Is your cat's Web presence larger than yours? It could be
Offshoot of Facebook.com gives dog, cat owners online space to play with their pets
3:14 p.m. Thursday, August 23, 2007
Annebelle, the dog, is huge on the internet.
Her online profile lists her breed, mutt; hometown; Toronto, Canada; and favorite activities, running, jumping, eating steak and being friendly, unless you're the mailman.
Annebelle has 43 online friends, including Jasmine, Oreo, and a cat named Chelsea.
Annebelle's owner, Geoffrey Roche, an advertising executive, used the social networking site, Facebook.com, to create these two networks for pets called Dogbook and Catbook, which are networks Facebook members can use.
Just like humans, the animals can post pictures and send messages to one another. The word woof comes up a lot. Pets can find other animals in their neighborhood and and share videos.
In under three months, with no advertising, Catbook and Dogbook have attracted more than 600,000 members.
It took five minutes for ABC News Reporter Dan Harris to set up a profile for his two cats. Then, they were meeting cats all over the world.
Social networks sites, like Facebook, are allowing users to show much more these days. With this comes increased popularity. Facebook and MySpace are two of the top-ten most-visited sites on the internet.
"The more useful technology becomes, the more broadly it spans everything from the silly to the serious and from the personal to the very, very public," said Tech Culture Writer for Wired Magazine Xeni Jardin.
One of the founders of Facebook recently predicted that everyone on the planet would be on Facebook in five years -- make that everyone and their pets.
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