> ..your startup isn't so much about helping people make friends; it's about giving businesses another advertising opportunity.. > I feel that ethos of busines

> ..your startup isn't so much about helping people make friends; it's about giving businesses another advertising opportunity.. > I feel that ethos of business is a big part of this problem, and it won't be part of the solution. You're so right to point this out. Your original comment satirizes the narrow mindset of reducing a social and cultural problem to building/selling technological solutions. Often the latter is not a solution at all, but merely another symptom of an underlying illness, the mentality that exploits society and human relationship as a business opportunity. On the theme of friendship and loneliness, Facebook is a prime example.