Honestly, this is too much. Professional atheist Richard Dawkins has started a social network for atheists on his own website, at richarddawkins.net/social.
Okay, I get it that someone wants to start a social network for atheists. Not a bad idea. Why not? But putting it on your own, named domain as a subdirectory? Doesn’t exactly smack of confidence. (Exception here.)
Shouldn’t it be at something like atheists.com?
Dawkins is going to have to buy me another couple of drinks before I give him my number. When I checked it out, there were 4241 total members, and over two of them were online. (Click the photo for the screenshot.) The night is still young, but it looks like I’m not the only one who feels that way.
A quick search didn’t turn up Dawkins as a member of his own network.
I swear to god, it’s not all about him. It just looks that way.
Welcome to the social. The demo is free.
Forget Dawkins and join our local “Ateus de Catalunya” (Atheists from Catalonia). I happen to know their leaders because they sometimes participate in interfaith gatherings! This is their address:
http://www.ateus.org/
Eh. I tried to hang out with some atheists here in Chicago through an online meetup group. Let’s just say…negation is not enough to unify people into a socially interesting group…
(But I am STILL ambivalent about UUism. Agh. I think I am just ambivalent in general.)
8,000+ as of today, 11 months later. so it’s not exactly taking the world by storm.
any moment now i will warm up to good old richard and take him seriously enough to read through a whole book of his.
wait, i gotta do the dishes first.