WishDone.com: Social Networking Makes Your Dreams Come True

Imagine a social network that can help you become the person you've always wanted to be; a social network that can bring people together in a supportive environment and help them outline their goals and wishes and then work cooperatively to help them get there. If you're thinking it's too good to be true, you might be right. If you're thinking all of that is a steaming pile, you might be right too. Enter WishDone, a new site that claims to help make your dreams come true through the power of social networking--if it ever launches.





If you can get past the hideous Comic Sans typeface all over the front page, WishDone's message is clear: The service will "unlock the true power of the global Internet community" to make your wishes come true. If that sounds like Web 2.0-speak, you smelled the same thing I did. WishDone doesn't stop there, though--the service claims to be a social networking service with a real purpose. The statement on the front page claims that using WishDone will let you champion global causes and create media channels as well as stay in touch with family and friends. All this, and the service hasn't even launched yet.

WishDone members will create two profiles, one "real" and one "wish." The real profile is the one that reflects who you are now, with your current interests, professions, hobbies, and other personal information. The wish profile is who you want to be, with the languages and skills you want to learn, the places you want to go, and the hobbies you want to pick up. By creating the wish profile, you can see where you are now and make progress towards where you want to be and who you want to be.



The idea itself is sound; knowing where you are and where you want to be provides some clarity when it comes to self-improvement. The service claims to be in private beta, and members can sign up to be notified when the service goes live. At the same time though, I can't help but think that the entire thing is a joke. The site design is terrible, all of the text that aren't advertisements is in Comic Sans, and all of the links point back to the home page. Even if the service does eventually launch, it doesn't look like it'll be very attractive.

Additionally, the service makes no claims about how it will achieve its lofty goals. If you believe the front page, you'll "express yourself easily" through the "advanced blogging platform," and enter contests to win things that WishDone apparently knows you've always wanted.

The service claims to be mobile and accessible from any cell phone or PDA. Unfortunately there are no details about any of this, no About page to let you know who's behind the idea, and no Contact Us page to let you get in touch with the developers. So if the site ever does launch, it's dubious whether it'll be able to back up its big talk.