I’m off to Dayton, Ohio this weekend to help a friend celebrate getting older (isn’t it amazing the things we humans celebrate?), so I leave you with this flashback for today. 10 Years Ago on Psych Central Fee-for-service Self-Help Sites Ten years ago this summer, I wrote about a questionable new trend at the time of a growing number of mental health self-help websites which began appearing that charged users access to their services. Keep in mind, this was during the heydays of the dot.com boom, meaning that all you needed was an idea and a website and investors would hand over fistfuls of cash. This was a horrible business idea in 1998, and remains so today. People generally don’t pay for subscription services online, with a few notable exceptions (online dating and dieting/weight loss). Even today, I still see new services...
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