Ah, online social networking. Right now there
are 17, 827 people online over at the Bolt.com 'hang out'. Where categories range from Movies & TV to Sex &
Dating, Gaming, Music, Style, Sports, American Idol, AIM Icons, Quotes, Ringtones, Game Revolution, Quizzes,
Horoscopes, and TAG.
According to their about: "... Bolt is the #1 youth hangout on the Web, bringing together 4.5 million young
people each month to exchange ideas about everything from final exams to the war in Iraq. Bolt is the basement, park,
college dorm, sidewalk café or the 7-11 parking lot – it's a place where young people come to meet others and talk
about everything. Authenticity is at the core of all that we do…"
Bolt is located in Soho, NYC and is led by Aaron Cohen, CEO. They recently released a study on
'Youth Happiness' (pdf file link) with the subtext
that it "Turns out High School and College Kids Are Actually Pretty Happy" with 67% of 15-22 year olds counting
themselves as happy to very happy. Who knew?
1. Bolt has now added RSS feeds to their tagbooks, which are surveys/quizzes that members can create for each other and the RSS feeds allow members to track the results.
Posted at 8:04PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Ricardo Cortes