What is Faxo?
Faxo [făk`sō]
related words:
superset [′sü·pər‚set] (computer programming)
kitchen sink [ˈkɪtʃɪn sɪŋk] (everything but the kitchen sink)
everything that can be conceived of
usage:
"Yo dude I just signed up with Faxo last week and I already found a new job, car, and girlfriend. We're driving home from the Lada Gaga concert right now and I'm posting the meet and greet video to her fansite. I love you Faxoxooooh!"
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1. A website that combines every kind of website and has been enhanced with new and exciting features.
2. The quintessential companion for Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus tapping into your desire to create, compete, socialize, date, do business, or just have some fun.
related words:
superset [′sü·pər‚set] (computer programming)
A language that contains all features of a given language and has been enhanced to include new features.
kitchen sink [ˈkɪtʃɪn sɪŋk] (everything but the kitchen sink)
everything that can be conceived of
usage:
"Yo dude I just signed up with Faxo last week and I already found a new job, car, and girlfriend. We're driving home from the Lada Gaga concert right now and I'm posting the meet and greet video to her fansite. I love you Faxoxooooh!"
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Not another social network. Rather, all social networks, websites, and features.
Faxo is the world's first meta social network with millions of full featured highly integrated social networks and feature rich standard applications designed for simultaneous business, business professional, dating, and personal use.
On Faxo you retain your preferred social identity so Twitters, Facebooks and Google Plus socialize together as friends, in circles, and as fans. Faxo provides every social networking style, feature, media type, and privacy option in addition to providing feature rich standard applications like Classifieds Ads, Free Dating, Dictionary, Anonymous Chat, and Games.
On Faxo you retain your preferred social identity so Twitters, Facebooks and Google Plus socialize together as friends, in circles, and as fans. Faxo provides every social networking style, feature, media type, and privacy option in addition to providing feature rich standard applications like Classifieds Ads, Free Dating, Dictionary, Anonymous Chat, and Games.
Personal Social Networking
Organize your media and showcase the best of everything. Create and share anything. Socialize and compete. Create social networks in seconds. Post to any network online or from your mobile phone. There is a network for every interest and real world entity including 14,000 movies and TV shows, 30,000 schools, 220,000 cities complete with local businesses, and a personal and fan site for every Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Youtube and celebrity.
Social Networking for Business Professionals
Network with business professionals all over the world by creating a business profile that is separate from your personal network and activities. Drop your business card on any social network. Create business connections and groups, send mail, request and write recommendations, traverse networks of professionals, see who has viewed your profile, follow all activities of your business connections, link to your personal profile, post or find jobs, upload media from your phone, and search for business professionals. You have complete control of your privacy including who can send you mail, connect messages, and view your connections or activities feeds.
Social Networking for Businesses
You can establish your business on Faxo in less than a minute and immediately start promoting it to users for free. Use your business account from Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, or YouTube or set up a new page, group, local venue, or domain. Local venues integrate with cities and stream activities to cities and users nearby. Every option is a full featured social network on Faxo allowing interested users to become fans and follow your latest activities as well as post media to your network online or from a mobile phone. Gauge your social media success by tracking metrics on posted media and overall.
Dating
Create a dating profile which remains separate and discreet from your personal site. Upload media, browse local matches, send messages, ask to meet, see who viewed you, customize your profile, add a wallpaper, chat, group chat, participate in the dating forums and events, post any type of media directly to forums, search for matches.
Classified Ads
Post classified ads in any over 200,000 cities. Ads are visibile to all nearby cities/social networks. Ads stream to people following activities for that city. View and post responses to ads online or via anonymized emails, view statistics on ads including view counts, and view and judge the best ads in contests. Receive ad response notifications online and via email.
Walls & Timelines
Walls and timelines allow you to view any media type on any subject and arbitrary date from any social network on Faxo in both tiled and untiled formats. The main Faxo wall contains a superwall which gives you the ability to see all public posts from every social network.
