User talk:VinnyC82

--Destiny - Unmei - Concept in the makeing...

I believe to begin to work towards the understanding of what concept of Destiny is and what it will become. This process begins with a simple story: 5 years ago, I began using Yahoo! messenger service. I didn't have many friends on the service so I looked into chat rooms for the first time. I first started going into chat rooms that were local or national and started talking to other people in the area or in the country and made a few friends that way. I soon discovered international chat rooms and was fascinated with the opportunity that I could meet people from around the world from the convience of my room! Really for me it was a unique concept - the ability to initiate a friendship with somebody I've never seen or met before, and even more, somebody who is half-way around the world. I made a key friendship with a young man named Hamed Hatami(Persian) who introduced me to a web ring called World Wide Friends Cafe (WWF Cafe) which was managed by Shimizu Hiroyuki. Through this site I met another good friend, Lan Nhi Nguyen. So in the span of a few weeks I made three friendships in Hamed, Shimizu, and Lannhi. I have remained good friends with these three individuals who live in Iran, Japan (NZ now), and Vietnam respectively.

After 2-3 years of chatting with my new friends I had come to know their likes and dislikes well, interesting things about their culture, and a real feel of their personalities. I felt so good to have made quality friendships with these people but I wanted more - I wanted to meet this people in person! To this day I have not had the opportunity yet to meet them all but I will soon accomplish this feat....

So what does this story have to do with Destiny? The drive for something more than just a purely virtual friendship. The thought of actually meeting that friend overseas in their environment and experiencing life from another prospective if only for a few days. This is the driving force behind destiny.

Rightly said - the Concept of Destiny/Unmei began as such:

Communication. It is arguably the most vital tool to uniting families, friends, cultures, and civilization itself. The birth and fast-paced development of the internet has completely revolutionized the way man communicates in this day and age.

As technology improved, global communication became much more efficient and readily available to the consumer. These new methods of communication spawned several different services that have arisen to meet the growing social demands of the conusmer.

This ability to communicate with people around the world is the new path that makes way for Unmei. Through the growth of the afore mentioned services, as well as the development of social networking services (SNS), the next level of communication is here. People are making new friends around the world. These relationships bring not only friends together but also cultures. One of the greatest travesties of these virtual services is that they are just that – virtual. Friendships are developed and often fade as one gets older simply because of the fact that they will never have the opportunity to meet. Given the resources, it is not acceptable that dreams are left unfulfilled and life changing events are ignored simply because of the physical barriers that exist.

This is the setting that brings Unmei to center stage. It is the destiny of the world to come together, to better understand one another, and to embrace true friendship. It is time to develop new networks to help facilite global growth that is effective and meaningful. Now is the time for Unmei…

--VinnyC82 02:40, 18 August 2007 (UTC)Vincent A. Cresce (08/17/07)

Conceptual Ideas for the Functions of the website
A feature that is often lacking with most SNS are real originality and moreover,

The integration of real time feautures

Destiny should be distinguishable from other SNS sites - it needs to satisfy a need that

other existing SNS websites either do not/cannot solve or cannot satisfy to the desire of

the user

The key will be in the functionality of the website. The website should start small with a few

unique functions that can be used to attract people to the website. The uniqueness of the

functions should also be suffice to retain the visitors who come to the website.

Here is and will be the ongoing list of the proposed functions of the website. They will be divided

into two parts: Realtime functions and functions that will facilitate and encourage global friendship.

Realtime Functions

-Online Status of Friends

-Message Notifcations

-Updated Blog Notifications

-Comment Updates

-Group Chatting Forum

-Language Translation

Other Website Functions

-Cultural Exchange Forum

-Text message updates

-Blogging

-Event planning

-Travel Blog/Postings/Exchange —The preceding unsigned comment was added by VinnyC82 (talk • contribs).