GirlsAskGuys
Encyclopedia
Girls Ask Guys.com is a Q&A website focusing on love, sex and relationships. The website offers its members tools to ask, answer questions, write articles, rate posts among others. The website was launched in June 2007 and has since been funded privately. Membership to GirlsAskGuys is free. Upon subscription and through site participation members earn points, which later can be redeemed for gift certificates or other exclusive features. Points also allow members to advance levels, which is an indicator of member activity.
GirlsAskGuys recently partnered with Matt Titus
& Tamsen Fadal
, Relationship Experts and Authors, to provide Video Answers to its members in exchange of the points they collected. Main site functionalities include asking, answering and commenting on questions, writing stories, and collaborating with other site members, as well as allowing its users to chat thru Meebo
IM sessions.
Since its inception, GirlsAskGuys has been featured on several outlets including Killerstartups, Coolsiteoftheday, Crunchbase, Mashable
, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch
. Currently with a reported 5+ million monthly pageviews, a Quantcast
ranking around 3500, it ranks among the largest Relationship Advice Communities on the Internet and received the Top Q&A website award in July 2010.
Overview
All content on GirlsAskGuys is moderated by site administrators along with select members to keep the content informative as well as entertaining. Offensive, explicit and other inappropriate content, as well as users are removed promptly; the also provides tools to report such content and users.GirlsAskGuys recently partnered with Matt Titus
Matt Titus
Matthew "Matt" Titus is a professional matchmaker in New York City. He owns and operates his own matchmaking service Matt's Little Black Book and the date/relationship coaching service The Love Consultants....
& Tamsen Fadal
Tamsen Fadal
Tamsen Fadal is a Lebanse American journalist, author and media personality who is currently the morning anchor on the WPIX Morning News in New York City. Previously, she hosted Totally Tamsen segments for WPIX in New York City. Fadal also appears regularly on the syndicated television show Better...
, Relationship Experts and Authors, to provide Video Answers to its members in exchange of the points they collected. Main site functionalities include asking, answering and commenting on questions, writing stories, and collaborating with other site members, as well as allowing its users to chat thru Meebo
Meebo
Meebo is a social platform connecting users with their friends across the web. It began in 2005 as a browser based instant messaging program which supported multiple IM services, including Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AIM, ICQ, MySpaceIM, Facebook Chat, Google Talk, CafeMom and...
IM sessions.
Since its inception, GirlsAskGuys has been featured on several outlets including Killerstartups, Coolsiteoftheday, Crunchbase, Mashable
Mashable
Mashable is an American news website and Internet news blog founded by Pete Cashmore. The website's primary focus is social media news, but also covers news and developments in mobile, entertainment, online video, business, web development, technology, memes and gadgets...
, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the Midwestern United States, and is available and read as far west as Kansas City, Missouri, as far south as...
. Currently with a reported 5+ million monthly pageviews, a Quantcast
Quantcast
Quantcast is a California based company that provides publishers and marketers with the ability to understand, deliver and reach their best audiences at a massive scale...
ranking around 3500, it ranks among the largest Relationship Advice Communities on the Internet and received the Top Q&A website award in July 2010.
Main Site Features
- Ask Question,
- Polls,
- Answer Question,
- Write Articles,
- Rate questions, answers, articles,
- Follow, befriend members,
- Meebo IM,
- Expert Videos,
- How-to Videos,
- Contests,
- Reality Check
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