Essembly

There is a new social networking site on the block but this one won't help you find a 45 year old stalker boyfriend.

Essembly is a social networking site specifically geared for politics and ideas. The site uses "resolves," which are simple statements on one side of an issue, and has people vote on whether they agree, lean-agree, lean-disagree or disagree with the issue. Then your votes get compared to the votes of other individuals to see if you are ideologically similar or not, sorta like OkCupid finds matches.

One of the good things about this site is that they are actually working with real organizations, like the Campaign for America's Future that I talk so much about, so that these organizations can have a real and organized presence on the site. The site is a bit addictive, more so even then MySpace! At this point the site is by invite only as it's still in a beta form. I have a couple invitations I could share, but you'd have to ask nicely. Either way keep an eye open for the site and I'll post about it again as it develops.