Netropolitan Club was a social network created by composer and performer James Touchi-Peters, which launched September 15, 2014, and shutdown in November of 2014. It was designed for use exclusively by wealthy people.[1] The website has a sign-up fee of U$9.000,00 and an annual fee of U$3.000,00 for renewing one's membership.[2]
After only approximately two months the site was deemed a failure.[3]
Touchi-Peters founded Netropolitan Club so that wealthy people could have a place to network with other wealthy people, and share their activities as well as discuss their first world problems without alienating poorer people or engendering a backlash.[2] With this goal in mind, the Netropolitan Club had the following distinguishing features:[4]
Netropolitan Club has been covered in International Business Times,[1] the Los Angeles Times,[2] the Express Tribune,[5] NPR,[6] Inc.,[7] and the Huffington Post.[8] A CNN commented that it sounded like "an elaborate ruse in an age when Facebook, Twitter and a host of other social networks are free".[9]