I’ve been getting a few emails lately from people inviting me to join them on WAYN.com (Where Are You Now?). From what I can gather from the web site it’s a place for travellers to network. Have any of you guys used it? And is it worthwhile?
The reason I ask is that all the invitations I’ve received have been from young, attractive women. And that always makes me suspicious!
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Looks interesting and hadn’t heard of it. A good tip is to use http://www.sneakemail.com/ which allows you to have email addresses specific to sites you sign up with. If a specific source starts spamming you, you shitcan that address and never hear from them again.
i’ve signed up to it but have never really found it much use, potentially quite useful to some people, but the only good i got from signing up was that i stopped getting invitations to sign up all the time!
I’ve had stuff from them before – but it seemed to me to be more of a Friends Reunited-style website than anything to do with backpackers.
I’ve registerd, as the girl who sent me the invitation fitted the category you describe. I haven’t used it much, apart from getting back in touch with her. I do get the occasional mail from them, telling me I have ‘matches’, which could mean anything from someone from my hometown, to somebody’s been at one of the places I specified.
Unlike several other sites, I haven’t managed to get addicted to the site, or have any decent (travel)conversations with other travellers. It might have something to do with the fact that I didn’t sign up for the more extended, and paid, parts of their website. I do check once a month on average, to keep my account alive, but I prefer other communty-sites like 43 places, woophy, the LP forum and LiveJournal.
I just took the tour – well, steps one and two but that seemed to suffice – and it seems, for all its good intentions, to fly in the face of a couple of my favourite travel-related pleasures: the wildly unlikely bump into and microfridenship.
My best – and, for that matter, only – bump into story involves seeing a friend who I hadn’t seen in 9 months and thought was in Portugal at the top of Monas, the Indonesian national monument, in Jakarta.
I’ve had more microfriendships than I can count and always enjoy meeting someone who effectively becomes my best friend for a brief period; with one traveller it only lasted an hour while killing time at Gulliver’s pub in Bangkok but a fleeting friendship is better than none at all.
The WAYN site may well be a practical way of making contacts and finding your pals but it kind of destroys how wonderfully spontaneous travel can be.
Very good site actually – the concept is much more original than so many other online communities out there. The travel element makes it a lot more interesting I think
WAYN is a Great site – very useful for those that are into travel
WAYN ROCKS! Member there for a while – kina slow sometimes though – Bebo and Hi4 are quite good too – But WAYN is more travelly