With the Global Friendship and Culture Center (GFCC) we wanted  to create a tool to help new members stay at their online communities,  even if they don’t speak English fluently and to promote the understanding between members from different cultures. This way we support friendsXcetra, the new community with the best leaders who want to shape a really global community with high numbers of members all over the world who are connected to a worldwide network of friends in a mood of understanding and accepting different cultures and beliefs.

Let’s face it: there are a lot of social sites in the net which assert to be international but if you have a look you see nothing than a big cemetery of failed attempts, all the bones of members who have tried to join a community without speaking the language of this site really fluently – they have logged in one, two, may be three times and then they have given up for it was to difficult to follow up in a strange language.

GFCC will enable members from all over the world to take part in many activities of the community in their native languages and become really active members by not only creating communication areas but also giving help and support in the accordant languages.

The Global Friendship and Culture Center also wants to better the knowledges of members about the living and the culture in another country hoping that a better understanding of members from different areas of the world may help to make this world a place of more peace and compassion. So the tasks of GFCC will be:

• to help members to inform about other countries, to contact members from other countries and to celebrate together to create real global friendship
  
• to help new members of a social site who don't have English as primary language to find help and support in their native language
  
• to built areas in which members who don't speak English fluently can communicate in their own languages, this may help them to become active in the different areas of their community, too
  
• to help members who haven't spoken a language for a long time to refresh their skills easily
  
• to help members in all language related issues or in starting to learn a new language

To do so for all the many languages and countries demands a huge quantity of helpers from all over the world.

In the moment we are looking for the former national leaders or chiefs of language areas. But whether you will become a National Coordinator or a Chief of Department for a certain language on the long run you will need your team of helpers. The purpose of this forum is to discuss ways to find new prospects for GFCC, to discuss the results of the attempts and to give candidates for leading positions a place to prove themselves.

Of course needed translations also will be posted in this forum.

You want to help? Everybody can be useful for our project: If you haven’t any language skills besides English you may give informations about your homeland or the country or culture you like. If you cannot do this you may help us posting or advertising or simply write a blog about the GFCC.
 
Nevertheless we would like to know something about you. So please tell us in a reply or in a Personal Message to me something about your language skills, your thoughts about GFCC, your personal plannings, your internet experience especially in social networking for example whether you are member or staff at other social sites.

After you have posted or messaged me we will response to you as soon as possible.

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I had joined a few friendship sites before I was invited to join FriendsXcetra Network (commonly called FX). To be clear, the reason I joined friendship sites was because I missed knowing people from around the world....or, even people outside of my home state. 

For many years, I lived in San Francisco.  One of the wonderful things about living there, was the ability to meet and grow close with different cultures and different nationalities. 

After 15 years, I moved back home to be closer with my parents.  Both were elderly and I had a 5 year old daughter, too.  This was before the birth of the internet.  I desperately missed my friends and moving back to a small, rural community was culture shock ! It seemed like everyone was "freeze dried" in the 1970's when it was 1990!  Any thing "different" was suspect.

My first experiences with friendship sites was fairly shocking.  It was more like a dating site, and things were presented to me for shock value only.  When i stumbled upon FX, I assumed it would be more of the same.  My reasoning for joining was i prayed somewhere would be a pure friendship site which would feed my soul and offer friendships from around the world.  Indeed, EVERYTHING presented at FX was the truth.  Administration would not tolerate pornography, scams or even SPAMMING.  I have been there since 7.11.07 and never for one day regretted joining.

You hear different groups advertise: we are family.  we will watch over you and protect you.  Well, FX really does this.  I have a cyber family: a virtual grandpaw (mine both died before I was born), a younger brother and sister (I am a single child) and even a daughter or two.  I watch them and their families and their pets like they were my family. I have experienced closeness and family and much laughter at FX.

I hope you will join us in this wonderful site.  Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask me.  I am here to make your journey a pleasant, fulfilling one....remember, I'm only a click away

If you would like to join FX, and I hope you do, please send me a message and I would be proud to send you a personal invitation.  We are beta and going live by the end of March.