Craigslist does serve as a platform where people help each other for the basics, and also, shows people that the Internet is good for mutual support. I do feel pretty good about that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.
Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.
I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.
Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
I have very little experience with dating websites. My feeling toward dating websites is what most people's is: If it works, great. If you're serious and legitimate about it and know what you're looking for, then from what I hear, it's definitely effective.
I'm not saying the whole world will work this way, but with Airbnb, people are sleeping in other people's homes and other people's beds. So there's a level of trust necessary to participate that's different from an eBay or Facebook.
I have loved hosting over the years, simply because I love working with people. It's the perfect job.
We use social media as an adjunct to my total media/market outreach.
I support any means to make real connections so long as that it does lead really quickly to real connections. It's the long-term online friendships and relationships that start to get a little hairy.
Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.