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This is Liz.
Liz is tired of social networks that are all about spending time online. Liz has a real life. Liz joins CityLightsGuide.com, the social network that connects her with people, places and events in the real world. Now look how happy she is!
friends
Liz can now find her real life friends on CityLightsGuide to connect and interact with. They share favorites, make plans, and exchange reviews. By browsing their profiles, Liz can find out what her friends think of the latest new bistro or who they use for their landscaping.
  favorites
Liz loves that little cafe around the corner. She adds it as a favorite. Now it appears on her profile for all her friends to see and discover As with all her favorites, she'll be kept up-to-date on all the cafe's latest news, events and specials with newsflashes that appear right in her profile.
newsflashes
A sale on sweaters at that designer boutique in SoHo? A new exhibit at her favorite gallery? Free cookies at the bakery down the block? With newsflashes, Liz is the first to know about events, specials or other hot news from all of her favorites. Delivered right to her profile.
  friendecommendations
Liz has had enough of travel guides and best of lists. They are overly generic and compiled by writers she doesn't know and who don't know her. When she wants to explore something new in her city, Liz uses CityLightsGuide to get the opinions and recommendations of the people she really trusts the most - her friends.
datebook
Tonight Liz is going out for drinks uptown. Before leaving, she quickly makes plans in her datebook, letting her friends know where she's going to be in case they want to meet up with her later.

Next week, her friend Danny is throwing a party at a chic new restaurant. Danny has created a datebook event, invited Liz and linked directly to the restaurant's profile. From there, Liz can easily add the party to her datebook, find a map, skim the restaurant's menu, watch a video preview and sneak-a-peek at who else is going.
- Ooh, looks like Alex will be there. The black dress it is.
 
blogs + reviews
That hair salon downtown is the bee's knees!
- at least that's what Liz writes in her latest review. An avid reader of user reviews herself, She enjoys sharing her thoughts + opinions with friends and people in her city, as well as directly with business owners. Just for fun, Liz subscribes to the blogs + reviews of a few particularly witty users and receives their new entries right in her profile.
  privacy
Liz's privacy online is VERY important to her. She uses many of the security and privacy controls built directly into CityLightsGuide to protect her thoughts and information. Liz decides who is allowed to view her profile, datebook, blogs + reviews and who isn't.

She chooses how she wants to use CityLightsGuide.com - as an active, public member of a larger community, or more intimately, as a network to share and interact with her close group of friends.
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