Pinterest vs Tumblr vs Facebook Styling on the Fly
On Faxo you can have the best of every world by setting popular styles on the fly. View any wall in beautiful Pinterest masonry layout, or if you have the bandwidth Tumblr full post style complete with animated gifs, or the traditional information rich Facebook style with inline commenting and optional full post expansion. Faxo also provides Tiled style for a more even look. Finally all walls come with infinite scrolling.
Contests = Social News³
Walls and timelines are less than ideal when you just want to see what is hot or view and judge the best. On Faxo everything you post seamlessly becomes part of a contest giving you the power of a social news site on every social network. There are contests by media type, contests overall, contests over time frames, build your own contests, mobile contests, endless possibilities. Get credit for great content. Compete with others on each social network and overall. Promote your Google Plus, Facebook, or Twitter account or contribute anonymously. Every user has an overall ranking and a per network point score so you can always see who is the best on any network along with seeing what a particular user is best at by viewing their individual stats.
Mobile + Contests = Cool³
Post to any social network directly from your mobile phone. Post to status messages, mobile photos, and mobile videos or post directly into user created forums, image albums, and image contests. Use any public social network, personal networks with friends, or create groups to share your mobile data.
Local...Global
Post from your location anywhere in the world expressed at your desired level of zoom: venue, school, city, state, country, or the world. Post any media directly to these social networks from your phone. Visit a city and see the most popular venues from any category. View streams of posts from venues in that area. Read and write reviews on any venue.
Groups
Create full featured social networks for a select group of people with features such as group editable documents, and mobile uploads. Choose privacy settings on who can view posts, members, or the social network. For business professionals you can create groups for business connections only. Allow existing members to approve new members or only admins. Set your desired notifications.
Forums
Post HTML. Load media such as images, audio, and video directly into any forum. Every forum has complete online stats and a contest view where you can vote for the best forums. Compete and judge the best posts in any thread via a best forum post contest. Forums are available on every social network including dating.
Blogs
Use blogs to organize and showcase anything online for yourself privately or with others. Create blogs on the fly from any post, reblog posts into your existing blogs, blog any media type even blogs within blogs. Browse blogs and view each post on it's native social network. Every user has a best blog contest and every social network has a reference to blogs that contain posts that were reblogged from that network. Create HTML documents with support for a rich set of HTML tags and post preview. Customize your blogs with your own wallpaper and color schemes.
Questions & Answers
Ask questions, answer questions, and get answers on any social network and interest. Recieve notifications on answers via the website or via mail. Accept answers. Vote on questions and answers. Ask and answer questions anonymously. Every user has a per network point score which reveals their level of expertise as rated by their peers on that particular network.
Hashtags
Hashtags allow you to communicate an idea across social networks and see what is trending. Add hashtags to your posts and view the best and latest posts with any tag along with selecting by media type. Each user maintains stats on what they have tagged for easy reference.
Replies. Mentions.
You can reply or mention someone in a public post simply by adding the '@' symbol in front of a username or hitting reply on any post. Friends will receive notifications. A convenience menu item is added to every wall to allow you to see all posts you are mentioned in across all networks at anytime. Twitter users use their Twitter username, Facebook and Google Plus users create new unique usernames on Faxo with ".fb" and ".gp" extensions respectively.
Chat
Faxo provides every type of chat seamlessly blending one to one instant message, one to one full screen, dating instant message, dating fullscreen one to one, group, and anonymous conversations. Group chat is available on every social network and every personal network has a group chat where your chats appear separately to the group.
Search or Create
Quickly search or create anything from any wall including your home page without ever leaving the page. Upload any media from music to videos. Create social networks from groups to business pages to venues. Create dozens of different classified ad types. Search any media type, social network type, specific classified ad conditions, jobs, business professionals, groups, pages, venues, Twitters, Facebooks, and Google Plus. Sort posts by any online statistics from page views or votes to level of controversy.
