What is Plurk?

Plurk is a very basic social networking site for those who just want to network. There%u2019s no advertising and very few fancy tools or features on plurk.com. It%u2019s just for people who want to blog and communicate.

Plurk seems designed for those who don%u2019t want to have go through a dozen features to post something online. It%u2019s also set up for those who want to chronicle their life online or just keep some friends and family posted on events.

You won%u2019t get bombarded with glossy ads for the latest summer movies at plurk.com. Instead you see real stuff posted by real people which is very refreshing. Visitors to www.plurk.com won%u2019t feel as if they are only people online and that everything on the internet is being posted by software.

A plurk blog is very basic but it is all average people need to communicate. Some of the postings are pretty raw but they look like the kind of stuff you used to see online. The posts we got before the big corporations took over the net.

Plurk is definitely not for everybody techies, pop culture junkies and newshounds will quickly get bored at it. For those who just want to socialize it looks like a lot of fun though. Plurks blogs seem to provide real communication with real people.

For those with time to kill and a smart phone there%u2019s also plurk twitter. A lot of the posters seem to be teens but Plurk is definitely fun. If you just want to get back to the basics of social networking try Plurk, it is fun and it%u2019s free.