New social networking site for Caribbean people - My Abeng

Mark Lee, a Caribbean communicator in Canada, has just started a new social networking site for Caribbean people. And there’s a prize! Mark says:

“For the first six months I’ll be giving away a car/desktop fridge in a draw twice a month for the initial set of users. There are no costs or strings attached.”

My Abeng uses technology to help people in disparate places keep in touch through discussion forums, live chat, internal email and blogs.

Members can choose to include as much or as little as they care to include in personal and professional profiles and they may create contacts based on their own grouping system: that could be friendship, professional association, politics, academics. Members also have the option to block those they don’t want to be part of their contact group.

Members may also create events lists for either themself, their contacts or all to see. There’s the ability to search the site be it for people on-line, the forums, blogs or to attempt to match you with similar profiles.

The bottom line is that the tools are there for users to create their own personal networks and share in communication. All this is built around your desktop that is your centralized location for receiving new mail notices, contact requests etc.