Take the Headache out of Social Networking
Are YOU getting sick of logging into social networking sites and for some unknown reason - the way it works has been changed yet again?Finding your friends and photos becomes a chore, I mean, you've only just familiarized yourself with the changes they made a few weeks ago!
There is no need to worry about that happening with bongal. Over a year of research and design has ensured the perfection of the layout, whilst still allowing users to take full advantage of all the interesting features.
The colour scheme, location of buttons, menus etc.. all make the exploration of the site as easy to use as possible. It also contains numerous helpful tutorials to all those new users, rather than lengthy instructions. In other words bongal aims to please.
Everyone here at bongal is very excited about the launch so that WE can show YOU what we have been working on for all this time.
Roll on February 15th!!!!
Other Social Networks
Facebook is a social network site that started out strictly for uni students and was available by invite only. It is now cultural phenomenon reaching across the globe. Facebook has now overtaken Myspace to be the leader of the social network big boys.
Facebook is made up of separate networks based around schools, businessesand regions. Although registration is now open to the public, the site still caters to a college and high school demographic focusing on networking through groups and social activism.
Profiles allow users to post pictures, comments, blogs and apps. It also has some of the best privacy options on the Internet. It is mainly used to connect with people you already know in the real world but there are some limited features allowing users to meet new people
One of the problems with Facebook is that it lacks customization options. However, most users like the design and uniform feel of the site the way it is.
MySpace is extremely popular and receives a lot of traffic, but is not for the serious blogger.
The advantages to MySpace include the ability to upload and share video, audio and image files as well as a blog. But blogging is not the main business of Myspace, MySpace’s central focus is social networking.
One of the problems we have with MySpace in terms of blogging, is not many people would want to send their business associates or family to a site that displays the kind of material MySpace users post. MySpace does give you a link to your blog, so you could send your direct link to someone, but if they had to search for your blog it is nearly impossible to find. For example, in order to find work–friendly blogs, we tried to find blogs on cars and dogs; we were given a list of blogs that had more to do with sex than cars or dogs.
If your primary interest is social networking and non–professional blogging, then MySpace will work for you, otherwise try WordPress.
Very popular in the UK, Bebo is beginning to give some of the other social networking sites a real run for their money. Like other sites you can personalize your profile, add apps, set privacy settings and join groups.
The site is almost too secure making it difficut to use but there are definatly some interesting features.
Friendster is one of the most popular social networking sites in Asia. Now, it is starting to make an impact in the United States. Friendster provides plenty of networking features, the ability to customize your personal profile and to get you on your way to establishing a large network of friends.
Discover other avenues of expression by posting blogs and joining forums. You can choose from a variety of extra features like videos and groups. Friendster tries to cater to a slightly older crowd requiring users to be at least 16 to join.
Hi 5 is a large social network with a wide reaching following. . It allows users to connect with people they dont know from all over the world.
hi5 offers profile customization, security options and apps. A few of the things keeping hi5 out of our top three is the difficult search options, their sad help and support section and dependency on apps. It als has more of a younger and childish feel.
All in all bongal feels that it is sitting pretty in this diverse marketplace. We cant wait to show you!!!!
Facebook VS Twitter leaving a gap for something new???
All that social networking, it's for the children right? Apparently not according to the most recent survey of the people using the popular websites.
Conducted by an independant organisation, a survery has shown that Facebook is definitely getting older, hopping from a median age of 26 in May 2008, to 33 now.
Considering Facebook was made for college students, its certainly an interesting move upwards, but could be attributed to nosey parents signing up to keep an eye on their wayward teens.
Even more interesting is that despite a number of reports saying that the young'uns out there have no interest in Twitter, it is currently the second youngest social network out there – even though the median age is still 31. Once again does this now leave a gap for a new social network with fresh new ideas (bongal)?
Out of all of the social networks, MySpace came out with the youngest average age at 26, but really – apart from musicians, does anyone use MySpace anymore even though in its day it was a great site?
We would be very interested to find out your preffered social network and where you think it is lacking?
