The development of social networks for older Americans continues. In addition to the memories sites I mentioned the other day, there is now an adult version on MySpace.

US News and World Report presents an interesting introduction to Eons, a 50+ social networking community for baby boomers and above. This is a total lifestyle community that provides information on health, money, relationships, goals and even obituaries. It also gives the member an opportunity to build a lifemap of memories and pictures. Plus it has an interesting search feature, cRANKy returns top four pages based on Eons member rankings.

Thanks to e-Fluentials for the tip.

Update: The more I think about these online community/social networking sites, I see the natural development for some of these sites is to mashup with sites like meetup, so that you have a hybrid between online and offline community. The interesting thing about sites like eons or ourstory or families is that people can create photo albums and story journals. This is very similar to the scrapbooking phenomenon that is so big in the nation. Scrapbooking combines preserving memories with community, so that people gather in small groups to talk, tell stories and put their scrapbooks together. I see the same potential for some of these sites focused on memory sharing and connecting.