WannaNetwork Will Be Shutting Down The Social Network On September 30, 2009.

Notice Date: Sep 16, 2009

WannaNetwork.com will be shutting down the social networking component of our web site on September 30, 2009, which will include the following:

1. Personal Profiles
2. Personal Blogs
3. Groups

If you wish to save the content on your personal blogs, you can click on the export function under the tools menu in your blog’s dashboard.

We will be keeping one simple multi-contributor blog in order to allow some of our active and loyal members to participate.

If you would like your content to be considered for the new multi-contributor platform, please email (tony@wannanetwork.com) with your user name and blog (s) name.

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Why is WannaNetwork.com taking this drastic new direction?

Unfortunately, our vision to provide a free high traffic real estate social networking solution for industry professionals has attracted the wrong crowd.

Basically, it is a full-time job managing and developing a multi-user blogging platform that is constantly plagued with vicious spammers.

While we have done our absolute best over the past three years to provide our members with a powerful online presence for free, we have ultimately failed at integrating a viable revenue model that will support the evolving demands industry professionals need with online technology.

After weighing the options of either charging for blogs, selling more advertising, or exploring affiliate marketing relationships, we’ve decided to simplify things by moving our few real members to one multi-contributor blogging platform.

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Zillow, Trulia and hundreds more have literally dominated the social networking space in the past two years.

And, good for them.  They’ve got hundreds of millions in venture capital to continue pushing forward in this online social networking innovation race.  We are sincerely looking forward to their success because our personal real estate and mortgage businesses are depending on it.

However, for this humble small WannaNetwork.com crew, we’ve found our individual places and passions with social media through the process of this project.

We love blogging, social media, networking and building equity in our own local online presence.

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Going Forward…  What’s Next?

To our loyal members and friends that have helped build this site over the years – Thank you so much for the support and patience.  We’re still committed to your success online, and we’ll work with you to make sure you continue to benefit from this site.

Please send an email to tony@wannanetwork.com if you would like to have us move your content over to the main blog and put you in the blogroll.

To the spammers that feel it is necessary to send hate emails every time the site has a setback – You have until September 30, 2009 to copy your content or export it from your blogs.

This will be the final notice.

Thank you.