Imagine my delight, when I first learned of eons.com! A 'Neighborhood' for the over 50 crowd, hyped as our generation's answer to MySpace.com.

Imagine my disappointment, to find eons is but one more of the sites springing-up all over the internet, targeting the maturing majority. Plenty of ads, little games, some Trivia, and cookie-cutter articles...did I mention the ads?

I registered, I logged-in, and my 'Home' is nothing more than the standard form-fill-in profile, that I've seen used by every other site. Absolutely no freedom of imagination, or originality, to be found at our 'Homes'.

I move on, and find the usual Group Topics, some quite restrictive in that they demand nothing be posted off-topic. Let's face it, this can get boring, quickly, and from the looks of some of the Topics, boredom has led to no-show members, equaling no-posts.

Networking? Many people here would like a venue, such as a real Home page, for mentioning their services/merchandise, interesting hobbies, etcetera, in which their over 50 peers might have interest. Many here would love to be able to not only discuss music, videos, etcetera, but also have the site-ability to share these with the community. Not to mention, how much more interesting posts would be, if HTML and images could be used, within them. The internet is still a visual media, after all.

What we're left with, is more or less, a listing of Blogs, and same-old-same-old Group Topics, we've seen, and read, a million times. Maybe a million and then some...considering we've been around awhile.

Well, time for me to head on over to MySpace.com...a friend tells me there are some great videos up today.

--Jeannine Schenewerk
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