"Let the Community drive the content" -TFM

THEY WROTE ME BACK! I'm really excited because these people are like celebrities to me. They developed a website (much like Mark did with facebook) from nothing and let it grow and got rich off of it $$$$ kudos my friends, kudos. Below I copied and pasted our email convo.

Hey TFM,

Hoping you can answer a few questions, help a sorority girl out, and enlighten others.Greatly appreciated. =)
1. who founded tfm.com (ages, school)
2. how did you come up with the idea?
3. what were the initial steps to creating tfm.com?
4. what website programs did you use? (wordpress, godaddy?)
5. explain the process of getting everything copyrighted and terms and conditions
6. how does it work when people send you quotes? do you have a panel of expert frat dudes that decide which ones make the cut?
7. technologically speaking, on your website how do you enable boxes like facebook, twitter, comments, posts etc...
Best,
Liz
Florida State University. TSM.

They replied:

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Happy to help.
1. Due to confidentiality agreements we are not able to disclose personal information about ourselves.
2. My partner approached me with the idea for the site and I immediately new it was worth pursuing. In our experience, the satirical comedy among the Greek community is unlike any other. Many sites have attempted to capture this genre, but have failed to do it justice. Our approach is to let the community drive the content, while we moderate based on what we think is the most entertaining of the submissions.
3. Step one is to register the domain. Luckily, TotalFratMove.com was unregistered so we purchased it immediately. Step two is to determine how the site should work and what it should look like. Step three is to either be a web developer or find an all-star web developer; this is the most crucial step.
4. TFM is built on the Wordpress platform. We used Wordpress as a starting point to leverage its content publishing functionality.
5. Legalzoom.com is all you need in the beginning.
6. When someone submits a new post it is entered as a draft. Our moderator reviews all drafts and either approves or deletes the post. Once approved, the post appears on the live site.
7. Most websites like facebook and twitter offer developers various ways to interface with their websites. All of the social media links and widgets on TFM use these developer tools. Much of the core functionality is a manipulation of existing Wordpress functionality.
-TotalFratMove.com

Well I'm impressed! I especially liked the part he said about "letting the community drive the content" because in a way we are the reason the internet and media has gone so far. We are the reason some sites survive while others were just a waste of time. Facebook, twitter, and tfm all thrive because young adults like myself enjoy spending time on them. It all goes back to the uses and gratifications perspective. Our media behavior changes all the time because the gratifications we seek from the media are in a constant state of flux.

-for richer & for poorer