Agester Warning - Content Not Consumable

I have had the great pleasure to visit some of the most innovative web sites, test the most sought after Beta releases and talk with a few of the most influential personalities of Web 2.0. I feel fortunate sincerely.

Then there is always the other side of the coin, or the one we often do not burden our readers with. That would be the sites and personalities not worth wasting the micro-voltage output of a CPU to visit.

I found one (or was suggested one) and thought it appropriate to WARN our readers about. Seriously folks DO NOT VISIT THIS SITE! Agester.com has taken the definition of community to an all time low. If Agester were a town it would be in the old west inhabited by prairie dogs.

I am looking for redeeming factors hard here folks. Well, the site does have a mindlessly cute way of wasting some time guessing the ages of people in pictures from their profiles. A second window lets the visitor (I cannot think of user as a term here) to see if their guess was correct. There is also the option to meet the person in frame, which evidently sends them an invitation? The best things about Agester are the nice photos of smiling people.

The worst things are too long to list, but lack of content and differentiation from 1000 other cheesy sites might be the top two. A guy at TechCrunch was trying to be nice on the forums by saying he did not like the UI. The UI is not the problem, as a site this simplistic and worthless does not even need an interface, but belongs as a plug-in voter on a better web page. I hope someone meets the beautiful girl in my screenshot below and they live happily ever after. Outside of that it will take hundreds of hours of user (eeek!) feedback and site development to get this to smell like a rose.  

Agester officially gets the "stinker" award for March from me. If you cannot resist, and just have to go there please tell the developers to work on this! Maybe they will turn the site into something Web 2.0, but it will take some serious revamping. A mind is a terrible thing to waste, and so are a web site and a pretty face.