Bongal Team
Bongal to the rescue
Facebook, the online social grid, can't command your loyalty forever can it?
If you ask around, as I did, you’ll find quitters. One ex user, I bumped into the other day, had shut down his account as he disliked how nosy it had made him, as if he wasn't already! Another feared the invasion of her privacy, whilst another was just totally bored with it.
Falling out of love with Facebook has come in waves, and the gap in our lives has left an opening for a site, Bongal.
Many seem to have just lost their appetite for it: they just stopped wanting to look at other people’s photos and résumés and updates, or have their own subject to scrutiny. Some ex-users seemed shaken, even heartbroken, by their break-ups with Facebook. “I primarily left Facebook because I was wasting so much time on it,” my friend Caroline Harting told me by e-mail. “I felt fairly detached from my Facebook buddies because I rarely directly contacted them.” Instead, she felt as if she stalked them, spending hours a day looking at their pages without actually saying hello.
Julie Klam, a writer and prolific and eloquent Facebook updater, said in her own e-mail message, “I have noticed the exodus, and I kind of feel like it’s kids getting tired of a new toy.” Klam, who still posts updates to Facebook but now prefers Twitter for professional networking, added, “Facebook is good for finding people, but by now the novelty of that has worn off, and everyone’s been found.” As of a few months ago, she told me, Facebook “felt dead.”
Is Facebook doomed to someday become an online ghost town, run by zombie users who never update their pages and packs of marketers picking at the corpses of social circles they once hoped to exploit?
Sad, if so but good news for all those of you at this blog as there is a saviour coming.
If you ask around, as I did, you’ll find quitters. One ex user, I bumped into the other day, had shut down his account as he disliked how nosy it had made him, as if he wasn't already! Another feared the invasion of her privacy, whilst another was just totally bored with it.
Falling out of love with Facebook has come in waves, and the gap in our lives has left an opening for a site, Bongal.
Many seem to have just lost their appetite for it: they just stopped wanting to look at other people’s photos and résumés and updates, or have their own subject to scrutiny. Some ex-users seemed shaken, even heartbroken, by their break-ups with Facebook. “I primarily left Facebook because I was wasting so much time on it,” my friend Caroline Harting told me by e-mail. “I felt fairly detached from my Facebook buddies because I rarely directly contacted them.” Instead, she felt as if she stalked them, spending hours a day looking at their pages without actually saying hello.
Julie Klam, a writer and prolific and eloquent Facebook updater, said in her own e-mail message, “I have noticed the exodus, and I kind of feel like it’s kids getting tired of a new toy.” Klam, who still posts updates to Facebook but now prefers Twitter for professional networking, added, “Facebook is good for finding people, but by now the novelty of that has worn off, and everyone’s been found.” As of a few months ago, she told me, Facebook “felt dead.”
Is Facebook doomed to someday become an online ghost town, run by zombie users who never update their pages and packs of marketers picking at the corpses of social circles they once hoped to exploit?
Sad, if so but good news for all those of you at this blog as there is a saviour coming.
About Social Networks
Social networks have become an integral part of the normal human life. They have gone from being just for individuals to keep in touch with friends and meet new people to businesses using them to keep abreast of news and information.
The web based platform-otherwise called social network sites assists the exchange of thoughts, views thereby forming communities of like- minded individuals. Through social network sites individuals can create profiles which may be either private or public. Connecting individuals within a bounded system makes the world really look small. Business professionals can also make their presence count globally with some popular business networking sites. Social Networks allow individuals to browse through each other's profiles and can even act as a communal force for shaping public opinion.
The number of business networking sites as well as social networking sites have increased enormously over the last few years .But potential threats to privacy of such social networking sites are yet to be secured completely. The information often found in profiles such as hometown ,date of birth or some other personal information have been used illegally without users' consent.
This sites are proliferating and growing in popularity worldwide. With the associated feature of business networking, the business professionals can use the social networking sites as a platform for their business promotion. The global exposure that the networking sides provide, keeps it in front of any other media. The interactive and easy upkeep features have earned global acceptance of the social network sites.
