Imagine, I marveled (and/or yelled) to Jeremy: a place to communicate meaningfully with people who actually matter to you.
A place to share the kind of personal, quirky, under-the-surface things that you just don't find on Facebook. A place to be real, both with yourself and with the people who actually matter to you.
I had fallen in love with the idea of Myne.
Of course, both love and ideas are complicated, and the journey from theory to practice is hard.
About 3 months ago, I realized we were actually making it happen. We had just given our alpha users the ability to share questions-and-answers, and I formed a 'Circle' with five of my oldest, closest friends. With love (still) on the brain, I asked everyone in the group to answer the following question (we now call this a "Poll" game):
How many times have I fallen in love?
Even asking the question kind of blew my mind, not only because it forced me to think - perhaps for the first time - about my own answer, but also because I realized I no idea what everyone else's answers would be. And when those answers came in, a lot of really good things happened. Most immediately, we learned about the whos and whens underlying our five numbers. But more importantly, we also had a number of conversations (both online and off) about life, happiness, family, marriage, religion, and growing up. Indeed, we even spoke about cars: one friend's only love was his old Volvo.
With one question and a few mouse clicks, I discovered some deeply significant things about people I've known for over 20 years. That's amazing.
That's Myne.
-Mark
