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Chat: The site's chatroom,  must be logged in to use.
Currently in Chat: A list of everyone currently inside the chatroom.

Profiles: A list of all the profiles from oldest to newest, with Admins on top.
    My Profile: View your own profile.
    Edit Profile: Edits your profile for viewing. If you don't see the 'Bio' Editor please send us what browser your using via the Support Form. You can also upload a picture for your profile if you would like. It can be JPG, GIF, PNG, or BMP. and can't be larger then 80kb.
    Contact List: This is really under development... But it's like a advanced customizable friends list.

Friends: There are three levels to the friend system. This allows you to give more personal info to select people, and maintain a up to date address book.
    Acquaintances: Allows posting of comments on your page, as well as shows your last name
    Buddies: Shows Birthday Year
    Friends: Gives access to your Email Address.
    How to add a friend : On their profile page you will see a link that says Friends: Click on this link. Inside the page on the top you will see all the possible friend types, simply click on the requested friend type, and wait for their reply.

Support: This is where anyone and everyone can tell me issues, bugs, suggestions, and such. For now it's the only way to get a hold of me for troubleshooting.

Blogs: Lists all the Blogs from newest to oldest.
    My Blogs: A control pannel for your blogs, lets you remove them and edit them later.
    New Blog: Write a new blog.     

Games:
    Pick a Number: You make a bet of up to $5,000, choose a number set, then make a guess. If you win you get the odds awarded to you.
For example if you pick 10:1 you will be guessing a number between 1 and 10, if you get it right, you will win 10 times your bet.
    Black Jack: Get as close to 21 without going over.
    Video Poker : Get the best hand you can to win cash.
    Bank: A place to save your cash, or send cash to other people.
    Admin's Boxes : The Admin has hidden a bunch of cash in various boxes. You can pick a box out everyday to see what's in it.
    Money Tower : Climb the tower, the higher you get the more cash you make.

About Profiles:
    Username: This is your login name, and how the server knows who you are. This can't be changed. No special symbols or spaces, letters and number ONLY.
    Display name: This is what is shown to everyone else, including inside the chat. you can have spaces and special characters here. You can change this at will.
    Name: User's actual name, it is shown to others.
    Email: contact email in case you lose password, used for activation, and for contact with the support form.
    Gender: male, female, or unknown
    Lockdown: If you are worried that someone is trying to log on as you, you can lockdown your account. This means that if there are 5 unsuccessful logins then the system will prevent all further attempts (even if it's the correct username and password) until the account owner re-activates their account (note: this does not disactivate the account, just prevents logging in.) If your not sure, just leave this unchecked.
    Bio: about yourself, others will see it.
    Img: If you have an image you wish to share on your profile page, you may link to the image from where ever it resides, we recommend using photobucket as a place to store your images.

About Blogs:
Everyone can write their own blogs. No limit to size of blog, or number of blogs per user.

About Contact Lists:
It's for quick viewing of select members. It's like a customizable friends list.
You make groups (such as "friends" or "co-workers") then you go to the profile of the person you want to add. above their photo is a link to add them to one of your contact lists.
And then you can get a quick view of their info from the contact list page.

About Badges:
There are many badges (note: actually there are a total of 7 right now...but more will be created soon. Admins and moderators can post new badges.)
There are also many different ways to get badges.
Some can be from the badge store (note: later if you have a certain badge then a certain feature is unlocked for you.)
Others require something else, such as finding a hidden link, or doing something special

About cash: There is NO actual monetary value. Not to be used for any purpose other than amusement.
Everyone starts with $300, if you run out, visit the bank and for the time being they will give you $300
You use cash to play games and get more cash, you can use cash to buy badges and more in the future.

About Chat:
You have to be registered to use the chat.
You can set your icon to any of the smiles
You can also change your theme inside of the chat
At the bottom left is your status, which you can set to let others know of your current state of mind.
At the top is a drop down of all the chatrooms, you just select a different room to move there.
You can turn off sounds and such from the Option button on the bottom left.