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Networking takes flight for business class

Published: February 7, 2008
Source: The Scotsman
Location: Scotland

FEELING like a fogey on Facebook? Or a bozo on Bebo? Now business travellers who feel their pin-striped suits and briefcases are leaving them far from down with the kids have formed their own social networking site.

Skylounge.com gives on-the-go executives a chance to make friends in their own community – inhabitants of the airport lounge. Members can see where their contacts are at any time and expand their business network at the click of a mouse button. And for those networkers sick of accidentally stumbling across their teenage children online, there is an added bonus – members' average age is 35.

There are also no profiles, "walls" or message boards where the excesses of last night's business trip party can be broadcast to the world – managers, of which Skylounge's membership is predominantly formed, just don't do that sort of thing.

One networker, property consultant Markus Lyshaug, says: "I joined several social networks but soon found that I was at least ten years older then most members."

Gazetteer is just foaming at the mouth at the prospect of all the dynamic new people it could meet.

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