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Growing bolder? Growing boomier? Sucking up Social Security and Medicare like there's no tomorrow? But there's something missing. Your kids are on Facebook, but they deleted their accounts when you friended them. And let's not talk about what happened on Match.com.

What's a social-networking-curious silver fox to do?

Welcome to GrowingBolder.com. It's about attitude! (or so the logo says; we'd say, judging from the looks of the site, it's about not scaring anyone away with pre-Year 2000 web design.) In fact, it reminded us a lot of this:




Their motto: "Buy it at the store!" Wait, no, it's "We're the ones that brought video to the 50+ demographic." (As our music editor quipped, "What did anyone over 50 think TV, movies and camcorders were before this? Wizardry?")

But then that sharp-witted music editor pointed out that Marc Middleton, founder of GrowingBolder, is the same ex-WESH reporter who's acted as spokesman for the mysterious Blackwater-like firm AQMI. Guess being the public face of a private firm that "provides security" in the Congo and flies cargo planes to and from Afghanistan pays well! Oddly enough, Middleton's Wikipedia page doesn't include this assignment. Do feel free to hie on over and take care of that; let's give Orlando's newest netrepreneur a big Web 2.0 welcome!

Posted by Jessica Bryce Young on 10/12/2009 9:16:01 PM Permalink | Comments: 0

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