Boomerang

Since moving to San Francisco six months ago, my roommates have had the average shelf life of a fledgling social network. I have lived with 16 different people, some of whom were merely nameless faces I passed in the hall on the way to the bathroom. Looking for perfect housemates requires hours of forced conversations among complete strangers. Through my experience, I have learned that there is one universal question at the end of every craigslist open house post: “What kind of music do you listen to?”

Music is a powerful faith, chock-full of devotees brought together by their mutual loyalty to some hip-hop disciple or rock god. You are what you listen to. The online community imeem.com revolves around the world’s passion for rhythm, and that is why it’s not just another social network. imeem is a craving.  

The best part about imeem is creating personal streaming, music playlists from its vast and diverse free library. Pull up your imeem page and you have all your favorite music at your fingertips to listen to at work or share with friends.  

The thousands of users from around the globe sharing their personal collections make discovering new music easy on imeem. Other music sharing Web sites like Pandora and MySpace are limited by its selection. And though imeem leans toward personal use, companies and business professionals can create blogs, upload photos and calendars to share with clients and colleagues. As you can tell, I’m an imeem convert, despite my progressive hearing loss, under a music spell.