WorldFriends Blog

Nicholas Paine, and some of us from the WorldFriends team

We had the pleasure of having Nicholas Paine, Board Executive Chairman of Meta4 Group visit our Shanghai office last week.

On Monday evening, we had a good Happy Hour session with Nick as we chatted with him. He spoke of how the consumer Internet industry is a rapidly changing one, requiring all of us to keep up. He also joked about returning all our teachers’ and parents’ teachings, as we most probably have to reinvent many of those theories to stay relevant in the fast-moving industry. Having been both an investor and entrepreneur, Nick shared how he loves building things and dealing with organizational structure. His beginnings with the Internet industry started way back in 1987, when trying to get the bank to even understand consumer Internet was a pretty daunting task.

Nick was the co-founder of Lavalife, and worked with his multicultural co-founders — a WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) (Nick himself), a Jamaican, an American born Chinese, and a Lebanese. No wonder he has so much passion for the international community at WorldFriends!

See you again soon, Nick!

We are looking into making WorldFriends even better for you! Now that you can sign in on WorldFriends using your Facebook account, we’d like to enhance your experience on WorldFriends by further integrating Facebook on our site! But before we do so, we’d like to hear what YOU have to say!

Have you seen the “like” button on our city pages? Take a look at the Tokyo city page, for example. The next feature we’d like to add is the “like” button on group profile pages, forum topics, and personal profiles. What do you think?

Drop us a note here in the comments; enter your comment after you click on “like” at the end of the post; or just have your say on WorldFriends Facebook page or @WorldFriends on Twitter!

Today is an exciting day! WorldFriends Networks is integrating Facebook into our sites!

Login with Facebook
Simply click on the “Login with Facebook” icon in the sign in area, enter your Facebook login information if you’re not logged in on Facebook yet, and then you’ll be signed in on WorldFriends with your Facebook account!

Link your Facebook and WorldFriends accounts
For existing WorldFriends members:

After logging in to WorldFriends with your Facebook account, choose whether you would like to link your Facebook and WorldFriends accounts. Linking your accounts would preserve your account settings when you use your Facebook account to sign in to WorldFriends. Alternatively, you can select that you’re a new user to keep a separate WorldFriends profile when you sign in with your Facebook account.

For new members:

Select that you’re a new user and sign up for a WorldFriends account!

Invite your Facebook friends to join you on WorldFriends
Invite your Facebook friends to meet travel friends and explore the world with WorldFriends! Select up to 12 of your Facebook friends to join you.

Meet travel friends and explore the world with WorldFriends — the International community where you can find new friends who love travel.

As we all know by now, you can meet travel friends and explore the world with WorldFriends — the International community where you can find new friends who love travel. But how, you may ask, can you find friends with common interests or common trip destinations on WorldFriends?

Trip Board

Start by adding a trip! On your trip board, you’ll be able to see other WorldFriends members who will be or are going to your current city. Help them out with your city expertise! After you enter the destination and dates of your targeted city, you’ll be directed to the relevant city page (take Tokyo, for instance) and browse members who live there; grew up there; currently travelling there; will be travelling there; and have been there. You can also “Search City” on the top right of every page to get to your required city page. Get in touch with members in that city page and you’ll be making plenty of travel friends!

Trip Search

WorldFriends’ search function allows you to perform a trip search based on “who have been to”, “who will travel to”, “who is travelling in”, “who was born in”, “who grew up in”, and “who mainly live in” the destination city you are looking for, so that you can browse members with the relevant background and experience in your destination city. You may consult locals for help for your trip; offer help to those who will travel to your city; or simply make friends with people in your own city!

Groups

Browse the groups directory to find a group that interests you. Choose from over a thousand of already established groups or create one of your own! Be active in discussions and wall posts, and before you know it, you’ll be making friends with plenty of like-minded folks who are passionate about the same things as you.

Meet travel friends on WorldFriends today!