Anonymous posts. Down Voting.
Anonymous posting is available on most public social networks except personal sites, fansites, pages, groups and venues. You can see all your posts including your anonymous ones with the last menu on most walls for convenience. Down voting is also available everywhere except on page owners, personal sites, classified ads, and dating. Despite the fact that you can post anonymously you must always adhere to the User Conduct and Content Policy.
Why do I need more social networks?
Faxo is not designed to replace your favorite social network but supplement and enhance your existing social networks while bringing them all together providing a superset of features from your favorite social networks and websites along with exclusive features and applications.
Why should I use Faxo?
Today's social networks provide long streams of posts, domain specific sites provide insight on certain interests, social news sites highlight what is popular everywhere, while dating and business networking sites are islands unto themselves. Faxo combines every type of site into one fully integrated ecosystem. Moreover, the personal networking is designed to promote quality content and recognize exceptional content creators. Walls and timelines allow you to view any media type on any subject and arbitrary date. Contests allow you to view the best of any kind of media on any network and overall over any timeframe. You can post external links, upload media, create blogs, and share your life story while competing and judging others for great content using an assortment of metrics. You have infinite ways of categorizing your content and reorganizing and stylizing any content in blogs. Everything is rated including comments and there is a caption and comment contest below every post. Compete to be the best or contribute anonymously.
What can Faxo do?
Faxo can store permanently anything you can create online as well as all your content from Facebook, Google Plus, or Twitter including long tweets, photos, videos, and music. Upload directly to the website or from your mobile phone and post simultaneously to your Facebook or Twitter. View the best content on any subject. Compete with others on public networks or with your friends on your own personal networks. Earn points and build your reputation on any interest and overall via our unique scoring system. Choose from an array of standard full featured applications like 100% free dating, games, group chat, slang dictionary, and classified ads. Below are some feature highlights.
Social Network Types
accessed from any network via goto:- Celebrity Fansites - useful for famous people and public figures not on Twitter, Facebook, or Google Plus.
- Cities - streams local venues, best venues, nearby cities, classified ads
- Colleges - graduating class years
- Companies
- Countries
- Facebooks
- Games
- Google Plus
- Groups - open, closed, secret, group email, group editable docs.
- High Schools - graduating class years
- Movies
- Pages - Company, Organization, Institution, Brand, Product, Artist, Band, Public Figure, Entertainment, Cause or Community.
- Personal Sites *
- Recipes
- Sports Teams
- States
- Stocks
- Topics
- Twitters
- TV Series
- Venues
- Video Games
- Websites
- YouTubes
Relationships
- Circles
- Friends
- Likes - fans / followers
Post / Upload
- Animated GIFS
- Audio
- Blogs - created on the fly via Share, browse items on native networks, custom styles
- Classified - Community
- Classified - For Sale
- Classified - Gigs
- Classified - Housing
- Classified - Jobs
- Classified - Personals
- Classified - Resumes
- Classified - Services
- Comments - optional HTML
- Definitions
- Documents - optional HTML, dozen categories
- Downloadable Files - max 25MB
- Embed Games
- Embed Video
- Events - mobile access codes
- Flash Games
- Forums - mobile access, direct upload of images, videos
- Image Albums - mobile access codes
- Image Contests - mobile access codes
- Links
- Local Discussion Forums
- Music Albums
- PDF Presentations
- Photo - max 10MB
- Polls
- Questions & Answers
- Quizzes
- Recipes
- Reviews
- SlideShare Presentations
- Songs
- Status Update
