Most Weird social networks
So, now you think you have joined all the social networks. But I bet, you have not even seen these weird social networks?
Not every social network is alike. Social networking is basically about individuals, and also for those who have offbeat interests. Here are some of the weirdest networks that fulfill those offbeat interests.
Geni.com
Geni is a powerful family organizing tool. Using Geni, you can create your family tree. Al you need to do is enter your name, name of your parents and start your family tree. Then you need to enter the details of your spouse, kids, and siblings and expand the tree of your family. When you reach a point where you don’t know more details about your family tree, you can enter the email ID of the last person in your tree you know, then he will be invited to join Geni enter more members of your family tree and eventually completing it.
SociaLight.com
This is a location based social network where people connect ideas and suggestion to physical locations. You can create and share sticky notes tied to different locations worldwide. Imagine you had gone to Kashmir and your phone beeps and tells you that there is national park just around the corner. Got the idea! This actually what the site plans to do, Tell the people more about locations.
The sociologist at Columbia University are Experimenting online to prove that World is too small. You need to register and login. Once done you are presented with your target person with whom you can contact through friends living closer to him than you. Then you can tell those closer friends contact the target person for you.
This network is those who share similar dreams. You need to submit your dream and find other people who have dreamed the same thing. You can also create dream circles where you can invite people dreaming similarly.
This site aims to connect people on Visual DNA. You just need to select the image which resembles your idea of art. You can go to My Music, My Type of Bedroom and select the images you think would fit the heading. Then you would get a brief description about what type of person you are.
This site meant for the kids. Anyone older than 12 years can join . Parental consent is required for those below 12. After you are registered, you get 25 star dollars to buy clothes and other things for your doll. There are literally hundreds of hairstyles, skin tones, nose shapes etc. available to dress up your doll. Once your free 25 star dollars are exhausted, you can buy more using Credit card.
Owned by the same company behind 43 things.com, this site connects people through tags. First register and upload a photo, write something about you and sooner or later someone will come and tag you. You can write stories for others and others too can stories about you.
In this network, you connect with people through 3D images of pets like dogs and cats. Fter registering you wil have to list your interests in the provided form. Then your virtual pet will visit other people and find those sharing the same interests. Then you can eventually become friends and what else.
Kiva.org
If you need some loan for your project or business, people in this network who are willing to help you will give you the loan. Kiva is a non-profit organization which has hundreds; if not thousands of Microfinance institutions who solicit interest free loans through Kiva for local businesses. Most loan requests are in range of $100 or less and almost all of them get repaid.
Many of ‘us’ (I’m using ‘us’ because I’m also) are attracted to Ghosts, haunted castles, werewolves, vampires and other dark tales. This site is for those who have these ‘qualities’ in them. You need to register free and upload a Photo and write a brief description about you. You can also select tags that best describe your interests and others sharing those interests will find you and then chat with you all within the website.
I checked out some of these sites. Weird!! The best one is matchadream.com . Amazing stuff I never realized that other people have the same kinds of dreams that I do. One was almost an exact match. Thanks!
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I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my reader.
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Not at the moment, I get the feeling it might somehow be an issue with yield build, which I am currently testing out on the site.
I just recorded teh page load with Firebug and it seems that most of teh delays are coming from the adverts.
I’ll get in touch with their tech support and see whats happenign, they have been undergoing some upgrades recently so it could be because of that. Thanks for the heads up though!