Moggycat's Guide to Social Networking For Cats
Fuzzbook
Kitties can create profiles with photos, lists of purrsonal interests,
contact information, and other purrsonal information allowing them to
communicate with their friends, family and other users, both publicly
and privately. They can leave messages on a "wall" and also create and
join interest groups and "like pages" and arrange social events.
However, forgetting to use privacy settings correctly can result in a
private meeting turning into a mass caterwaul.
Mogspot, Mogger
Kitties can keep online diaries, posting entries about what they are up
to and links to interesting things they've discovered. They can comment
on other users' diaries and other users can comment on theirs. Appeals
across a wide range of breeds, from the active kitties Mogging about
their day, to stay-at-home kitties catching up on gossip about their
neighbourhood. Journalistic kitties use it to publish exposes, such as
that comely Korat down the road getting in trouble because of her
not-so-secret trysts with a hunky Havana Brown!
LivePurrnal
It can be a diary like Mogspot/Mogger, but kitties can also say what
music they're currently listening to or what mood they are in and have
online conversations across diaries. Appeals especially to younger
members of less active breeds who prefer to catch up online rather than
in the flesh: Persians, Exotics and placid British Shorthairs.
MewSpace
This kitty network is mostly built around entertainment and musical
interests rather than diary-style entries. There tends to be a lot of
advertising too, so if your page lists "climbing scratching posts" as an
interest, your visitors are likely to see advertising for scratching
posts and cat trees.
MewTube
Creative kitties can post home videos - videos of cute kittens, confused
humans and the antics of the daft dog next door are always firm
favourites! On the downside, some kitties post mousie-snuff and
prey-torture movies on MewTube.
Flickitty
A place where creative kitties can share photos and short video clips
and comment on the photos and clips posted by their friends. A great
way for kitties to see the world through the eyes of far-flung friends
and for bird-watchers and insect-spotters to post their photos. If
you're posting lurid photos of your visit to the stud cat or an on-heat
female shamelessly flaunting herself for the local tomcats, make sure
you set the age, content and unneutered filters so that younger or
neutered Flickitty-ites can't view them!
Kitter
For kitties with short attention spans and a desire to broadcast their
every thought and action, this micro-mogging site appeals especially to
the hyper breeds such as Siamese, Oriental, Burmese and Bengal. Content
ranges from the banal "I've just seen a mouse" or "I've eaten some tuna"
to the informative "Human at 12 London Rd got travel baskets out, hide!"
or "Cat-killing dog seen in neighbourhood" or "anyone in NW9 know where
a stray will be welcome?".
Furrums
There are a plethora of special interest Furrums where kitties can visit
and join in conversations. Some are the internet equivalent of leaving
your scent-mark on a fence-post while others are places to discuss the
trials and tribulations of life. There are Furrums dedicated to a wide
range of interests such as food, kitten-raising, hiking, dog-teasing and
the best places to sleep. Mewling Lists are like Furrums, but are
email-based. YaMew-Groups and Mewsgroups are also similar to Furrums,
but have both a web front-end and an email front-end.