So what do you want from your virtual community? Want to meet new people? Want to write your own blog? Want to join intellectually stimulating or just for fun discussion groups? Want to create virtual photo albums and share them with friends? Want to get involved with online dating? Send personal messages? Create your very own video log? Gazzag might just be the answer for you.
The Gazzag community was founded in 2004. It’s base of operations is Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is available in a number of languages: English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese. Members interact and network with one another from all across the globe.
Like other virtual communities, Gazzag seeks to provide any virtual service that its members might require. One of its most popular aspects is its online dating potential, a growing part of the Internet. With so many members already signed up with the online community service, it is easy to find the person of your dreams through its online matchmaking services.
If you’re worried about the cost of Gazzag, don’t worry: it is absolutely, 100% free. Unlike some virtual communities, though, if you want to join Gazzag community, you have to be 18 or older. This is not MySpace we are talking about here. This is due in part to its emphasis on its use in online dating.
The dating service is simple. You sign up, create a profile, and search about the site through other profiles posted by other members. As Gazzag serves as its own messenger, it is easy to contact potential online matches through the site. Of course even if you join for the dating services it doesn’t mean that you are ineligible to use all of the other services offered: you get them too.
This online virtual community is currently in version 2.0, and it is growing and expanding all the time. According to Alexa the main web site is currently one of the top 10,000 most visit pages on the entire Internet, so you know there are a lot of people logging on and using the service. Just checking out its main web site (www.gazzag.com), you can find out how many people are online at any given time.
Before you join, though, there is one warning: Gazzag has come under a lot of criticism for spamming. When you join up and enter in your e-mail address and log in e-mail addresses in your friends file, you and all of your friends (even if they aren’t members) will get e-mails from the community. Your friends will get constant messages asking them to join up, which will only stop when they finally do sign up. Some worry that the community they joined to make new friends might end up causing them to lose some of their old friends, so keep this in mind before you click that Join Now! button.