Comments on: Get Into Lunch.com’s Private Beta

By: Samantha

Samantha — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:33:49 +0000

Actually, smithee, good news is on the way for you! Lunch will have Facebook-connect and a way to connect to Twitter so that you can directly share your reviews from Lunch on both. I have a friend who works there and I had the same complaints that you did. I told her I already have way too many on my toolbar then, she answered with the upcoming “connects” and the LunchThis to repost reviews from Amazon and YouTube, so I checked it out. Glad I did…I completely feel ya, though and you raise good points!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:13:19 +0000

I actually see much more value in a site like this than most that are out there, provided it catches on. I had a lot of fun reading some incredibly well written reviews on some subjects I’m interested in and others that I wouldn’t have come across in a million years. One guy named Woopak_the_thrill must be a foremost expert on obscure movies.

By: smithee

smithee — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:49:32 +0000

Samantha said: “I guess you don’t have any blogs or Facebook pages or Myspace or like to share any useful information with friends?”

I use WordPress, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Picasaweb and many others.

It’s inconvenient to use separate identities for each, but more to the point, I’m not happy that my social graph and my creative output like links, comments, reviews, photos, votes, etc. are mostly locked in to each platform and the data is not readily usable by me.

I appreciate that these free sites are available but in the long run they don’t help us build up the value of our data, our network and our creativity. They are a bad investment of our time and effort, even small amounts.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:38:12 +0000

I’ve actually joined Lunch.com and it is SUPER EASY, so I don’t get where you guys are getting the incompatibility/complication factor. I have had many an intelligent conversation on here with people I never would’ve met (which is completely different from websites that are open to 12-year-olds), been able to read some accurate and well-thought out reviews of things that I would love but, never heard of and be able to share my likes and reviews with others that have found them useful. So, I find it VERY valuable to me- I get much more out of it than my other social medias.

I guess you don’t have any blogs or Facebook pages or Myspace or like to share any useful information with friends, smithee?

By: smithee

smithee — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:54:06 +0000

Wow, a new web service is offering me the exclusive opportunity to put my time into creating their business! Where do I sign up for?

Yet another incompatible social network trying to take advantage of gullible users.

Where is the value for me?

By: Andrew Mager

Andrew Mager — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:29:21 +0000

I don’t like it at all. Too complicated for the average user.