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Hug someone today – if you can
- 8 Nov 06, 03:26 PM
A new social network website has launched called . The idea is to provide a space for people with a wide variety of medical, psychological and life conditions, to discuss matters which are important to them and get the support of an online community.
It has many of the things you might expect on a social networking website, and in the spirit of web 2.0, lots of opportunities for user generated content, and interactivity. You can register, and put up a profile and write your own journal. There are lots of communities to join, and each has a discussion board, links to relevant resources and news and information. Its just like , really, but with a more specific audience in mind.
One thing that is quite cool is that users are asked to enter any treatments that they may have had, and to talk about their experiences of it, be it effectiveness, side effects or whatever. Those experiences are then compiled into a database, so that when those databases build, it’ll be easy to see what most people find effective, and what their experiences of it are. For example, 55% of 33 members felt that Effexor was successful in treating their depression, but 67% of the 9 people with (a debilitating chronic syndrome) found it helped them.
The website is still in its infancy, but this one could really take off and be useful to a lot of people. Not all the communities are well populated at this stage – The blindness community, for example, has no members, posts or anything.
One area of the site which could be improved upon is accessibility. You can get around OK it with just the keyboard, and you can do most things with a screen reader (I had trouble hugging someone on mine), but it is an awful lot more work than it should be to do so - there are hundreds of links just on the home page, for example. Given that many visitors will have an impairment of some sort, accessibility is a very real concern, and I would expect the website owners to address this further down the line. This is still a beta version of the site, (or a preview version as they call it) and so now’s the time to make the developers aware of any concerns about usability.
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