MyCrusing.com

There are online communities and there are online communities. Recently i happened upon a surprisingly well thought out and implemented site. MyCrusing is a free all gay dating online community that offers everything that one could wish for in a social networking site and more. It's just the right mix of dating, entertainment and services. The site is multi-lingual, easy to navigate, resourceful and doesn't cost anything to join and use.

Navigation is the number one stumbling block for many sites. Face it: it doesn't matter how good the content is if you can't get to it easily and quickly. MyCrusing offers a very good user interface experience and will operate in the language of your choice! The site is available in eighteen languages, from the same URL. On the home page, the visitor is presented with a clean and easy to read tabbed interface that facilitates access to each of the main areas of the site. These are: Videos, Photos, Blogs, Clubs, Nightlife, Froums,gay Chat, and a special area called Adult (more about this one later). Below the main tabbed interface is a row of icons that link to member profile services. These being: My profile, Inbox, My Friends, My Hot List, My blog, Add photos, Add videos, and Add Location. There you have it, navigation perfected.

MyCrusing has a bit of something for everyone. It is a dating site offering a very well-designed internal member chat network and client. User profiles can include photos, blogs, forums and video. Members can use the internal chat network to contact one another with or without webcam. Once again, this is an internal chat network. Free of spam and - like everything else on MyCrusing - free of charge. There is also inter-member instant messaging and notifications - called "winks" that allow members to alert one another.

It's an all-male adult entertainment site with full-lenth feature films as well as user contributed content. And it's a service guide with nightlife listings for cities all over the world. All of this in the language of your choice and totally free of charge!

As i said, there are communities and there are communities. MyCrusing stands out as a fine example of how good the online social networking experience can be.