Gadrian Corporation Launches Social-Networking Website to Help with Weight Loss

San Francisco, CA, August 24, 2009 --(PR.com)-- According to Nielson Report social networks & blogs are the 4th most popular online activity, ahead of personal email. 66.8 percent of the global online population spends time at “Member Communities,” a category that includes both blogs and social networks. Australia is ranked 8th in terms of penetration of visits to social networks and blogs, this is represents 59% of Australia’s online audience. That makes social networking about two percent more popular than email, with one in every 11 minutes online globally spent on social network websites. According to a press release from the Methodist Hospital System, in Houston, Texas, people who use these sites to make friends and keep in touch can also use them to help stick to their diet plans.

Gadrian Corporation has launched www.hotideasfactory.com a social- networking website which it claims could help user’s loose weight using social networking. Users on the site connect with other users, sharing diets, commenting on weight loss programs, sharing exercise programs etc. hotideasfactory.com is targeted at a global internet audience, specifically at users who are looking to join an online community of like minded individuals committed solely to weight loss or healthy living. hotideasfactory.com is Australia’s first subscription based social-networking site targeting the weight loss and nutrition community.

To join, users subscribe by going to the hotideasfactory.com website, paying $US15 (about AUD$18.50) per month and gaining immediate access to the online community of members in a typical social networking environment. This member’s only section does not have any advertising and is equipped with all the standard social networking capabilities enabling them to: create their profile, build friends lists, upload and share videos and photos, write their own blog entries, create a mini-community of like minded members amongst other things. By networking with other like minded members, members draw on the global membership to help them through their weight loss journey.

Social networking sites are a good place for people to record their progress, find others in the same situation or join weight loss groups. Use of blogging, video and chat are useful in that they enable people to swap diet regimes, share their success stories and goals or just offer encouragement and support.

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