Human Pets, www.humanpets.com Review

Good Points
Human Pets is loads of fun! Make friends online.

Ever wanted your friend as a pet? HumanPets.com is a new website that lets you do just that, as well as meet a lot of new fun people along the way.

Bad Points
No bad points for me.

General Comments
Human Pets also includes some very fun features that make the site especially fun for making friends online. The auction system can be used to exchange post cards, language lessons, drawings, and chat sessions for virtual points. Users earn these virtual points by spending time on the site. The new social network also features "herds," in which users can form similar interest groups and discuss the latest news. All herds contain discussion boards and chat rooms. The site also features its own classifieds section, where users can advertise their pets for sale, or post personals, and search for fun parties and events. Lastly, users also have their own mini-blogs, where they can update friends on their latest daily activities. In a sense, the site is an entire virtual town, inhabited by humans being animals. Built entirely in the last year, Human Pets uses modern Web 2.0/AJAX technology to add excitement and interactivity.

Although HumanPets.com just launched today, it has been in existence for about a year as a very popular Facebook application. The site gained over 1.5 million registered users, and has actually helped several couples get married. Many users mentioned it being their only reason to visit Facebook, spending several hours on the site per day. And so having outgrown the Facebook garden, the application has now grown into its own independent website.

Human Pets is part of a new form of websites known as social online gaming. The website experience is no longer a solitary one, but a very interactive one surrounded by friends and other users. As you're browsing the site, you'll encounter all sorts of people. And you can talk with them too with audio/video chat, leave them comments, and send them virtual gifts. Human Pets is also revolutionary in being a new form of a dating site, more like a game and targeted towards teens and young adults. This is a more natural way to date online, as users not only meet online but continue to bond as they interact with each other on the site in fun ways.

The theme is a little fun and wacky, but overall the site's novelness helps to spark conversations between strangers and to create bonds. In practice the site is entirely fun, adorable, and cute. And it is the newest and most exciting way for teens and young adults to hangout online.

If you're looking for a fun way to make friends, hangout, flirt, and have a little fun dating, then check out Human Pets. It's a mix between social networking and traditional dating sites, combined to create a brand new form of online community.