Stanford CIS

The new social networking?

By Stanford Center for Internet and Society on

OK, so we all know Friendster, Orkut, Tribes, Sixdegrees, etc., etc. Enter Couch Surfing. For those not in the know (I had to look it up), couch surfing is where you crash on someone's couch for a short time, usually en route to somewhere else -- and Couch Surfing provides the social networking software to connect couch-less travelers with spare couches. For college kids (or law students) on a budget, this is a potentially great app. For pundits, it may help answer the "and then what?" question plaguing most social networking tools. (Via MeFi)

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