By Maria Enezli, PARAPOLITIKA Newspaper
After the huge impact that Facebook had and continues to have, for some time now the first Greek social network, the "Greek Facebook", as the Greek media called it, or, otherwise, the Greek Smile, which is coming to conquer the global social network market, has been online - and even in its last pilot phase - and is coming to conquer the global social network market. Built on the same code that Facebook is written on and despite all its innovations, the user feels familiar with his environment from the beginning.
Regarding its design, it is more modern and, in addition to being the social network par excellence, it also offers the Greek YouTube, the "Greek Smile Tube". It also allows the user to "download" their favorite music, blogging, and information with 6 thematic "newsportals", which will be operational very soon, and in a very short time will offer everything a country has to offer. This, moreover, is its huge innovation, in relation to any other social network on the planet, as revealed to "PARAPOLITIKA" by the President-Ceo of the multinational Group Dreamworks Corp. Worldwide and Founder of Dream Group and now of Greek Smile (Greek-smile.com), Phoebus Moridis.
The reason for the creation of this particular social network was, as he himself says, a scenario that troubled him and reminded him once again of the negative image that has been formed abroad for Greeks - especially in recent years when the country has been in a period of crisis. "At one point, at a meeting where I was and introductions were being made, upon hearing my surname, a lady asked me if I was Spanish. I proudly and proudly answered that I was Greek and that was where it all began. She started to bury Greeks all together, using the worst phrases and expressions! Suffice it to say that the descriptions, “bankrupt, state-sponsored, lazy” were the mildest. I managed to keep my cool after the intervention of acquaintances and I began, after I was alone, to bring the scene to my mind and to reflect. So, I began to think about what I could do to help, from my side, as much as I could, to change this image that they have of us and I thought of the Greek Smile, since the smile characterizes us as a people.”.
In Greece, the sun, the sky, the sea smile at us and people, even today, despite the hardships they have faced, continue to smile (albeit less)… This was both the driving force and the source of inspiration for Greek Smile. As he himself claims, it is precisely this smile that Greece and the Greek have - at least until recently, in the pre-crisis era.
With a vision to create the new, global “internet” homeland of the 25 million residents of the Diaspora and Metropolitan Greece, as well as the hundreds of millions of philhellenes worldwide, Mr. Moridis and his associates aspire to ensure that all these Greeks have daily contact and communication, as well as collaborations and participation in daily events and projects, which revolve around Greece. “We are creating a “new country”, the… Greek Smile Republic, the… Republic of the Greek Smile and the social network, the Greek Smile Network, will be the means of promoting and developing this new country: the New Global Smiling Greece”.
Arguing that this will go a long way in reversing the bad image that has been created for Greeks, he explains the benefits of the Greek Facebook. “Greeks will be able to meet other Greeks, as well as foreign philhellenes. We have planned a large series of events, which we believe will become an institution in a few years, in which public participation is an end in itself. And this is a huge difference between us and any other social network. We are not an impersonal networking platform, but an active, living, real community that is constantly creating and evolving. In fact, we are also creating a series of unique innovative products for our country, since it will also have the production of products, with a strong export character.”.
"Our target, the stock markets"
With a committee that will have the supervision and general supervision and will be composed of famous Greeks who excel abroad, but also with the establishment of the institution of Ambassadors, Greek Smile aims to become the spearhead of the global development of the Greek spirit and entrepreneurship. “There are top names of global Hellenism that could constitute this “committee”, Michael Dukakis, Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis, Arianna Huffington. The also top anchormen George Stephanopoulos and Nikos Aliagas, the actors Zach Galyfianakis, Jennifer Aniston, Nia Vardalos, Tom Hanks with his Greek wife Rita Wilson, Maria Menounos, Kostas Gavras and many others! Some of them, in fact, have already created a profile on GS on their own, without anyone from us approaching them”, says Mr. Phoebus Moridis and concludes by presenting the general goal of this new venture. “With a single condition, in order to become a member, to love Greece and already having 309,000 members, our goal within the next two years is for the shares of the first Greek interests social network to be listed on the Frankfurt, London and New York Stock Exchanges… and for many innovative projects to operate under the umbrella of Greek Smile”.
Source: planet-greece.blogspot.com
