What's this site all about?

• Posted by skidpics March 24, 2011 - Filed in General - #blizzbook  - 320 views

  I've been pondering a bit to figure out how to express to the users on what this site is for. 
  As most can tell, its a social network (much like FB), created for your game playing users.  Specifically, Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo Players.

  Now, as the site doesn't necessarily have any real function other than being social at this point, the excerp below basically describes the meaning behind the site.  It's a place for you gamers, to discuss something that most of your friends and family on FB just doesn't understand.  The lengo, abbreviations and talks about ganking just doesn't make a real understanding in today social world withouth knowledge of gaming.  Hell, even I am still learning...

  With the forums, albums for IRL pics, blogs you can rant and rave in and various other functions on the site, I hope for you gamers to meet other likeminded players, without the misunderstandings of what the other world offers. 

  Some wonder why even a social site for Warcraft, SC and D.  Most tell me that lots of people that play are actually anti-social.  Well, I beg to differ by creating one common place, to communicate in..  Prove them wrong I would like - but in the end - it's been set in place for gamers to do so.  So reach out to that Guild Buddy, Real ID list and whoever else you may run into and start inviting.

  Utilize that sharing widget on almost all pages to get the site listed at your favorite corners of the net, and hopefully with that, gain more and more people to join to make this site such a success that I hope for - for right now, Blizzbook is the only social network specifically for Wow, SC and D.  

  Don't forget to post Blogs and forum discussions - as that is where the main conversations need to be.
  

  Below is a blog  excerpt from the old Facesofwow site on what Luthias thought about the site.  He was one of the first timers and helped a lot.  Of course, he is not around anymore at this time, but would love to see him back online one day...

   

  For those of you who don't know me well, I'm Luthias, one of the resident old-timers here on  Faces of WoW. I've been around for a better part of a year and I was fortunate enough to  stumble across the site when it was still in its nacent stages with less than (I believe) a  hundred members at the time. I had no pre-conceived notions at the time about what the site  was or should be, but I was drawn by the idea of finding other WoW players and putting a real  face to the avatar.  I remember thinking, "What a great idea for a site! I hope more people find  this and join." Then I set about doing what pretty much every guy does when he finds FoW:  looking at the profiles of cute, WoW-playing girls.

  With so few members at the time, I wasn't sure whether FoW would ever be more than a  novelty, but I found myself logging in every day just to see what people were up to and who had  joined since I last looked. I was deep in my Facebook-obsession phase at the time, so FoW  was a great way to supplement my compliment of websites that I visited daily: Facebook,  ExtremeTech, Gizmodo, Woot, Engadget, InsideLine, CNN, MMO-Champion, Google Finance,  and the frustratingly unchanging official page for Diablo 3. Yes, I'm a gamer, techie, and geek  by nature, but that's what made me keep coming back to FoW again and again: the realization  that, "OMG, there are other people LIKE ME!" 

  Admittedly, it was what probably should have been an obvious realization. I think it would have  been a much easier realization to come to earlier in my life when I was neck deep in the college  dorm lifestyle, playing Unreal Tournament into the wee hours of the night. It was easier to see  elements of yourself in your peers back then, because people pursued their interests with such  fervor it was as if they had just discovered them for the first time, often because they had. But  then life went and did something cruel: it took all of the friends you had spent 20-something  years collecting and disseminated them across the country like dandelion seeds in the wind. It  gave them partners in life, jobs, kids... all the natural elements of life that conspire against  having free time. But that's the beauty of the internet: you don't have to be close to be close.  You can find new friends in every corner of every state, territory, and country and you can find  them sometimes as easily as the push of a button. Sure, Facebook lets you keep in touch with  old friends, but to me, FoW was a place to make new ones.

  So that's what I did. I exchanged good mornings, good nights, strategies, advice, jokes,  pictures, videos, and experiences with all of the great people that I found on the site. We  created a FoW guild... two of them actually... and although people came and went from it, there  was a real sense of community, regardless of how far away the others were. You could count  on seeing the same faces on the front page of the site every day when you logged in, and it  was oddly comforting, even if you were never quite sure what was going to be the topic of the  day. Sure, it was only pixels, but you knew there were good people behind those pixels, behind  those pictures and words. It was a place where you could talk about the stuff your coworkers  wouldn't understand, where you could find things in common, debate your differences, and  generally feel like you had found a group of peers that understand and share your interests.

  This site means different things to different people, whether it's a just a quick distraction, a  place to socialize, a way to recruit new players, a great way to procrastinate, or just a means  of keeping in touch with the game and players after you've moved on to different things. For me,  this site is where I met one of my best and dearest friends, VA, and for her I will always be  grateful. It's not so very often that you get to find a true kindred spirit, let alone one who knows you better than yourself most days, and in her I found just that. We challenge each other to do  what's right and what's best, to go outside of our comfort zones (yes, I'm going to BlizzCon  despite my reservations about crowds...lol), and to take care of ourselves with the same care we look after other people. We lean on each other when we need support, finish each other's sentences we didn't even know ourselves that we were going to say, and have a complete and total understanding that we accept each other as we are, even if we don't always see eye to eye. I've never had a better friend, and I wasn't expecting to have that sort of connection with someone through a website, especially someone with a penchant for country music (Love you, hon! Don't kill me! <3 lol), but I can say without a doubt that we'll always be close, and I have Skid, this site, and a bit of luck to thank for that. 

  You can get as much or as little out of Faces of WoW as you like. For me it's now a place to  keep in touch with all of the wonderful friends and players I met during my tenure here, and I do  my best to make sure that everyone else enjoys and feels at home on the site as much as I do,  because despite what's going on in your real life, it's always nice to have a place where you feel  understood, a place where you can laugh, be yourself, and belong, even if only for five minutes at a time.

  If you got this far, thank you for reading. And welcome to FoW! =)