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RolePages.com is a website that is being launched with an ambitious goal, to change the nature of storytelling forever. Starting off with a core membership of just a few hundred people, they have created a community which merges the art of writing a novel, with the tools of social networking, to create an immersive and totally unique fictional experience, which stretches across a variety of Media.

RolePages.com was launched as a fairly simple idea, to create a social networking community, like myspace, facebook, or linkedin, except with one major difference. On this website, you would be encouraged to sign up as someone other than yourself, a fictional character that you create.

The process was similar to other popular social communities. Users create a profile, upload a picture, fill out some information, and fabricate a life around whatever character they have imagined.

Then the site itself consists of a variety of ways to create stories and interact with other members stories. There are basic elements such as a chat room, a forum, and a fictional blogging system, that makes up the basic skeleton of the communities features. These applications are enhanced through the use of worlds, a group feature that allows members to create a mini site based around a storyline of their choosing.

Other features such as profile walls and individual activity feeds give members the ability to keep up with one another’s storylines, and to interact with them on a regular basis. This allows stories to take on an endless number of characters, as new members shift roles in order to further plot.

The plot can be further enhanced through the submission of videos, music, and pictures, which allow members to flesh out their plot lines across a variety of media.

The site launched with a small core membership of writers, which is already starting to balloon, and initial activity ahs resulted in the creation of dozens of storylines across all of the different media outlets on the site.