MilitaryPlanet.com Opens Its Virtual Door for Veterans Day
Posted by gasusan2005 on 11/9/07 in The Internet
MilitaryPlanet.com Provides Current and Prior Military Personnel with Unique Search Features Unprecedented on Existing Social Networks, Asks Veterans: ‘Where Are You Now?’
As America celebrates Veterans Day by honoring its men and women who have served in the military, MilitaryPlanet.com invites all veterans to connect within its newly launched social networking community exclusively for Armed Forces personnel and veterans.
“This is our way of honoring our brothers and sisters in arms, from
active duty personnel currently deployed overseas to veterans of every
age,” said Ben Vanderneck, MilitaryPlanet.com Social Director. “Our big
question is: ‘Where Are You Now?’ We realize that there are many
differences in reconnecting veterans versus civilians, so we created this
site with search tools different from any other social network. Members of
the military community can search for former friends and colleagues in any
number of ways, including branch of service, current or former duty
stations, even past units.”
Vanderneck expects that with the millions of active duty personnel and
veterans throughout the world, these newly available search tools will
readily connect service members who otherwise would not have found each
other. Equally, he’s confident that MilitaryPlanet will offer active duty
members more flexibility in terms of use than other social networking sites
do. Ads will be minimal and never intrusive, and what members are allowed
to post and in what formats will fall within military guidelines.
“The Department of Defense has banned our service members overseas from many of the existing social networks due to incredible demands on
bandwidth, constant streaming video, oversaturated advertising throughout the sites and sometimes questionable content,” said Vanderneck. “Our site has a very streamlined overall design, which is critical for use by the online military community. MilitaryPlanet offers active duty personnel the ability to stay connected while deployed because we created the site with military installations in mind.”
Social networks are here to stay, and MilitaryPlanet.com represents a
revolutionary way for the military community to stay in touch — and
staying in touch with the people who served beside them is the number one thing many veterans wish they could do better.
Source: Orion International press release
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