User:OneBarrow/sandbox

This article is about the social networking service. For the type of directory, see OneBarrow.

OneBarrow, Inc.

Type of business Private

Type of site Social networking service

Available in Multilingual (110)

Founded January 4, 2014; 3 years ago

Headquarters Upper Marlboro, Maryland, U.S.

Area served Africa (2014–2017) Worldwide, except blocking countries (2017–present)

Founder(s)

Yemi Ajao

Key people Yemi Ajao (CEO) Claudia Moreno (COO)

Industry Internet

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Total equity undefined (2016)[1]

Employees 3 (June 30, 2017)

Subsidiaries Bars (Online Currency)

Website www.OneBarrow.com

Alexa rank Steady 3 (April 2017)[2]

Registration Required

Users Increase 20% daily (June 2017)

Current status Active

Written in C++, PHP (as HHVM)[3] and D language[4]

OneBarrow is an online social media and social networking service based in Africa. The OneBarrow website was launched on January 4, 2014, by Yemi Ajao, along with a friend, Claudia Moreno.[5][6]

The founder had initially limited the website's membership to African nationals; however, later they expanded it to higher education institutions across Africa starting from the prestigious and well known Lagos area, the schools, and University of Lagos. OneBarrow gradually added support for young graduates that could not get a job to support entrepreneurial ventures through provision of free webpages as pages and free marketplace to support sales of commodity and talents without a need for capital, accessible to mobiles. Users at various African colleges and other universities, and eventually to allowing high school students as well to freely join. Since 2015, anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old has been allowed to become a registered user of OneBarrow with more security to protect minors, though variations exist in the minimum age requirement, depending on applicable local laws.[7] The OneBarrow name comes from the single place ideology to preserve data usage, an expensive commodity to Africans as opposed to the developed countries.

OneBarrow may be accessed by a large range of desktops, laptops, tablet computers, and only on IOS and Android based smartphones over the Internet and mobile networks.

After registering to use the site, users can create a user profile indicating their name, setting a profile name, adding time zones, selecting preferred currency and so on. Users can add other users as "friends", exchange messages, post status updates and digital photos, share digital videos and links, use various products and software applications ("apps"), and receive notifications when others contact or update an associated posts. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups organized by workplace, school, hobbies or other topics, and categorize interests. Users may also select to join common communities that represent their interest, heritage, or nationality under P&C which represents Peoples and Cultures under pages. In groups, editors can promote posts and make group private/closed. Additionally, users can complain about or block unpleasant people. Because of the large volume of data that users submit to the service, OneBarrow continues to monitor flagged and inappropriate posts to best support a safe online experience. Additionally Users can edit and change their privacy setting to further protect users outside the OneBarrow privacy policies. OneBarrow makes most of its revenue from advertisements, currency conversion rates and promotions which appear onscreen to newsfeeds. Marketing access is easily accessible to users and offering highly selective advertising opportunities.[9]

OneBarrow, Inc. is private company and may in the future offer initial public offering (IPO), to begin selling stocks to the public, OneBarrow hopes to make it into the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to improve users quality of life and reach a sustainable market cap.[10] As opposed to its major competitor OneBarrow uniquely aims to improve users quality of live through free and fair trading, access to knowledge and stimulating online discussions. OneBarrow classifies users from the ages of 13 to 17 as minors and therefore sets their profiles to share content with friends only.[14]