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To give you that knowledge, Serendipity combines three scientifically documented phenomena: the strength of first impressions, perceived value, and the wisdom of the crowd.

On joining Serendipity, you begin having four-minute text-chat conversations with other members, who are adults of any age from practically everywhere on Earth. After each conversation, you and your new acquaintance rank each other on multiple instances of three categories of personal identifiers: appearance, individuality, and character.

As you have more conversations, a profile emerges of how others perceive you; the more Serendipity conversations you have, the clearer your profile becomes. You can rely on Serendipity being a true mirror of your image because of its foundation in scientific reality.

Given that the Serendipity app accumulates and compiles detailed information about how others perceive you, you may wonder how safe the data concerning you is with us. The answer: perfectly safe. Each Serendipity user is absolutely anonymous to all other Serendipity users. You will identify any other user only through a pseudonym, which is how any other user will identify you. Aside from your registration information, you are even anonymous to the Serendipity app itself!

For a long time we’ve been interested in how the strength of first impressions combines with the concept of perceived value—read books about these ideas, and followed and contributed to blogs. But when we read James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of the Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, the light bulb really lit up. As social-media programmers, we saw how we could connect all three of these ideas, and help people connect with each other in a more positive way. We saw how social media could overcome the errors inherent in first impressions and perceived value. We designed Serendipity for scalability, including the eventual integration with mobile and other applications.

Special Note to Sponsors: The six extended features described above will be available to you, exclusively, at launch. Noncontributing members will not have access to those features at the launch, Once it is available for them, it will be at a higher price . So if you begin your sponsorship sooner, not only will you sooner gain the knowledge we all want, but you will also get a better deal for it!