Overhype

Overhype

by Mike Masnick




Is Keen.com Revolutionizing the Phone Industry or Just Phone Sex?

from the phone-sex-online dept

A few people I know have gone to work for Keen.com. Every time someone decides to take a job there, we get into the "wow, so you're going to work for a phone sex company" discussion (which they don't always appreciate). Keen.com positions themselves as "revolutionizing the telephone", but it seems more and more like they are just revolutionizing the 1-900 phone number business. For this they've raised nearly $70 million? It seems a bit too much. The fact is that I really have no desire to randomly call some stranger for a fee. Maybe I'm missing something about the service (other than that they have perhaps the most annoying television commercials I've ever seen - that literally make me change the channel to get away from them). I would be interested to see why fans of Keen like it so much. Feel free to tell me what I'm missing.

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    Mar 9th, 2009 @ 8:03am
  • I am a psychic phonesex operator *powered by keen.

    I am offering 3 free minutes and you can talk to me and find out if you would like to talk dirty to me. I charge about 1.00 dollar per minute. My dirty talk is for the soul and phone sex sexual healing. *Keen is a reputable and professional internet phone services website.

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  • Mar 9th, 2009 @ 8:12am
  • Mar 30th, 2009 @ 12:06pm
  • Future of Phone Sex

    Working in the phone sex industry, I think there's plenty of opportunity for reviving audio chat. Definitely not to the level it was in the 80's, but with new technology coming out I think there's some exciting possibilities to provide these old fashioned services to a younger audience. We're delivering to all mobile devices a click-to-call service that connects you to phone sex girls, and we've had some solid success with this. Do you know the parent company for Keen? Is AT&T and YellowPages really selling adult chat services? Very interesting! Go check out our iPhone Phone Sex Lines to see what we're up to.

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