Social networking?

Question

I decided the other day that I was tired of MySpace and all the other just general 'keep in touch with my friends' social networking type sites out there... Being a freelance (part time) web builder I thought it might be a fun project to set up one of my own, so I did... I just launched it today - and I'm the only member so far :(

it can be found here: http://www.shouldertap.net

I'm curious if anyone has any ideas about how to get people to go there? I've always been pretty good at site planning and the visual part, but I totally suck at marketing.

Oh, fyi, I'm not trying to make money from it or anything, no advertisements or anything, would just would like to see a few people get a kick out of this thing..

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Well, posting it here is a start... You may want to get your friends on it first get each of them to promise you five more people and so on...

Answer 2

What is different about your site?

Are there different features, different guidelines?

If you read the book "The tipping point" about how a trend takes off, there are a group of people that makes it happen.  Maybe market it to a certain "hip" group of people that define your image.  Perhaps there is a small college that you could plaster with info about it, see if it takes off on the college.

My 0.02, though, would be to market it as the "networking site for grownups" so you don't have that idiotic teens doing S****y poses and such. (Can you tell I'm a grownup?  I have too much dignity to haunt MySpace)