Fighting your demons with social networking
by Alice Gnodde
With Facebook and MySpace effectively monopolising the everyman’s social networking industry, the inevitable way to viably get on the social networking bandwagon would be to make them more specific or specialised.
WebTribes Inc. has started a number of support communities for people with specific issues:
- AddictionTribe is for people so are suffering from an addiction, generally drugs or alcohol.
- OCDTribe is for those suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
- AnxietyTribe is for people who are struggling with anxiety in their lives.
- DepressionTribe is for those suffering from depression.
- MyHIVaidsTribe is for people who are trying to cope with HIV and AIDS.
One of the greatest burdens associated with suffering from disorders like depression or addiction is the feeling of isolation that comes with them. It makes sense to have a support system that has the convenience of being able to be accessed online (i.e. immediately).
By being able to share their stories, people are for more likely to feel less alienated by their illness and a social network offers more privacy than a communal forum. It is all about bringing social consciousness into social networking.
Comments
post a commentPerhaps. But maybe just in name? I checked out the site and it seems somewhat disjointed and more of a giant forum to discuss anything. WebTribes seems to be an improvement in any case.
Posted by Alice Gnodde on 2007/06/06
tribes.net is a social networking site, like MySpace and Facebook.
You register, link to friends, join or start "tribes" if you want to - easier to use than MySpace, about the same level of difficulty as Facebook. You can have an RSS feed of your blog(s), so your friends can go and see all your blogs, etc.
Posted by Steve Hayes on 2007/06/06
I have been at Webtribes since October of 2007. And although they market this "service" as being geared towards those with health issues, they allow nude pictures to be posted, dating advertisements, and other things not related to health conditions. Having AIDS, I spoke up about this, and brought it to both the mangement's attention & the "community's". The result was "I" was banned, not these others using the service for anything but health SUPPORT. Their advertising and marketing is False, their commitment to those affected with health issues is False. Upholding their own TOS is FALSE. I would NOT suggest this WebTribes and their unstructured, unmaintained, false and misleading atmosphere to ANYONE!!
Posted by WhattaCrock on 2008/03/03
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That seems to be a rip-off of http://southafrica.tribe.net/
Posted by Steve Hayes on 2007/06/06