The baby boomers online portal
I found out about Eons from a CNET News.com article and then a Mashable post. Eons states to be the place where people 50+ go to get things done. After arriving to the site, the first thing I was asked to do was input my age, sex, and zip code. Since I wanted to check it out, I put my parents birth year–1951–and was able to proceed onto the site. I don’t know whether they allow you to view the site if you are under 50.
While CNET News.com and Mashable both call Eons a social networking site, I would contend that they are more of a media portal for the boomer crowd. (Update: In his post, Pete Cashmore does eventually say Eons is a portal, and compares it to MySpace which he asserts is also now a portal. I politely disagree with that as I would never go to MySpace to find quality content). Eons definitely does have some social networking features, but the focus seems to be the broad range of content within several different channels: Fun, Love, Money, Body, Goals, Obits (short for obituaries), and LifeMap. There is also a cRANKy search engine which is supposed to give more relevant searches for people above 50.
Other “cool” (AKA keen or groovy) features include a longevity calculator, which will estimate how long you’ll live based on what types of activities you indulged in during your life, and the ability to change the size of the font to make for easier reading. After making your goals you will be able to see other users who have similar goals and whether or not they are located near you. Maybe it would be cool to add a baby boomer Meetro to the site.
A short, funny post about Eons can be read here.
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August 1st, 2006 at 5:21 pm
so instead of birthday reminders you get death notices. grim.
August 8th, 2006 at 7:08 am
[…] While writing my post on Eons I noted they had a channel for the user to write out their goals. Wouldn’t it be a great idea, I thought, to dedicate an entire site to helping someone achieve their goals! There is 43Things, that allows users to create and share what they’d like to do, but doesn’t necessarily help them do it. My site would give users strategies to accomplish their aspirations, and allow people to help others achieve their goals. Maybe once you help someone achieve their goal, you earn some good karma. […]