Manchester United Fans Forever-Author’s Choice

Another community for football fans and yet another one on ManUTD. Now why would you want to join this or rather you would be wondering why are we reviewing this community, right?

Well read on and you would know why.

Created on the 23 of September, 2006 by a ManUTD fan from West Bengal (India), this community grew from just a handful of members to strength of 1325 and still growing. The size of the community might not be much to boast about considering the size of other similar communities but it does hold water when we see the level of “meaningful” activity on the community. And I say “meaningful” to highlight the fact that this community is virtually spam free. The moderators are active enough to make sure that whatever goes on in the community is meaningful, sensible and healthy.

Now what exactly is the USP of this community? Is it that it is spam free??? No. This community has dedicated threads to deal with every possible event related to ManUTD. Be it the Pre-match and Post-match analysis, transfer gossip, medical ward & injuries or any kind of news on and off the field is made available on the community as and when it occurs!

In addition to this they have the “Predictor King” & “Predictor Prince” contest happening every week wherein the members have to predict the score line of a particular match day along with the scorers!

Man United Fans Forever aims at keeping its members updated with not only every news related to the Club but also with the news related to the world of Football! This is evident from the threads dealing with EURO 2008. On one of the thread a comprehensive analysis of every game played in the tournament is provided & in the other thread members can obtain the download links of all the goals scored in the tournament! The links are provided according to match days for smooth navigation for the members!

I would end this write up by quoting the moderator-Rahul Sinha.

“There are 2 kinds of people in this world:

i) For whom Manchester United is just another Club.

ii) For whom Manchester United is a passion, something which has been & will remain as an integral part of their life!

WE represent the 2^nd category of people!”

For all you ManUTD fans, this community if worth a visit. And trust me, seeing the level of meaningful talks that go in

here, it would be almost impossible for you to resist joining it if you are a true ManUTD fan.

Online dating, photo sharing, fun, entertainment, forum games and visiting profiles are some very common and usual activities on any social networking site, but some people think other way and so do Priyanka a married woman and a mother of a “dashing” boy, Priyanka thought to make a place for other daddies and mommies like her on orkut.com by creating a community dedicated to Indian parents, Indian Parenting is a strong community of more than 2k active parents discussing on every issues related to child upbringing, in this interview session we invited Priyanka to share more about her sweet and equally strong community and her personal life and thoughts.

Welcome Priyanka!

Thank you so much for inviting me

It’s a pleasure for us, Please throw some light on your family background and profession.

Thanks Zazo, I am staying in a Joint Family in Bangkok and mother of a cute boy. I am working as a computer programmer

Priyanka how an Indian Parenting came up? What is the objective and main purpose?

When I joined Orkut, I looked for a parenting community but could not find one.
So I decided to create Parenting community myself, i invited a lot of parents and started healthy discussions which created interest in many young parents and expected mothers. I may be the owner of Indian Parenting but this community is growing because of each and every parent there.

As a parent yourself how much Indian Parenting benefited you?

A lot, Indian Parenting Community has changed my views and I have learned a lot through others experience.

Priyanka why you chose orkut to made this community? As your orkut profile shows that you are professionally learned web designer so you can also make a website/community forum dedicated to Indian parents.

I have my own website named www.desithai.com and over there in discussion forum i have kept a forum separately for Indian Parenting..
but not much members post topics there as its a new website.
I have joined parenting groups and communities in facebook too.

As a working women how do you manage time between work and family and your activities on different social networking sites. How many hours/mins in a day you give to Indian Parenting?

I get up @ 5pm everyday and finish my work in morning, make my son ready for school @ 7.00 pm. I try reaching office early so I can give time to my website..
then in lunch time and free break I do orkutting and check my website
after I reach back home I try to give whole of my time to my son

Please tell us about your kid, how old he is and how naughty he is?

my son will be 5 this month, he is a very sensible child, he is naughty only sometimes not always

What are your personal thoughts on Indian parents? You know that child upbringing in India is very different(socially, culturally) from other progressed countries like U.S and U.K, do you believe that parents of those progressed countries are more advance and active in the upbringing of the child then an average middle class Indians? Please throw some light on this issue.

I believe in individual parent upbringing, it all depends on what culture and upbringing you want to give your child, parents living in India might get all latest toys and stuff from foreign county and give free and modern beliefs to child and on the other hand family living outside India might not allow children to lead a free and modern life. They are forced to follow the culture strictly so it all depends on individual parent or family upbringing.

What are your personal thoughts on an abortion? Do you think that mother has right to decide abort her baby or not? We saw the increasing number of abortion going on everyday since the social life of an average Indian is changed and people are more career and health conscious then before.

I hate the word abortion, if god has decided to send the child to you then who are you to kill the baby, abortion is another term of murder.
if the baby is not fully developed or organs are not developed then the parents can decide to keep or not to keep but getting aborted because u didn’t want the baby is bad.

Do you think that after the success of Indian Parenting community on orkut your aim is accomplished? or do you have any more future plans for it? and what do you think about orkut.com as a social networking site?

Orkut is a very good social networking site but few people misuse it so we all have to be careful. My next aim is to make www.desithai.com a success, its also a social networking site.

All the best for it Priyanka and thanks for giving all your precious time and effort to make this interview a beautiful write up