Welcome to The Netropolitan Club – The World’s Most Exclusive Online

Netropolitan: The online country club for people with more money than time

Welcome to The Netropolitan Club – The World’s Most Exclusive Online Community

THE NETROPOLITAN CLUB is a global online community for affluent and accomplished individuals worldwide to socialize in a completely private and secure manner. Current total first-year fees to join Netropolitan are $9,000, payable at registration; subsequent annual dues are $3,000 a year.

Netropolitan is:

- Worldwide: Meet like-minded individuals from across the globe who share your lifestyle and interests

- Private and Secure: The entire service is inaccessible from the public Internet, including search engines. All member transmissions to and from Netropolitan are encrypted

- Ad-Free: Absolutely no third-party or display advertising is sold or shown, and the service pushes no paid promotions to its members. (However, we do allow businesses to create groups and members to advertise to each other, under strict guidelines)

- Moderated: The Netropolitan community is continually monitored by the company’s own professional moderators, ensuring readily-available help and a pleasant and courteous experience for all

- Always available: In addition to polished desktop and laptop interfaces, members can connect via special versions for tablets and mobile web browsers and also via apps (coming soon) for Android and iOS phones

You can use The Netropolitan Club for any purpose – personal, business, professional. Netropolitan is what you make it. Welcome to The Club.

Netropolitan is a new social network that wants to differentiate itself from the riffraff on Facebook by charging a mind-boggling $9,000 (£5,500) to join.

Describing itself as the "online country club for people with more money than time" (or, perhaps, more money than sense), Netropolitan wants to provide "affluent and accomplished" individuals with a way of socialising online that is "completely private and secure".

First-year fees to join the website are $9,000 plus an additional $3,000 for every subsequent year as a member.

For that sum, users get a private, encrypted social network that cannot be viewed on the public web. The site is completely ad-free and moderated by the Netropolitan team to ensure "a pleasant and courteous experience for all". When members sign up, they also have to agree not to divulge the identities of other members to non-members outside The Club and to not take screenshots of people’s profiles.

The site was set up by 48-year-old James Touchi-Peters, who wanted a social network filled with people he could relate to - something he apparently struggled with in among Facebook’s 1.32 billion active monthly users.

The service only launched this week, but Mark Zuckerberg is unlikely to be quaking in his boots any time soon.