And buy a dog! For a 26 years old and the co-founder of an Internet Start-up it could seem suspicious – maybe even illegal – to leave a popular and rapidly (sick) growing online-community. Giving away reasons for that, and the philosophy of reasons for mankind to do the same thing, is not a blog-post. It’s a 5 feet thick pile of books written by politicians, shrinks, dog-breeders and co-founders of Internet Start-ups. Those books are still not written and I am aware that people might remember me more for breaking this social trend, than for Needish. Both are huge ideas but anti mainstream conspiracies tend to stick with people for long, longer than stories of successfully built companies. Think of Socrates and CEOs back in ancient Greece. Remember Socrates? The CEOs? Any other Greek at all? Exactly my point. To further jeopardize my reputation amongst employees, friends, investors and others (read = Anita) I will let you know, honestly, that I have no clue of exactly what Socrates proposed, but I imagine his ideas were somewhat as grand as mine. People have no time to walk their dogs when new photos must be checked every hour. When constantly “checking out” new friends of friends of friends of a dude you met when you were drunk in Ibiza 1997 and those friends adding other friends to their dudes… that they met in Switzerland for New-Years eve (ano pre-google). It is getting complicated isn’t it? And that’s exactly why dogs are barking in the streets outside my window, second to zero degrees in Santiago being the major reason for why I am in a bad mood today. They are all abandoned by ex-dog-lovers who spend their time desperately trying to administrate passwords for all communities they’ve signed up to since February this year. People don’t know how to be a community-member, nor what’s the point, “but everyone else is doing it so I have to do it too”! I bet people will look back at us one day and say: - My god that was a stupid generation!
- Yeah, but not like the one who thought the world was flat.
- I don’t know man. At least they talked to each other. These mammals sat inside box-looking buildings and tagged photos of each other instead of hanging out.
- Tagged?
- Yeah, I don’t know what it is. They didn’t know either, someone discovered a while ago.
I left an online community this morning and I have already (11.28 am) saved approx. 7 minutes of my life, thanks to a down-sized inbox, less browsers open and zero temptation of checking out a low-quality-photo of my friends Per’s new friends sofa. If everyone working here did the same thing we would save approx 4 hours a day, only on that online community. Readers might think I am joking but I am not. This is a message to all Needish and everyone else. Success is built on hard work, not hard wojk. You are right, there is no such word as wojk, but when wojk.com is created as an online community for sharing ideas for Asian-food, you can count me out. To all friends trying to desperately find me online I want to make clear that I am not hiding for anyone, just getting a head-start in life. You can always find me at oskar at this domain dot com! People ask me what Needish is all about and I think its time to tell. Back in January my buddy and also co-founder Johan realized that he was not man enough to live up to the expectations from several online-communities. Needish allows you to subscribe to a service that will do all the work for you. It will upload photos of you from fake trips to various countries (just upload 10 photos of your face and we will take care of the rest). It will update your resume every month with words like; “Product Manager, Strategies, Wine, Jewelry, Single again etc. It will chat the occasional chat with your online-friends, who if you are an early adaptor are likely to wonder why the hell you forgot all those things you did together (pre-online-community) but as we reach critical mass more and more will use the service and our robots couldn’t care less. In the long-term I see people back in the streets, making love and making friends. Friends who have a smell. Online communities will live on without us as our robots gladly look at all the advertising published inside them. Back to work. Oskar
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