WAYN

WAYN.com is a one stop travel application that comes loaded with a host social networking features that allows its users you enrich their traveling experience. This application enables users to effectively locate and interact with people from all over the world. Incidentally WAYN has a large number of trips, travel photos and videos categorized by locations, for assisting the users to gain more of travel information, if they are planning a trip in near future. With WAYN, it is possible to meet and know people, living in your city or town. Many a times this application can be a great sport for the users to trace their friends and rebuild their contact with them. It also enables a person to keep a log of all his past, present and future travels. The application simplifies sharing experiences, making trip details, journals, and adding photos. This sharing process can further be facilitated through the usage of e-mail, SMS, chat boards and instant messenger. WAYN keeps a track of the contact details of all the people in the network from across the globe. In this way, a user can make new friends according to his/her present residence, and where does he/she wish to shift or visit. Hence, keeping in touch with friends is extremely easy, as users can stay informed about every movement and activity of their friends and family. Founded by Pete Ward and Jerome Touze, WAYN rests among the fastest growing websites in UK. It was started by an initial investment of over £40,000. The company was founded in 2002 in London, with the help of Mike Lines and Steve Pankhurst. The success of WAYN, over the last 2 years has gone beyond expectations, as it is present across many countries, and the membership has substantially grown to millions of users since last few years. The seamless manner in which WAYN allows people to interact with each other to share their traveling experience makes it standout from the rest. However one must note that even though WAYN has grown into a global service it quite period time, it not entirely free of drawbacks. The WAYN feature to ‘import contacts from an online address book’ has been criticized by a number of users, as they find it complicated to unsubscribe the invitation reminders from the website. Certain other issues that create problems for the users include the ‘message sensor’ feature of WAYN. The messages exchanged between the users to encourage communication are censored through the website. This troubles the users, as it becomes difficult for them to communicate through any other medium. With a blend of blue and white shades, the interface of WAYN presents a purposeful looks before its visitors. In addition, the use of shades of orange, green, and yellow, makes the interface vibrant. All the tabs and buttons are well placed and it goes a long way in imparting website a clean and attractive look. The advertisements displayed on the website are arranged on the bottom or the side borders of the website. The navigation tabs are designed in a manner to simplify steering across its different pages easy. Navigation process is fairly quick, and its web pages don’t take much time for uploading. Like other web-based social networking platforms, WAYN requires its users to create a profile, after following a user-friendly registration process. The sign up procedure necessitates the users to provide certain details like name, date of birth, gender, email id, password, nationality and hometown to become a part of this dynamic community. Users need not to feed in their financial details to register with the website. WAYN users need not to pay even a single penny to enjoy the services of the website. However, adverts are observed on the web pages and advertising is the main source of revenues for it. Owing to its remarkable features, WAYN is recommended to all who like exploring social networking services along with suitable travel-guiding features. However, to be a member of this network, a user must be at least 18 years of age.