Netropolitan Club was a social network created by composer and performer James Touchi-Peters, which launched September 15, 2014, and shutdown in November of 2014. It was designed for use exclusively by wealthy people. [1] The website has a sign-up fee of U$9.000,00 and an annual fee of U$3.000,00 for renewing one's membership. [2]
After only approximately two months the site was deemed a failure. [3]
Touchi-Peters founded Netropolitan Club so that wealthy people could have a place to network with other wealthy people, and share their activities as well as discuss their first world problems without alienating poorer people or engendering a backlash. [2] With this goal in mind, the Netropolitan Club had the following distinguishing features: [4]
Netropolitan Club has been covered in International Business Times, [1] the Los Angeles Times, [2] the Express Tribune, [5] NPR, [6] Inc., [7] and the Huffington Post. [8] A CNN commented that it sounded like "an elaborate ruse in an age when Facebook, Twitter and a host of other social networks are free". [9]
Netropolitan Club was a social network created by composer and performer James Touchi-Peters, which launched September 15, 2014, and shutdown in November of 2014. It was designed for use exclusively by wealthy people. [1] The website has a sign-up fee of U$9.000,00 and an annual fee of U$3.000,00 for renewing one's membership. [2]
After only approximately two months the site was deemed a failure. [3]
Touchi-Peters founded Netropolitan Club so that wealthy people could have a place to network with other wealthy people, and share their activities as well as discuss their first world problems without alienating poorer people or engendering a backlash. [2] With this goal in mind, the Netropolitan Club had the following distinguishing features: [4]
Netropolitan Club has been covered in International Business Times, [1] the Los Angeles Times, [2] the Express Tribune, [5] NPR, [6] Inc., [7] and the Huffington Post. [8] A CNN commented that it sounded like "an elaborate ruse in an age when Facebook, Twitter and a host of other social networks are free". [9]