Why Social Networking?

Integrating social networking gives your business the power to spread virally, around the world.

You can see on the “Why Instant Messaging?” and “Why Online Games?” pages just how huge this market is, and how fast it is growing. But there’s another powerful hook in your new business: its social networking aspect.

What is social networking?
It's online communities such as “MySpace” and “Facebook”, where people add their friends, post photos and entries in the form of a blog, “network” based on shared interests or likes/dislikes, and interact with each other. This phenomenon is also growing staggeringly popular. MySpace currently has 176 million users. And Facebook, now the 18th-most-visited web site in the world, did not even exist until three years ago!

Social networking has been called “The reality TV of the Internet”; and analysts predict it will continue to grow massively rather than being just a passing fad.
A Nielsen//NetRatings report in May 2006 stated that social networking sites were already last year being used by 45% of web users, and traffic to these sites increased 87% over the last year.

People just love collecting their online contacts in one place, and sharing their opinions! Like blogs (short for “weblogs”), publishing diaries and expressing opinions in an online forum holds a very powerful attraction for us.

According to Technorati, there are over 70 million blogs on the Internet, with about 120,000 new ones being set up each day. That’s 1.4 new blogs every second!

Plus, the interactive nature of social networking sites keeps visitors coming back again and again. You can probably begin to see what kind of effect a combined social networking and a global games network might achieve…it’s like a huge arena filled with millions of people in one place, all wanting to play! Imagine being able to harness this powerful medium, and even better, using it to fuel your new online games business...

Well that is exactly what you will be able to do! Not only that, but you can also automatically add all of your current contacts from MSN, Google, AIM and Yahoo! Messenger. THAT’S RIGHT … we are talking about a web-based instant communicator that allows you to send instant messages, view all of your contacts’ online statuses, social network, AND play games, all at the same time, in the same place.

To find out more about the instant messenger (IM) aspect to your business, click here. This is the crowning genius of this business, channelling the massive potential of the fastest-growing communication medium in history — that’s how big instant messaging has become!

Integrating social networking into your games site gives your business the power to spread virally. Players passing on links to your games website though their blogs and messenger will give your business enormous potential to grow rapidly as more and more players continually challenge new friends.

Your players and Associates will be able to use their own uVme blog to share experiences and communicate to all their friends. Players can earn more loyalty points to unlock even more functionality in their blog, from larger storage capacity, to RSS feeds, plus lots more. These elements usually cost on other social networking sites, but your players can access these for free simply by playing more and more games and having fun!

It gets even better... Join now and you can start developing your online community, and during the launch phase it is all FREE.