is one other way to join: convince at least five wealthy folks to vouch for you.

"It's Facebook for the filthy rich," said Palm Harbor's Scott Mitchell, the site's founder, president and chief executive officer.

Launched in September, Affluence.org reports more than 20,000 members (apparently, the economic downturn hasn't hit the yacht club scene just yet).

The site's members are chief executives, celebrities, investors, magazine publishers, philanthropists and socialites from around the world, Mitchell said. Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner is among those with a profile, and Mitchell -- who helped launch Rolling Stone's Web site -- swears, "It's him."

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[Hawkeye-X]

I predict that Affluence.org won't last past the anniversary of their launch date.

Who cares about fucking "Facebook for the filthy rich" - they should be taxed at a higher rate if they can afford to do this shit.



Hawkeye-X

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. At least they admit 300k is filthy rich.

[MattBaggins]

5. I give them a week till they are hacked

and someone steals the site from under them.

[L0oniX]

8. LOL ...I see a huge botnet connection in their future.

[Wickerman]

1. Sounds like a "dating" site

"...you don't qualify, there is one other way to join: convince at least five wealthy folks to vouch for you."


I'm guessing there are many beautiful youngsters out there without a discernable net worth that get those vouchers...

[Stevenmarc]

2. With the operative word "Tad"

a net worth of $3 million isn't an exclusive club and people who need to get in touch with other people who are important have people to do that for them.

[goforit]

3. I can't believe the wealthy would be that stupid to expose themselves.

[cobalt1999]

6. Matches what I learned bartending at a yacht club one summer

The folks that REALLY had money were mostly "down to earth", polite, and tipped well.

The folks that just barely were considered rich or the newly rich were typically demanding, egotistical, assholes that wanted to show off how much they had to an audience (but usually stiffed you when no one was looking).

This site looks like it caters right to group #2.

[Maraya1969]

7. My mother owned a travel agency and she said that the people

who had traveled the least were the ones who complained about everything. The ones who traveled the most, (had the most money) didn't complain because they new what travel was and they didn't need to prove anything to anybody.

[L0oniX]

9. Maybe they should link up with sugardaddies.com too.