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Literally stumbling upon new online friends
To most people, the activity of making new friends is a largely "offline" one. Up to now, the overwhelming majority of relationship web services try their best to match compatible people together.
It’s a process, which you probably know pretty well, where every effort is made to relegate effective selection and screening power to the user.
It was only a matter of time before web developers, somewhere, would think up a system where the selection of a new friend doesn’t happen based on the usual criterias, like revenue, social status, looks, age, gender and nationality.
The new online service dubbed Fo.rtuito.us works for you, as long as you’re ready to put some effort back into it. Technically, as soon as you’re signed up, the services proposes a new randomly selected friendship which you’re invited to pursue by sending an e-mail — this may prove a little awkward, though.
Once the other person gets your message, they can evaluate if they want to be friends with you, largely based on what you’ve sent them. Assuming the recipient of your message accepts your invitation to be a friend, you can continue the relationship from there.
Because you’ve succeeded in meeting with a new friend, Fo.rtuito.us will reward you with the introduction of a new friend, up to four days after the previous relationship started.
Contrary to other social networking services, you can’t invite other people and they can’t recommend you to anyone else. Fo.rtuito.us is basically generating endless communications channel silos between perfect strangers which, for some people, is exactly what the doctor ordered.
Fo.rtuito.us’ slogan could be something along the line of "Expect the Unexpected"!
If you want to be part of this service’s beta testing, just go ahead and signup. The process takes less than 30 seconds and you can delete your account at any time if you’re unable to meet new friends (or for any other reason).
Posting a picture is part of the choices when signing-up so you can look your best for all those perfect strangers who are blessed enough to e-stumble upon you!
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