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Famster Launches First Private Social Networking Site for Families; Social Media Site Offers Safe and Secure Alternative to MySpace

Posted on: Wednesday, 6 September 2006, 09:00 CDT

Famster, a subsidiary of Ivenue.com, today announces the launch of the first private social networking site for families on the Internet. Famster is the first private networking site that allows families to build their own private Web site with multiple layers of security to prevent predators and other uninvited guests from gaining access to their personal information. Since becoming available to the public, over 15,000 individual Famster sites have been built and are currently active. Famster has widely grown throughout the Internet community within only two short weeks of being live. They currently have over 200,000 unique visitors and millions of page views, in addition to being voted the no. 1 site to visit on digg.com twice within the first 48 hours of going live.

Famster is a free Flash-based, user-friendly and safe site that offers multiple features for families to communicate and share content with each other. Features include 1GB of "filing cabinet" storage, 1GB of encoded video storage, a Famstermail e-mail account with 1GB of storage, unlimited photo uploads, scrapbook pages, a blog, a simple RSS reader, calendars, to-do lists, sharing, contacts lists with Yahoo! Maps integration, a recipes section with 23,000 pre-loaded recipes and a place to store other family oriented features. Famster also includes an animated visual component where you can create and customize personal images of characters for your family and surrounding.

"Based on the demand for safer alternatives to social networks and communities, Famster is excited to offer its private social network to families," said Kristin Criss, president of Famster. "The concerns and issues for the safety and security of children and teens surfing Web sites and online communities is constantly evolving and growing. Famster now gives parents a safe alternative to communicating, transferring and posting information, and having fun on the Internet, while relieving the concerns for privacy and security."

Famster will also be adding additional features to the site such as messaging, shared image library, shared calendars and many other content rich features. Famster will also take advantage of the mobile industry and will soon add mobile features to include:

-- Moblogging allows any Famster user with a Multimedia Messaging-enabled device to send text and photos to their Famster blog directly from their device

-- Mobile Photo upload - Post pictures directly from a Multimedia Messaging-enabled device to your Famster Photo album

-- Mobile Video upload - Post videos directly from a Multimedia Messaging-enabled device to your Famster My Video section

-- Mobile Calendar reminders - Receive important text message reminders from your Famster Calendar directly to a Multimedia Messaging-enabled device

-- Famster-to-Mobile text messaging - Visitors can send text messages from any Famster to a Multimedia Messaging-enabled device

About Famster

Famster is the industry's leading private social network built for the family-oriented environment. Famster is exclusively committed to providing the safest and most secure Internet environment for families and children by allowing them to build their own private Web sites. Our integrated and multidimensional platform is built around dual layered password protection and read/write privacy for reach component of the site. Famster offers the only fun, secure family-oriented online community that lets you organize lists and calendars, share photos and videos, and stay in touch with other family members in an unprecedented secure environment. Famster is headquartered in Nevada with offices in Los Angeles and can be reached at http://www.famster.com or 877-326-7837.

Source: Business Wire

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