In the beginning the social networking sites only focused in building niche communities. But now they have expanded their boundaries enabling individuals to fulfill their specific needs whether it is for dating, academics , business networking for business professional or even for simply friend-making. Studies reveal that social networking sites primarily support pre-existing relations, but this is not where the purpose of this sites end, often users engage in searching for people with whom they have an offline connection thereby bridging online and offline social networks.
This sites are even worthy for industry researchers. Researchers have been able to gather important information regarding the behavior of the individuals associated in any community. There have been instances of individuals faking their identities. It has been found that individuals are concerned in keeping or renewing their past contacts and are only centered on any particular group rather than making new friends. Profile and linkage information from any social networking site can be gathered through the use of automated collection techniques, which enables network analysis researchers to explore friending patterns, usage and other important factors.
The web based platform-otherwise called social network sites assists the exchange of thoughts, views thereby forming communities of like- minded individuals. Through social network sites individuals can create profiles which may be either private or public. Connecting individuals within a bounded system makes the world really look small. Business professionals can also make their presence count globally with some popular business networking sites. Social Networks allow individuals to browse through each other's profiles and can even act as a communal force for shaping public opinion.
The number of business networking sites as well as social networking sites have increased enormously over the last few years .But potential threats to privacy of such social networking sites are yet to be secured completely. The information often found in profiles such as hometown ,date of birth or some other personal information have been used illegally without users' consent.
This sites are proliferating and growing in popularity worldwide. With the associated feature of business networking, the business professionals can use the social networking sites as a platform for their business promotion. The global exposure that the networking sides provide, keeps it in front of any other media. The interactive and easy upkeep features have earned global acceptance of the social network sites.
In the beginning the social networking sites only focused in building niche communities. But now they have expanded their boundaries enabling individuals to fulfill their specific needs whether it is for dating, academics , business networking for business professional or even for simply friend-making. Studies reveal that social networking sites primarily support pre-existing relations, but this is not where the purpose of this sites end, often users engage in searching for people with whom they have an offline connection thereby bridging online and offline social networks.
This sites are even worthy for industry researchers. Researchers have been able to gather important information regarding the behavior of the individuals associated in any community. There have been instances of individuals faking their identities. It has been found that individuals are concerned in keeping or renewing their past contacts and are only centered on any particular group rather than making new friends. Profile and linkage information from any social networking site can be gathered through the use of automated collection techniques, which enables network analysis researchers to explore friending patterns, usage and other important factors.
The bongal Philosophy
Here at bongal we are trying to tailor the site to cover the needs of all the users. We have created our core values or "The bongal Philosophy".
There are too many sites out there that just dont work when it comes to meeting exciting new people. Faceparty, Badoo, Bebo, Myspace, Facebook all lack the bongal magic.
The bongal Phiosophy is all about ensuring that people who choose to use the site are only connected with users and groups/forums that they are interested in. Exactly how we do this will have to remain a secret for now.
No more logging into a social network and being "poked" or invited to join a group related to something you have never heard of. No more invited to silly events you have no interest in. No more strange messages from users you have no interesting in communicating with. At bongal it is all exactly tailered to your needs.
Oh yeah, did i mention its completley free to join.
Animated Logo
We are very excited today after agreeing on our animated logo. We wanted to carry through the theme of the explosion and the colours of the logo. Let us know what you think?
Get a secret invite
The launch of the site has been planned for February 2010 we will be inviting a select few to try it out pre launch. This will give those lucky few the chance to win some awesome prizes in the hope we will recieve some feedback on areas the site could be improved.. If that is at all possible.If you go to www.bongal.com and register we will let you know when the competition starts and send you a secret password to join up early with the chance to win one of the prizes.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Getting our name out there
Filming is now complete on the bongal advert. It was a long hard slog but should be really great when the editing is finished. Once complete we will be sending the video to as many people as possible in the hope they will then send it on to their friends. We dont want anyone missing out on the Social Explosion!!!