- Surveys
- Video - max 2GB
- Youtube Video
Post Interaction
- Star Rating - Expresses degree of approval, owner notification on >=3 stars
- Vote - Expresses approval or not, owner notification and improved contest standings on up vote
- Like - Expresses approval, also posts to your wall, owner is notified, public can view all likers
- Share to your Profile
- Share to your Wall
- Share to your Favorites
- Share to any of your Blogs - create a Blog, Reblog
- Reply / @ Mentions
- Views
- Comments
Awards
- Best Users - per Social Network & Overall
- Best Posts Today/Yesterday/Week/Month/All-Time
- Best per Social Network
- Best all Social Networks
- Best of Every Media Type
- Best Comments / Caption Contest
Links
- Aggregate Links from the Web - automagically shows a snippet when pasting in a Link
- Faxo Share Button for your Webpage
- Short Links
- Descriptive Links
- Links by domain
Reputation
- Points Per User Per Social Network
- Points Per User all Networks
- Fans Per User
Blogging
- HTML/Non HTML
- Image (up to 4)
- Micro-Blogging
- Reblogging
- Long Tweets - post to Twitter>140 characters
Profiles
- Personalized Url
- Custom Background
Post Privacy
- Public
- My Friends
- Friends of Friends
- Circles
- Extended Circles
- Only Me
- Custom
Privacy Settings
- Post Privacy
- Who can Message Me
- Who can See My Friends
- Who can Search for Me
- Who can Send me a Friend Request
- Who can See Posts from Other People on My Personal Site
- Personal Mailbox
- Dating Mailbox
- Threaded Messages by User
- Sent Messages
- New Message Count
Identity
- Login as Facebook
- Login as Twitter
Posting
- Anonymous on public networks
- Edit
- Backdate on personal networks
- Disable Comments on personal networks
Messaging
- Group Chat
- Group Chat with Me - Your chats on one side - Friends or public on the other side
- One to One Chat Instant Messaging Popup - with friends and for dating
- One to One Chat Private Room - with friends or non-friends
- Anonymous Chat
- Facebook Chat - defaults to disabled for personal networks
- Friends Online
- Local Chat - any city, nearby cities
- Dating Group Chat
- Dating Local Chat - any city, nearby cities
- Dating One to One - Private Room
- Sending HTML/Images
Walls
- Timeline - on every social net, choose arbitrary day, all or by media type, back date on personal sites
- By Media Type
- Wall to Wall
- Per Network
- By Social Network Type
- All Walls on Faxo
- By All Social Networks I Like
- By Social Networks I Like By Type
- Verified Twitters Stream
- View any Media Inline Full Size
- View Comments Inline
- Tile View
Socialize
- Check-ins
- Pokes - friends, friends of friends
- Mentions - all users, just friends
- Hashtags
- Tags
- User Tagging
Applications
- Classified Ads - 220,000 cities, global and nearby city streams by ad type, anonymized emails
- Slang Dictionary
- Dating - video personals, local group chat
- Anonymous Chat
- Games
Search
- Web
- Faxo
- Dating
- Any Media Type
- Any Social Network
- Trending
- Tags
Security
- Privacy Settings
- Block Users
- Report Users
- Report Abuse
Notifications
- Mention
- Private Message
- Private Dating Message
- New Fan
- New Fan of your Fansite
- Comment on your Post
- Like your Post
- Voted Up your Post
- Rated your Post
- Tagged You
- Friend Post on your Wall
- Post to your Fansite
- Answer to your Question
- Your Answer was Accepted
- Earned a Point on your Post
- Media Completed Processing
- Response to your Classified Ad
- Friend Request
- Event Invitation
- Request to Join your Group
- Poke
- Group Chat Invite
- You are Added to Group
- Accepted to Group
- User Accepts your Friendship
- Friend Suggestion
- Post on My Group Chat
Mobile
- Status
- Photo
- Video
Local
- Weather
- Posts from Cities near me
- Posts from My City
- Posts from Venues near me
- Posts from Venues in my city
What's up with the ads?
Advertising allows us to offer a vast amount of features, many of which appear on paid sites, for free.
Coming Soon
Auctions, group deals, shopping, installable & mobile apps, networked games, live streaming video, autoupdating walls, and revenue sharing with direct payment for services (make money online).