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09th Oct 2014

This ‘Facebook for rich people’ costs $9,000 to join and $3,000 a year after that

It had better make a damn fine latté at those prices.

Tony Cuddihy

It had better make a damn fine latté at those prices.

Rich people are great, aren’t they? Swanning around town in their fur coats, munching on the babies of the lower classes, just being generally haughty.

We’d love to be one of them one day, but we’re not paying $9,000 to join The Netropolitan Club.

Billed as a social network for people who have more money than time, The Netropolitan Club is exclusively used by country club types and founder James Touchi-Peters says there is a market for it.

“Technically the site isn’t different than a standard social network site,” said Touchi-Peters. “The difference is you get privacy and access to a global network of people who share a similar lifestyle with you.”

There are a number of conditions to joining The Netropolitan Club.

Users have to post their real names, addresses, and any background information they give needs to be verifiable.

All members are automatically connected after joining although – as with Facebook – there are blocking and muting options.

JOE would join up but, frankly, we’d frown upon any such club that would have us as members.

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