Jeff Bridgforth :: Webcraftsman

Crafting Web sites since 1999

I am a Web designer passionate about creating elegant, inspiring, and usable Web experiences that connect with an audience and fulfull business objectives.

A Match.com for Families?

September 18, 2006

Social Web

So your fam­ily does not have any close friends? Well now there is a solu­tion for you. A new social net­work­ing web­site called Friends for Fam­i­lies is here. It is sort of a Match .com for fam­i­lies. All you have to do is pay a yearly fee, fill out a pro­file and begin look­ing for friends.

No, I am not being paid to plug this site. To be hon­est, all of what I said above is not meant to be taken seri­ously. I came across this site while I perused my RSS sub­scrip­tions. I found out about this site through TechCrunch. I just went to the home­page of the Friends of Fam­ily site. I have no inten­tions of try­ing this service.

I do find this inter­est­ing. I think most fam­i­lies are pretty cocooned in this day and age. I am not sure how most peo­ple my age find com­mu­nity. My com­mu­nity revolves around my church fam­ily. But at times I do not feel as con­nected as I would like to. The daily grind of just man­ag­ing life with 2 now 3 kids does not leave me a lot of energy to be proac­tive about set­ting up time with other fam­i­lies. My wife and I have been a part of a small group with some other cou­ples with small kids. That could be a chal­lenge find­ing a babysit­ter from week to week. And now the group is split­ting up because sev­eral of the fam­i­lies are relocating.

Inter­est­ing where this post went. I started out just men­tion­ing a new social net­work­ing site and now I am pon­der­ing being involved in com­mu­nity. I think there is more I could say. But I will save that for another time.

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