In this day and age, many a social networking site has sprung up. A few of the most popular are Twitter, Facebook and Flickr. There’s a new player in town though that brings us elements of all three with a touch of blog thrown in, wee-web.com.

     Wee-web is all about your creating a social site centered around your family, more specifically your children. Wee-web focuses on sharing about your children through pictures, stories, and periodic updates.  Your family and immediate friends though become the network.  This is a big change from other social networks were you join conversations in progress and have to acquire connections and find groups.

     Peter Kamali and Matt Meeker, both formerly of Meetup.com, decided to come up with a way of keeping family and friends updated about children.  Peter’s desire to keep his family updated about his young children really inspired this.

     Some of their other reasons they’ve shared:

• Maintaining a baby blog or online scrapbook takes a lot of time, and most people, between full time jobs and taking care of their young kids don’t have time to do justice to these comprehensive online projects.
• Cute little moments can be caught in a short sentence or two, so we encourage parents to update like that when it happens, more Twitter-style than long form blog or scrapbook postings.
• We also encourage parents to invite family and close friends upfront and let us take care of keeping them updated.  Each loved one controls how often they are updated, so they aren’t overwhelmed with too much information, but are still kept abreast of any important happenings. We save parents time from wondering about who to update when.  We also save them from all those phone calls and emails.