Whoa that's awesome. (That your mom is on Hubski that is)
Well, it's also awesome that she didn't abort me.
Maybe she is on Hubski and hasn't told you. You know what would make me super happy? To find out that my father or a good friend had been on Hubski for a long while and just never told me. I have friends that lurk Hubski and this makes me very happy. I'm able to share conversations with them about stuff I've read/learned here that I can't (in the same way) with others. My best friends are on Hubski.
I've invited my best friends to be on Hubski though. So, I have the best of both worlds. I have friends from college on Hubski, former co-workers, musicians I've played with etc. that I've invited here and that now visit regularly. I wish that more Hubski users would invite their friends from "meatspace" to the site. I think it would benefit from this type of growth as opposed to huge influxes from disenfranchised users of other social aggregators. Invite your friends dammit! I too have dreams of Hubski folk btw. Also, and totally unrelated, I learned the word "paramour" today. Thanks.
Do you have a template of an invitation with a description and some instructions and words on why it's wonderful? If one doesn't exist, maybe we or someone should write one. I find that people that I've shown it to do not really get it or see themselves as already too busy wasting their time on other websites.
Lil, I don't think such a thing exists, but it is a really good idea. We are in the midst of creating a "welcome video." Perhaps, having this ready when the video is would be a good idea. You want to take a crack at writing it?
You can't get out of it that easily, tng. You have invited friends and I bet you did it via email with a little intro and description, so you'll have to send that along to me (cleaned up of course). Anyway, I'm beyond swamped right now -- but maybe in a couple of weeks. This would actually be a fun thing to do collaboratively with humanodon or anyone. Sort of like those political campaign templates I get all the time to send to a politician. Even if there was an Invite-A-Friend-To-Hubski template, I can't see myself actually using it. I have wonderful friends who have visited here such as Sergio and ellens-s-jaffe briefly, or JA_Kennedy just to comment on the poetry, but that was it. On the other hand, if they knew how we get to know one another in such profound ways . . .
Yeah, I don't think I have emailed many people about it, but mostly they ask me about it because they know I am one of the co-founders. They'll see me post stuff to FB etc. I also tend to invite people to the site in person and not via emails. Also, if you don't think you'd ever use it, then perhaps it's not worth creating. It's really hard to convey what makes the place special because it really is about the community. How do you convey this? Someone really needs to experience it.