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=What is BlackPlanet?=

BlackPlanet is another type of online community founded in 1997 with a total of 17,810,399 members as of February 28th 2006. The BlackPlanet online community reaches out to African-American users to bring them a personalized community founded on their values and interests and allows them to interact with registered users all over the world. BlackPlanet offers its members various options and features to promote interaction and to connect African-American users worldwide via a community made for them. BlackPlanet is another prime example of narrowcasting on the web.

=BlackPlanet Features=

BlackPlanetCommunity
BlackPlanet offers a feature called Community, which is available to all users. This features allows BlackPlanet members to meet other BlackPlanet members online by performing a search by gender, age range and location. The community feature organizes the users by gender, age range and location to help members locate other members in their area for a possible friendship, pen pals, or even a romantic relationship. Members are given the opportunity to view a personal page by clicking on the names within the result based on the interest in the name and if they wish to establish contact they may leave a message in the form of a “note”. The community feature also offers up-to-date news in politics, entertainment and various other sectors from an African-American perspective. The community feature allows members to play online games, engage in upcoming events and let their voices be heard in BlackPlanet’s online forum. The wonderful thing about BlackPlanet’s community is that despite the targeted audience, BlackPlanet is open to all and all are offered numerous options to make their experience on BlackPlanet a fulfilling and entertaining one.

BlackPlanetJobs
BlackPlanet offers a feature called jobs. The jobs feature allows members to register with BlackPlanetJobs to create a profile and resume useful for submitting to potential employers. BlackPlanetJobs offers members with the opportunity to get in touch with African-American professionals in various fields of work to discuss various issues in regards to careers, internships, and apprenticeships and other employment related information. BlackPlanetJobs serves as an online resource for the latest news in business and other professional orientated functions beneficial to the black community. Lastly BlackPlanetJobs offers members the ability to perform searches for possible careers by name and location, posts weekly polls, posts success stories and has available a career related forum to share news on employment.

BlackPlanetLove
BlackPlanet offers a service called BlackPlanetLove. Members are awarded with the opportunity to create BlackPlanetLove profiles for possible love connections within the BlackPlanet community. Members are asked to provide the basic facts about them such age, height, location and so on to be viewed by potential partners who may be interested to make a connection. BlackPlanetLove allows members to perform a search by location, age range and by what they are looking for. In order to use this service the member must be 18 years of age and users under the age of 18 are not listed under the BlackPlanetLove service.

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BlackPlanet offers its members the possibility of creating their own space on BlackPlanet to become a part of the online community once they register with BlackPlanet. Personalized pages are free to members and allow members freedom of expression and creativity as long as they do not violate the [|privacy policy] of BlackPlanet. BlackPlanet is strongly against racism, prejudice, discrimination and sexism and any users with objected and offensive material on their personal BlackPlanet page are penalized by having their page removed from the community. BlackPlanet is also strongly against the stealing of photos from the pages of other users. Having their page removed from the community penalizes users that are caught stealing. BlackPlanet aims to sustain equal rights for all within the community but at the same time BlackPlanet is keen on inappropriate conduct within the community.

BP Points and Rewards
BlackPlanet may award members with points and tangible awards based on their contribution and level of engagement within the BlackPlanet community. The more active you are as a member of BlackPlanet, the greater the points you receive which can eventually lead up to a prize based on the amount of points you collect and/or the value of your contribution.

BP Member Voting
BlackPlanet members are give the chance to vote another BlackPlanet member to increase their chances of becoming the member of the week. Typically users will vote based on the content of a member's page, the design of a member's page and lastly based on the popularity of the page. The member with the most votes in a week is awarded with the title "Member of the Week" and is featured on the BlackPlanet homepage for members. The winning member may receive a gift as congratulations on receiving the most votes and hits within a week as well as an allocation of points to contribute to winning another prize.

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http://www.blackplanet.com - BlackPlanet