With the reported online crime happening on major social networks today, parents should take it into their hands to ensure that their kids’ online social playground is as safe as it could be. MySpace, Facebook and the others may be too big already to prevent malicious members from attacking the younger members of these social networks – so no one is safe on this social networks. Fortunately, there are still some social networks who promise to provide a safe haven for kids, their parents and for the whole family. Welcome Commily – a social networking community for real families and for real communities.
Built by social networking parents, Commily aims to make parent lives easier and as fun as possible together with their respective families. It allows us, parents to communicate with other parents online, at anytime, to arrange schedules, playdates and even carpools and still be exposed to the little bits of information that are central to our family lives within our communities.
We got to give credit to the people behind Commily for coming up with such an idea for a family-oriented social networking site and for striving to give us all a safe and secure online place.
So, what can you do in Commily? Practically everything that you usually do in a usual social networking site. You can create your family’s profile, no matter how many kids you have. You can use Commily to be organized and updated about your kids activities. You can talk to other parents in your neighborhood, from your kids school, your community centers and faith organizations. You could even arrange events with family buddies, such as playdates, carpools, parties and outings.
One unique feature of Commily is its revenue-sharing program called “Giving Back with Commily”. The site promises to share a percentage of its revenues (through ads, I suppose) with the real communities of its users by donating to local charities which are selected by members themselves.
With a feature-rich social network with a noble purpose, I don’t see any reason why we should not support Commily. Commily doesn’t promise to compete with other social networks, but proposes an alternative and a worthy alternative at that.
