What makes us different from Facebook?

What makes Synergy Communities different to Facebook?

1. We are a non-profit organisation which means we will not be looking for every possible way to extract money from you or expose you to an onslaught of unrelated advertising. After costs all proceeds go to fund outreach projects focused on children and education ~ so the more you use the network the more you will be funding / supporting these projects.

2. We take privacy very seriously and provide 3 profiles for you, a Private, Professional and Public profile, which allows you to share what you want with who you want. This prevents, for example, those embarrassing stories of your boss finding out what you did over the weekend…

3. We are a Lifestyle Community Network based around like-minded people who take a holistic view of life focused on the following areas:

Synergy Chef – A resource for chefs, great food, recipes and information

Synergy Green – Bringing together Green Technologies, Environmental Activism and conscious consumers

Synergy Yoga – Bringing together yoga studios, teachers and enthusiasts

Synergy Healing Arts – Helping you approach your health holistically

Synergy Explorer – See new places, meet new people

Synergy Outreach – People reaching out to help others…

Synergy IT – New technologies for a new era – promote yourself and your business on-line

Synergy Creative Arts – Bringing together amazing artists in all fields, students, enthusiasts and collectors

We are not trying to be everything to everyone and therefore are not interested in competing with the Facebook’s of this world! If you are on Facebook we don’t expect you to stop using their network as it is very useful for re-connecting with friends and colleagues. We do feel however the future for many of us involves being members of various networks in order to connect with different people in different and new ways.

4. Unlike Facebook we do not own the content that you post / upload to Synergy. Each user retains ownership and all rights to their personal details, photos, articles, blogs, etc. and this information can be taken off the network at any time.

5. We fund the network through donations, additional services, like customization of company groups and related advertising, which is mainly advertising what people on the network are doing.

6. We do not offer silly games or the ability to poke each other nor do we encourage a popularity contest to see who has the most friends; what we are more interested in is facilitating the creation of meaningful connections and the possibility to collaborate with one another in ways that will enhance and supplement real world relationships.

7. We do not encourage you to spend all your time on the computer / Social Networks but feel it can be an advantageous tool to use the latest social media technologies to facilitate real world connections and support for your projects.

8. We are non-corporate ~ which means by participating in Synergy you are not supporting a corporate enterprise; however by being a part of Synergy you are supporting a grass roots effort, whose aim is to bring like-minded people around the world together to increase the wave of positive change.

Thanks for your support,

The Synergy Team