Why homepageNOW is safer than online social networks
Social network portals and Web 2.0 services are booming. But recently the dark side of social networking is in the news. Posting your views, pictures and videos in a public place attracts an audience you hadn’t considered. Sexual deviants, groomers and unwanted pests have been targeting and stalking young people on social networks forcing legislators all over the US into action.
Besides worrying about predators going for the younger children, teenagers and college students have something else to worry about…
Imagine what would happen if in 10 years time you go for a job interview and your prospective employer has read every post you made in your blog, every comment you wrote in someone else’s and has watched every video you posted in video communities. A simple search engine search and some cross referencing software is all it takes. Would you still get the job?
So how can you run a blog, share photos, videos and music with friends and family and still have freedom and fun?
Instead of your information being open to the public, we offer safe personal homepages where you can express yourself to a social community YOU choose. You invite people you already know like your family and friends by adding them to your Buddy list and giving them access rights for your blog, your album and your party invitations. For extra security, you can even password-protect your homepages and make them unavailable to the public.
With our hierarchized security options you have multiple options available about the publicity you want to achieve with your homepage. This means you have the possibilities of:
a) being part of our community with your page,
b) not being a part of our community and stay private or even
c) password-protect your homepage so that only people who you invite have access to it.
That way we can ensure that we can fit your needs - may it be publicity or privacy. Whether you're a teenager, a professional with a resume homepage, or someone running a hobby or family history homepage, you’ll find these privacy features easy to use. Of course, you can change your personal security settings for every page you own whenever you want - so you could keep your personal photo page private and password-protected while sharing the thoughts in your blog with the world!
The whole process of setting up a personal homepage takes less than 1 minute. What little information we ask for is only used to activate and individualize your homepage, such as your email address, a nickname for your blog or a family name for a family homepage.
With homepageNOW, you can upload unlimited amounts of photos, music and videos. You can also embed all the videos you want in the blog in seconds thanks to our new upload system. For those who want a small group of visitors and others who want millions of page views - homepageNOW offers you all a safe, secure home.
Want to support the homepageNOW safe space campaign?homepageNOW has created a campaign for the internet to be a safer place to surf. We have created some fun apparel and gift items to support this campaign so please check them out and support a safer internet.
