Lee Lorenzen Says Google Should Pay College Students $100 Each to Switch to a .edu Email Address-Only System
Lee Lorenzen of Altura Ventures is on a panel right now at Graphing Social Patterns. He just said that if Google wants to dislodge Facebook, they should launch a similar network with a .edu-only admission system for disgruntled college students and then pay them $100 each to switch.
What do you guys think about that? Would Google be best suited by spending that kind of money, or should they focus on trying to get a foothold within Zuckerberg’s kingdom?
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I don’t know about other colleges, but the University of South Carolina’s .edu accounts are absolutely horrendous. The ONLY time I used it was to sign up for my Facebook account way back when and even then it took me about three hours to actually log in and navigate to the confirmation link without getting a timeout error or something. And the “support” from IT is about as helpful as a monkey. Probably a little less os. So making it an .edu-only system might get the current college crowd at some schools, but it’d certainly leave out a few too many people for my liking.
On the other hand, I’m all for people giving me $100 when I don’t really do anything. So I say bring it on
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