When I was told of this new website called Facesity this morning, all that comes to mind is that this is an online visual directory. While our conventional telephone directory consists of names and telephone numbers, Facesity has our photos linking to our web address. I sort of remember a similar avatar wall but this one is based on the city where we live or work.

Using Facesity is very simple. Go to http://www.facesity.com and you can see a large map of the USA. So right now, Facesity is only limited to cities in the United States.

Click on a specific city on the map and a tag cloud will appear on the sidebar. Just select the city that you are interested in and a page with photos of members will appear. Clicking on a photo will lead you to website of the person.

If you would like to appear on Facesity, just click on Add Face and full instructions are there. What you do is just fill out a short form and pay US$1 via PayPal to Facesity and submit your photo via email. The payment of US$1 is for your photo to be displayed for the lifetime of the website. This process of submission could be made more seamless if we have the ability to upload our photo along with the form, instead of emailing it separately.

I think that if you are interested in placing your photo on Facesity, do it early and place the largest, most interesting photo of yourself to get better prominence on the page of you selected city. Price of US$1 is the same for all four photo sizes, anyway.