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Craigslist TV Showcases Users and Their Wacky Classified Ads

by Caleb Johnson on May 18, 2010 at 07:20 AM

Craigslist TV Missed Connections
If you've ever wondered what the people who create weird posts on Craigslist might be like, now you can find out without having to meet them in person. According to Social Times, the online classifieds site recently launched Craigslist TV, which is a weekly Web series that highlights users and their insane posts. Back in March, Los Angeles area users who posted to the site were asked to participate in Craigslist TV, which is being produced by the same folks who do 'Project Runway.' The response was apparently great. The documentary-style videos posted on the site's YouTube channel range from a fashion designer who wants Sandra Bullock to wear his dress to a woman looking for a husband on Craigslist. There's even one about a couple of lonely girls who are looking for a missed connection from their local Subway and Starbucks (video of that gem after the break). After watching a few of the videos, we didn't know whether to laugh or to cry.

Obviously, Craigslist aims to use these webisodes as marketing tools, but we're not convinced that it will work. In fact, if anything, these folks make us want to stay farther away from the classifieds site. But the videos serve another purpose: creating more reality-TV stars. Casting agents from VH1 and Bravo must be licking their chops after seeing the poor, unstable, attention-hungry souls on Craigslist TV. [From: Social Times, via: AP/SF Gate]

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