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A New Way to Make Friends Online

Not many stay-at-home moms take on the challenge of starting a social networking website. But I was beginning to ask myself, how could I find new friends, find a partner to train with me for my upcoming marathon, get some advice on good running shoes, or even find a good plumber? After getting tons of invites to join Facebook, I finally decided to give it a go, and what do you know? In the next month I had over 100 friends. Was I popular or what? Where did these friends come from and what did they want from me? Maybe they were on a quest to win the competition for most friends - I'll never know. After exchanging hello's, and perfunctory "your kids look great" lines, I had no idea what to do with the site.

So after striking out on Facebook, I put an ad on Craigslist, but got a bunch of replies from weirdos whom I knew nothing about and were a waste of time anyway. After all, all I wanted was a running partner - why was that so hard to find?

So I thought...Is there any site that can give me a holistic view of a person? And I got thinking how perfect it would be, if a site brought new people to my doorstep based on my search criteria and I got to sift through the list and find new friends I like. Of course the site should tell me everything about the person to make a decision, such as what they like, where they work, who they hang out with, which school they went to, and what things they are good at. Such information would help me meet new friends online.

And wouldn't it be great for the site to have a dating feature, so you can get to know the person before you go out on a date? This would make my sister's job of finding a date so much simpler and safer, not to mention easier, if she had all the information about the person at hand.

So that's how my site was born. Between handling two kids, a dog, a husband, and a lonely sister, I was able to put together enough time to get MyPax.com up and running. Of course, I was lucky to find some great software developers who took my idea and helped to implement it.

Launching this website was quite a journey. It started out on a whim, but soon became something bigger. I learned many lessons and faced many hardships. The road to building a dream is faced with anxiety, stress, joy, anticipation, and above all, hard work and dedication. There is nothing sweeter than building a product that helps resolve some of my problems, as well as those of my sister and her love life. It worked for us, and it can work for you, too. Anyone wanting to meet new friends online should give it a try.

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Written by Mel Bryson. Meet new friends online through social networking website to find new friends. Make friends online at www.MyPax.com

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