Greek9.com - Greek Social Website

Are you a member of a black Greek-letter organization? Then this site is just for you. Forget MySpace, Xanga, Facebook, or any other social networking site. Greek9 is an online social network for members of the nine NPHC black Greek-letter organizations. Not familiar with NPHC? NPHC stands for the National Pan-Hellenic Council; it is an umbrella organization for nine historically black, international Greek lettered fraternities and sororities. Each of the nine NPHC organizations evolved during a period when African-Americans were being denied essential rights and privileges afforded other college students. Greek9 is a place for black greeks to communicate and interact with each other. It offers discussion forums, picture uploading, private messaging, personal profiles, videos, games, and news feeds. It offers users the flexibility to post and share their own content and connect with each other through a "friend" system. The friend system automatically identifies connections between users—for example, if two fraternity brothers were in the same chapter, the system would recognize them as "chapter brothers" and this connection would be immediately apparent to all other users. Greek9 allows signups from undergraduate and graduate/alumni members, as well as non-greeks and other greek organizations.

“What we offer: UNLIMITED personal messages, profile pages w/ UNLIMITED photos, search for and add friends based on Line, Chapter, Organization, etc., message board, images, videos, blogs, etc., user-reputation feature. We don’t give you stuff for free then start charging for it all willy-nilly.”

Greek9 seems an attractive proposal for black greeks who are looking for a website built with them in mind, something different from the forums or generic social networks to which they're accustomed. Greek9 not only opens possibilities for black greeks but for advertisers too. The site attracts a somewhat wealthy, teen and young adult, college educated, mostly African American audience.

Will Greek9 become a central hub for the black greek community? How they will be able to compete with popular social networks like Facebook, MySpace, and Friendster?