About
Welcome to the Smoke Ring!
The bar at the top of the page will link you to all the key pages of the site. You can read the descriptions below to see the many functions these pages have to offer, and click the underlined links to try them out for yourself.
Home
Start here. Catch up on the latest activity by reading the news feed, and get an overview of the site.
My Profile
Change your username, tell us your favorite bands and movies, share your personality type, upload a new profile picture, read your wall, see your friends. Update your status here and on Facebook with one easy click. Unless you have manually uploaded your own, your profile picture will synchronize with Facebook.
Profile Questions
Use these links to fill out your profile questions:
Browse through members, find people you know, or search for new people by sex, nationality, personality type and more.
Groups are based on the people you know in person, a circle of friends, whether you're from the same school, town, workplace or whatever. Each group has its own forum for discussion on group and local matters, and can plan their own events to meet up in person, online, or just to share info on local events.
Forum
Discuss anything and everything here. Get to know the community. Share your thoughts, concerns, ideas and questions. Learn new things. Share and practice your writing skills. Plan collaborative projects. The possibilities are endless...
Video Chat
See fellow members face to face. Chat to plan an event, work on a project, catch up with old buddies, meet new people, or just to kill time.
Upload and share all forms of arts and media here. You can comment and "like" submissions on these pages. Keep in mind we can only store 100 MB of data on the site, so any chance you have to link your photo, video and music uploads from a url instead of a direct file will make more room.
Don't forget the toolbar at the bottom right. With it you can
The bar at the top of the page will link you to all the key pages of the site. You can read the descriptions below to see the many functions these pages have to offer, and click the underlined links to try them out for yourself.
Home
Start here. Catch up on the latest activity by reading the news feed, and get an overview of the site.
My Profile
Change your username, tell us your favorite bands and movies, share your personality type, upload a new profile picture, read your wall, see your friends. Update your status here and on Facebook with one easy click. Unless you have manually uploaded your own, your profile picture will synchronize with Facebook.
Profile Questions
Use these links to fill out your profile questions:
- MBTI Personality Type (ie "INTP - The Architect", "INTP - The Thinker" etc.)
- Enneagram Type (ie "1 - The Reformer", "1w2 - The Advocate" etc.)
- Political Orientation (ie "Left Libertarian", "Right Moderate" etc.)
Browse through members, find people you know, or search for new people by sex, nationality, personality type and more.
- Invite - Have some friends who would like to join? Send them invites via Facebook.
Groups are based on the people you know in person, a circle of friends, whether you're from the same school, town, workplace or whatever. Each group has its own forum for discussion on group and local matters, and can plan their own events to meet up in person, online, or just to share info on local events.
Forum
Discuss anything and everything here. Get to know the community. Share your thoughts, concerns, ideas and questions. Learn new things. Share and practice your writing skills. Plan collaborative projects. The possibilities are endless...
Video Chat
See fellow members face to face. Chat to plan an event, work on a project, catch up with old buddies, meet new people, or just to kill time.
- Meetings - Plan video chat meetings and conferences in advance, so you all know when to get online.
Upload and share all forms of arts and media here. You can comment and "like" submissions on these pages. Keep in mind we can only store 100 MB of data on the site, so any chance you have to link your photo, video and music uploads from a url instead of a direct file will make more room.
- Blogs - Share journal entries, poems, creative writing, fiction and non, essays, and any other piece of writing here.
- Links - Share your favorite websites, articles, flash games and whatever else you find laying around the internet.
- Videos - Share and watch your favorite Youtube videos directly from the site.
- Files - Upload documents, torrents and files and make them available for download.
- Photos - Share photos, artwork and images that inspire you or that you've made yourself. Please link from another website to save space.
- Music - Upload music you've made or you like to be played as mp3s for users to hear and download. The maximum file size is 5 MB and again please link to an mp3 url from another website to save space.
- Contact - Send an email to the site administrators directly.
- Ideas - Have suggestions on new ways to customize profile information? Want to see a new category on the forums? Share your ideas for the site here.
- Ask - Having problems using the site? Don't know your personality type? Just ask! Admins and other members will help.
Don't forget the toolbar at the bottom right. With it you can
- Search the site
- Check if you have new messages or notifications
- Join the chat room to see who's online. Click on a user's name on the right hand bar in the chat window to start a private instant message with them.