General
The MayLife is an online directory that connects people through social
networks at schools.
It was launched to the public on Wednesday, February 4th, 2004.
Nope, just for fun.
Your school is not providing us with any information about you. All
information and photos are provided voluntarily by users.
You can adjust your privacy settings to allow only people within certain
divisions of certain schools to see it. You can also create different
privacy settings to control who can search for you, see your profile and
see your contact information.
When you join the MayLife, you are not just joining one large social
network. Instead, you are affiliating yourself with a specific branch
of the site that just includes other people from your school. When people
from other branch sites view your listing in search results, it will
automatically display which branch of the site you belong to.
Searching
Your social net is the group of all users whose privacy settings allow
you to view their information. To make things more interesting, we also
limit it to only users who have submitted pictures. When you click
on "social net", ten random users from your social net are displayed.
Since we pick people to display randomly, there is a chance that
the same person will be displayed on two pages. This problem will alleviate
itself as more people join.
You can either click the "Search all Fields" button on the
search page, or try the advanced search page.
Friends
No. When you reject someone, their friend request will leave your list of
friendships to confirm, but they will not be notified. They also will not
be able to send you another friend request for some amount of time, so to them,
it will just seem as if you haven't confirmed their friendship yet.
No, but all friend links are reciprocal, so you will be removed from their list as well.
The MayLife randomly chooses 6 of your friends from your school to display on your profile.
Features
We have about as much of an idea as you do. We thought it would be fun
to make a feature that had no real purpose and to see what happens
from there. So mess around with it, because you're not getting an
explanation from us.
Your feed is a forum for your friends to post comments or insights
about you. You can always remove comments you don't like from your own feed.
If you want your
feed turned off, you can do that on the My Privacy page.
Yes, you can delete any comment on your own feed.
In order to see the visualized social nets, you need to have the SVG plugin for
your browser. Installation takes about 15 seconds; you can get it
here.
If you are using Firefox, you may also need to follow the instructions at the
bottom of
this page.
Because we're too lazy to program it in a way that would be faster.
Hold down 'Alt' while dragging to scroll, or right-click to zoom. We apologize for the
difficulty of navigating the visualizations. We didn't make the SVG viewer; we
just use it to bring you pretty pictures.
Groups
If you are unable to find the group you are looking to join, you can start
a new one on the
My Groupspage. Click on "Create Group" near the bottom of this page.
My Privacy
A groupie is a person who is not a member of a group but is friends with many of
the members of the group. The cutoff for being a groupie depends on the
size of the group.
These groups are paid promotions by outside companies.
The sponsor controls the look and feel of the group, but does not have access personal information or profiles. The money from these
promotions, like the money from all our ads, goes towards
the MayLife's server and operational costs. Sponsored groups help
us keep the service free and fast.
Accounts
Yes -- you can request a name change and change your password on the
My Account page. For quality control purposes, we confirm
all name changes before they take place. Password changes take place immediately.
You need to enable cookies on your browser. In order to do
this in Internet Explorer, go to tools: options from the menu at the top.
Then click on the privacy tab and alter your privacy settings to allow
cookies. Then close and restart your browser and try logging in again.
If you're in college or you're an alum, you need to register with an email provided by your school.
This is how we make sure you're actually affiliated with that school.
If you have particularly long entries in parts of your profile, some browsers
(particularly Internet Explorer) have trouble saving the form. The MayLife team
recommends
Mozilla Firefox for best use.
MayLife Announcements / Advertising
MayLife Announcements allow students and local businesses to provide a variety of
relevant links to people at the schools on our network. These announcements only appear
at certain schools. And hey, they're definitely better than having to look at banner ads.
You can buy MayLife Announcements
here.
MayLife Announcements have their own FAQ, which you can see
here.
Other
Drats, I thought we had all of them. Each school has a custom site built for it before its students
can register. If we're missing your school, fill out
this form and
we'll add it.