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Comment by AFRICANATUBE Team on July 9, 2010 at 7:06pm

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BACKGROUND - AFRICANATUNE

AFRICANATUBE is a social networking site, which was founded in 2009 by AFRICANATUNE NETWORKS. As of February 15, AFRICANATUBE beta test version was successfully launched to attract millions of internet users.

OVERVIEW

In AFRICANATUBE, users create an online profile in order to show information such as interests, age and hometown and upload user pictures where users can post comments. AFRICANATUBE also allows the user to create personal photo albums and set up a music player in the profile. Users can also send friend requests via e-mail to other users. When a person receives a friend request, he or she may accept or decline it, or block the user altogether. If the user accepts another user as a friend, the two will be connected directly or in the 1st degree. The user will then appear on the person's friend list and vice-versa. Some users opt to make their profiles available for everyone on AFRICANATUBE to view. Other users exercise the option to make their profile viewable only to those people who are in their network. The network of friends consists of a user's direct friends (1st degree), the friends of those direct friends (2nd degree) and the friends of the friends of direct friends (3rd degree). In addition to the above, users can also upload videos, add discussion forums, add blogs, add events, or invite their friends for a little chat via the chat module embedded in their profile.

CLASSIFICATION

AFRICANATUBE is similar to other social networking sites. Each profile must include two specific modules, a comment wall where other users can leave a message, and a list of the user's friends accessed via the Friends directly under profile name located on the far right side of the screen (right panel). Users can select from many more modules to add. By default, when an account is created the profile is private, which limits access to friends specifically added. The user may select the "Public Profile" option so as the profile will still be visible to any other members of a school they may have joined. Profiles may be personalized by a design template that is the background of the user's profile, known as a theme. Profiles include photo albums which allow users to upload an unlimited number of images with no limit per album, blogs with a comment section, a list of music that the user has added. Members can view the recent changes friends have made to their homepage from the 'Home' menu. These changes can include uploaded photos, updated music and newly added videos and friends.

FEATURES

HOME (AFRICANATUBE home page or welcoming page)

In the middle pane: Things you can do (edit profile); Latest Activities (Friends Updates) On the left pane: Members, Videos, Music, Birthdays, Chat Application. On the right pane: Profile features, and ads at the bottom

INVITE

Three options to ‘Send Invitations’ as follow: - Enter Email Addresses - Import from Address Book Application - Import from Web Address Book

MY PAGE (My Profile):

On the far left you have your profile photo, and on the far right you have the profile name and your mailbox and profile settings in the event you choose to amend them. -You can change the appearance of your page by clicking on ‘THEME’ below your profile photo and info – upload your photos or bring in a new theme if you choose to. -You can add Applications, Blog Posts, Discussions, Events, Groups, Photos, Photo Albums, Videos, Music, or RSS. You get to set the appropriate privacy settings for the features you create.

MEMBERS:

All members and My Friends sub tub – with the option to perform search, advanced search, sorting, and inviting friends

PHOTOS:

All Photos, All Albums, My Photos, My Albums, My Favorites – with the ability to add more pictures

VIDEOS:

All Videos, My Videos, My Favorites – with the ability to add more videos: AFRICANATUBE is also a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. The site display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Unregistered users can watch the videos, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Accounts of registered users are called "My Page". Videos that are considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users over the age of 18. The uploading of videos containing defamation, pornography, copyright violations, and material encouraging criminal conduct is prohibited by AFRICANATUBE 's terms of service. Each video may be up to 100MB in size. We support videos in the .mov, .mpg, .avi, .wmv and .3gp file formats - 3GP, allows videos to be uploaded directly from a mobile phone. You can also add videos from Google, YouTube, or other video sharing website.

FORUMS:

All Discussions, My Discussions – with the ability to add a discussion

EVENTS:

All Events, My Events – with the ability to add an event

GROUPS:

All Groups, My Groups – with the ability to add a group

BLOGS:

All Blog Posts, My Blogs – with the ability to add a Blog Post

CHAT:

Embedded online chatting module for friends currently logged in Privacy options We can’t cover all of the options in this document but we will attempt to present the basic options. AFRICANATUBE offers three privacy levels: Anyone, Members and Just My Friends. The setting of ‘Anyone’ means that profiles can be seen by any user, (except that profiles of users younger than 13 years old are seen only by logged in users?). The setting of ‘Members’ means that profiles are seen only by anyone who has registered at AFRICANATUBE. The setting of ‘My Friends Only’ means that profiles are viewable only by direct friends. AFRICANATUBE also allows a user to set the same privacy options to other features such as photos, videos, blog posts, comments, events, and the option to approve comments before they are added.


Phishing

AFRICANATUBE has a mechanism in place to handle phishing emails posing as invitations to AFRICANATUBE

Market share

No statistics have been recorded or compiled as of yet about AFRICANATUBE as a social networking site in terms of monthly unique visitors. The company was created and is headquartered in the United States, it is believed to be more popular among Africans and African Americans, and other members of the African Diaspora especially those in Eurasia and the middle east regions, the website world ranking, and US ranking isn’t known as of the writing of this article. go to Africanatube now --Africanatuben (talk) 05:21, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
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