Given the rapid growth of both, and the deep roots each has developed in a short time, you might think it’s crazy to try to compete in the same space. You would be right except we have a unique value proposition.
An aspect of human connection that is absent from all things web-related is the tactile. Everything is virtual; there is no physical aspect to human interaction online. This is where Crotch steps in.
How it works
In the same way as people currently post, tweet, poke etc., with Crotch you also “post.” However, in order to do so, the initiator must grab his or her crotch as they send. Granted, it’s not a physical connection between people, it’s self-contained, so to speak. But it’s a first in that it requires something physical. Eventually we hope the technology will evolve to a point where there actually is something tactile between two or more people online. But it’s a start.
We’ve managed to incorporate this physical aspect to social networking by incorporating software that “sees” the user and can detect whether he or she makes contact between the legs. It simply isn’t possible to send and not make a tactile connection with the nether regions. The software reads (“sees”) what you do.
Known issues
We’re so far advanced in the development of Crotch that our biggest obstacle right now is linguistic. We’ve settled on Crotch as a name for the social network, but what do we call the “send” aspect? Do you “crotch” another user? Does a user get “crotched?” It strikes me that the name gets ugly when you start turning it into a verb with a variety of tenses.
We’ve considered one possibility: pubed. “I’m pubing him,” or “She just pubed me.” The problem here, of course, is laser hair removal. The term may confuse some users.
Many of the other possibilities we’ve tossed around were eliminated not so much on their sound merits (many rolled off the tongue) but by the constraints of gender. I recall one in particular that worked really well but, unfortunately, was too much like “tweet” (a mere vowel away) and was too gender specific a term.
Still, these language issues are minor and should be overcome in short order.
Coming soon
Crotch will also have a mobile aspect so people will be able to use it on their iPhone, or just about any cell for that matter. Our expectation is that it will be launched within six months and, one year from now, given the quick growth of successful social networks, we envision a world where people everywhere – in their cars, on the streets, in office cubicles – will be clutching their groins because they’ll all be using their Crotch!
(Btw, a user’s account will be known as MyCrotch.)
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