Gafal is a social media platform that blends the power of social networking with a quick and easy media cataloging interface.
Users at Gafal catalog and create personal libraries of their books, DVDs, video games and comics.
Communities at Gafal represent physical entities like schools, colleges, businesses and neighborhoods.
When users join a community their libraries merge to create community library.
Members of a community can search, borrow, sell, buy and exchange items with other members of the community.
Why You Should Join Gafal
Gafal automates and facilitates the age old process of lending, borrowing
and bartering of legitimate physical media. For example you may have a good
collection of books and DVDs and you lend them to your friends on
request. But more often than not you forget whom you lent a particular
book to and then it becomes a pain to get it back. You don't like losing
books from your collection but you do. On the other hand you don't and can't buy every DVD you
watch or every book you read. Sometimes you do need to borrow them from your
friends. Gafal.com solves both your problems.
- It provides an easy way to create a catalog of your media items.
- It provides mechanism for keeping track of your loans and borrowings.
- It provides a way to search for a desired item in your friends and acquaintances' libraries.
- It allows to search for items in other people's catalog whom you don't know but have a relation like co-worker, classmate or neighbor.
Now let's see the power of social networking aspect of Gafal. Say you work for ABC
Corp which has some 200 employees on its payrolls and they are also
members of ABC Corp community on Gafal. Say each member has on average
20 comics, 30 books, 25 DVDs and 15 video games in his catalog.
As members of ABC corp community their libraries combine
to form community library of ABC corp. And
as a member of ABC corp community you now have access to 4000
comics, 6000 books, 5000 DVDs and 3000 video games available to you for
borrowing, exchange or purchasing. This doesn't stop here,
you could also be a member of the community
for your locality, your kids would be members of the communities for their
respective schools/colleges. Combine them all and see how many
products you have access to without spending a dime on subscriptions.
We hope that you will find our services useful and enjoyable.
-- Gafal Team