When a friend tried to get reporter Melissa Chan to join the app Clubhouse over the summer,

she wasn't interested.

Frankly, it sounded really unappealing to me.

She wanted to invite me because it was invite only and it still is invite only.

I just passed on it.

Why?

Why was it not appealing to you?

Because like a lot of startups in Silicon Valley, the founders get their friends to start

using the product in the beginning.

And so it was all these tech people talking about financing and entrepreneurs and venture

capitalists.

Clubhouse is a social audio app, meaning that instead of there being groups like on Facebook

where people respond to each other's posts, there are rooms, channels really, where up

to 5,000 people can be part of a real-time conversation out loud.

Eventually, Melissa got enough Clubhouse invitations that curiosity got the better

ever and she joined.

When I first went on, it was very much exactly like what I expected.

It confirmed all my worst expectations about the app.

You know what?

I'm going to do this right now.

I'll pull it up.

Yeah, yeah.

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