Faceparty
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Faceparty is a community social networking website primarily populated by teens through to late twenties. Faceparty allows users to create online profiles and interact with each other using an advanced instant chat, messaging facilities (like an interface to email), and audio "voicemail messaging".
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Services
Incorporated into the website are services that allow you to browse the community by location, age, gender, and sexuality. As well as Groups; a feature that allows members to browse other profiles with similar interests. For those in need of support Faceparty offers Grim Rita, a parodic agony aunt with a dry sense of humour and a great amount of wit at her disposal.
Also Faceparty incorporates paid-for services: Cool Tools allows members to, amongst other things, personalise their profiles and track visits to their profiles. The so-called 'Adult Verification Service' allows members to view adult imagery on other member's profiles, and the name is somewhat misleading; there are other ways to prove someone's age without getting them to spend monthly credit card subscription, and it is possible to buy these services with cards registered to under-18s.
It is quite possible that these pay-for services have contributed to the site's recent decline in the face of other free services, such as MySpace. Many users dislike the amount of censorship on faceparty's profiles. services such as MySpace off a lot more freedom of expression. While the adult verification services are pointless when they are many free adult communities and groups on in Yahoo and MSN. Also because of the emphasis on the pay-for services many of the Free services have been reduced. To encourage people to purchase the premium services. Also faceparty has a notorious amount of advertising on its website compared to other service providers. The sites policy is that no one under 16 may be allowed to join the site. However this is often ignored by under-age teenagers, who simply lie about their age. Faceparty does try to prevent teenagers between the ages of 16 to 18 uploading adult images of themselves with account bannings. Many other websites either have a blanket ban on nudity or have stricter members controls to prevent minors from access and uploading such material.
Public Events
Although serving users internationally, Faceparty markets mainly in the United Kingdom and has run many major events since its launch in 2000, mostly in London. These events include several parties for members featuring well-known popular music acts. Along with the music festival "Big Gay Out", a ticketed event for over 35,000 people in Finsbury Park acting as London's Gay Pride festival for 2004. Big Gay Out was repeated, though this time separate from London Pride, in 2005.