#netaround

Belongingness is a fundamental human emotional need, and people readily form relationships or connections with others without forcing to do so. This creates a huge demand for social networking. Today, people, especially college students and professionals generally seek ways to expand their social connection either through online social network platforms or through traditional offline communication. Facebook helps people accumulate friend’s connections up to hundreds or thousands in a short period of time, are suspicious in friendship quality. Among the average of 130 Facebook friends, people will only interact with 3 or 4 of them. On the other hand, traditional social networking such as by referral, or face-to-face communication in any occasion does provide a higher quality relationship, but the quantity is limited. Our mobile application, Netaround, helps offsetting the shorts sides of friendships or connections that are formed through solely online or offline social network channel.

Netaround, is a social network platform that provides a unique navigation based networking function, which helps people who are under similar geographic locations immediately circled up from a specific event or based on common interests or similarities. Neta users can either create a Neta Zone that is bonded with a real location range, or detect and join any Neta Zones nearby. Once a Neta Zone is created, it becomes an independent small virtual platform that members of the group will be able to chat with each other no matter where they are. Neta acts as a contact book that allows everyone to collect contact information of different kinds of people they come across.