| ersonal Side of Craigslist | | | | location. It exemplifies the degree of popular that can |
| I have a tee shirt from Craigslist. The money I | | | | be achieved for a website through word-of-mouth |
| bought it with goes to support community service | | | | marketing alone. Furthermore, Craigslist demonstrates |
| efforts. I wear it often since I love craigslist so much. | | | | a business enterprise that refuses to have |
| It took me a while to realize that when I wear it | | | | money-making as its main goal. No advertisements |
| people who must mostly have their mind in the | | | | appear on the site, a tribute to its service-oriented |
| gutter, assume I am a regular poster on the casual | | | | nature. rather, Craigslist is more intent on doing what |
| encounters section. Actually, I had never even read | | | | seems best for society rather than maximizing a |
| that section until recently, but even there Craigslist | | | | monetary return. In addition, Craigslist is a leader in |
| outshines regular newspaper classifieds, in my opinion. | | | | the open source movement, although their product |
| I have used Craigslist to find employees, get renters, | | | | isn’t open source software. |
| make friends, free cycle things, sell good stuff, find | | | | Other Craigslist Characteristics |
| great stuff, find yard and estate sales, get clients, | | | | Many users enjoy Craigslist because it seems to |
| find dates for my elderly mother, do salary research, | | | | march to a beat all its own. A wonderful resource for |
| do rental research, get questions answered, find | | | | many needs, perhaps its greatest endorsement is |
| contractors to fix my house, and get entertained. I | | | | that Craigslist is spreading not only all over the |
| can’t remember how I ever lived without it. | | | | country, but even to other parts of the world as |
| Is there a “Craig” behind Craigslist? | | | | well. In fact, many turn to Craigslist before ever |
| There sure is! Craigslist was started by programmer | | | | opening their local newspapers. |
| Craig Newmark as a fun project for his friends in San | | | | Threats to Craigslist |
| Francisco. Craigslist is now one-fourth owned by | | | | As already discussed, Craigslist is not threatened by |
| Ebay, although so far the corporation has done | | | | newspaper competition since many people go to |
| nothing with the ownership and now even seems to | | | | Craigslist first, or even exclusively. The site’s |
| be creating a competing site. | | | | reputation as a friendly community is only threatened |
| Craigslist, like Wikipedia, is policed by volunteers. I | | | | by users who take advantage of it to post |
| personally police the section of my local craigslist that | | | | inappropriate or mis-categorized content. Spammers |
| is related to my husband’s business. You can | | | | and scammers could potentially infiltrate Craigslist and |
| report violations of the Terms of Service by emailing | | | | turn it into a website full of get-rich-quick schemes. |
| the violation to and they will promptly take action. | | | | As mentioned earlier, Craigslist is policed by |
| Outstanding Aspects of Craigslist | | | | volunteers; let’s hope they’re able to |
| An extremely popular site, Craigslist is in fact in the | | | | continue doing the good job they’ve been |
| Top 10 list of internet sites. For those who | | | | doing so we can all continue to benefit from this |
| aren’t familiar with it, Craigslist is a free | | | | wonderful resource. |
| classifieds service available online and sorted by | | | | |