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  • Spending hours of your time on the internet may not be all that bad

    by vickyjuttla @ 2009-03-31 – 11:24:18

    For the vast majority of us, logging onto the internet each day and surfing the web has become an integral part of our lives. I can often spend at least a couple of hours each evening, mainly on social networking sites. I find myself flicking between them mainly to see what my friends are up to. But this does however sometimes result in me thinking, wow, I have actually spent so much time looking aimlessly through web pages? What have I actually achieved with the precious amount of spare time I have in the evenings?

    Granted, Evergenes is a social networking site with all the usual features that other sites have to offer, i.e. upload and share photos; connect with friends and family and so on. But with Evergenes all the scrapbooks about my life that I have created, are stored on the web forever, and hence the time I have spent creating them has been constructive.

    I personally don’t relish the thought of getting old, passing away and being forgotten. At present, I have not done anything that remarkable to warrant my life being displayed in a book. Knowing that I will be on the internet forever makes me feel like I will not be forgotten, and my great, great grandchildren will be able to look at photographs of me and learn all about my life.

    Scrapbooks can be created about any aspect of your life by entering into any one of the 13 main categories (career, interests, pets, holidays, occasions etc), in which you can create albums to upload your photos, audio, video and text, explaining the story behind each one. Everything you upload can be assigned one of 5 privacy options. I love this as there are some photos I do not want certain people to see! The ‘public release date’ feature allows you to have control over when you would like your account to become public, whether it is now or in 20 or 50 years time.

    You don’t have to spend hours building your profile. Allocate just half an hour a week or whatever time you can spare and not only can you look back and see how your life has changed over the years, but so can your future generations.

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  • Evergenes - A new and useful social networking site

    by vickyjuttla @ 2009-03-18 – 15:27:51

    So, what is http://www.evergenes.com/? Not another free social networking site?! Yes, but with a difference. Spending your precious time using this site can actually be worthwhile not only for yourself, but for your family and friends in years to come.


    Since I turned 30 years of age, I began to think more about life. One of my thoughts was how we take many of the things we have for granted and that I was glad to have been born in this generation. Simple, basic things such as central heating, mobile phones, Sat-nav, HD televisions, DAB radios, iPod’s, Wii’s…………..the list is endless. However it was not so long ago that families used to huddle together around the fire to keep warm watching TV in black and white, or if you were not fortunate enough to have one, then listening to a crackly radio station.

    This made me think about my ancestors. How did they live? Where did they live? What did they do to entertain themselves? What did they think of the world as they knew it?

    So, I decided to take a look into my families past, but unfortunately did not get very far. This is largely due to the fact that my parents moved to England in the 1960’s, so to find out about my grandparents and great grandparents is virtually impossible for me unless I go to India, and even then I wouldn’t know where to start. All I have to go on is what my parents can tell me and a few dusty old photographs which I’m sure will end up in a box in the attic, only to be long forgotten about.

    Currently, the easiest place to access information about anything you desire is via the internet. Wouldn’t it be fantastic if I could just log onto the web and easily find out about my ancestors? Well, this is a great idea, and is now possible through Evergenes by making the time and effort to build your own profiles on the site. But why stop there? Build profiles for your parents if they are unable to do so themselves and ask them about your grandparents and great grandparents and create profiles for them too. Evergenes is completely FREE to use, all it requires is a small amount of your time.

    You can then in turn sit down with your own children, log onto www.evergenes.com and easily show them all about their family history. It would also be interesting to look back at yourself over the years and see how your own life has changed. Evergenes donates 10% of profits to charities within the Evergenes foundation, so by regularly using the website you too are helping these charities.

    So why not give it a try and do something worthwhile.

    The past, present and future, www.evergenes.com…life goes on-line.

     

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