I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.

Groucho. Always pithy. There's something fascinating about aSmallWorld, an online club that desocializes (or at least limits -- like Hutterites or Amish) the broad social network opportunity proposed by the WWW. From its landing page:

aSmallWorld is an invitation-only online community which is not open to the public. It is designed for those who already have strong connections with one another.Which is not to say that I don't understand and can't appreciate the objective: to rid the online social networking environment of leeches and inject some social trust into the network. Still, feels a little unusual -- a little . . . "restricted?"

Posted by Grayson at July 28, 2005 07:35 AM