How many times have you said “I love you” to another person? And more importantly, who have you said that to? The phrase is often associated with being said to someone who is, or who becomes, your partner. And Valentine’s Day is a day that highlights this sentiment.

However the use of the phrase “I love you” has always had a much broader dimension. There are literally hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people we come across in our life time who we will say “I love you” to. And depending to whom it is said, it will have different levels of meanings.  It also depends on what stage we are in life as to the meaning and intensity we give to the phrase “I love you”.

Think about to who you have said “I love you”. Was it someone close to you through birth? Or was it a new person in your life? Or maybe it wasn’t even a person but an animal or an object. All can qualify for your loving affections. It really depends on what meaning you give to phrase “I love you” when saying it.

And equally important is how you show your love to another. It can be with a smile, a wink, a hug, a kiss, an action, a gift or some other form of supplementary communication. The method one chooses to show their affection is sometimes as important as the verbal communication itself.

At Spacelocker we have a gift gallery to help you show your affection to another on Valentine’s Day, or for that matter on any other day of the year. It’s easy to use. Once you are a member of Spacelocker start making friends and communicating with them through stickies, stikkmms or messaging. Then when you think you would like to show more affection to your new friend, send them a gift from the gift gallery.

Just click on their profile like you do for the other communications. Then click on the gift box on their locker page. Up will pop a gift gallery window. Take a look at the new gifts we have added for 2010 Valentine’s Day, or any of the others that are there.  Then choose a gift; and if you want you can also send a message along with the gift. Your gift will be pasted on your friend’s locker wall and also put in their gift box on their locker shelves.

At Spacelocker we make it easy for you to say “I love you” to a friend.

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Spacelocker has a variety of themes for the look of your locker. It’s how your locker will appear to you each time you enter the website. It defines your personality.

Are you a space enthusiast? Then the space theme is right for you. Or maybe you are a naturalist and green supporter. Then the earth theme will fit for you.  Or possibly you like an alternative lifestyle. The grunge theme is perfect then.  Or perhaps labels and expensive things are favourites of yours. Try the posh theme. Or maybe you are a bit of a geek or into motorized things. The mechanical theme will make you feel at home.

Alternatively you may like one theme when you are in a certain mood, and another theme in a totally different mood. Or maybe one theme suits you better when you are at school or work and another when you are just socializing with friends on the weekend. Choose different themes for different moods or times.

Whatever your choice it’s quick and easy.

When you first sign up with Spacelocker.com your locker is set on the default theme. To see the themes available and to change the default theme just click on the icon on the top shelf in the middle of your default theme (artist palette icon). A new window will open giving you a choice of 6 very different locker themes. To set a new locker theme click on the small button under the locker. Then click apply. At any time you can go back and change the themes as many times as you like.

Choosing a theme for your Spacelocker is like decorating your own locker; but a whole lot easier. It’s just a click of the mouse.

So have some fun with the locker themes on Spacelocker.com. And be whoever you want to be.

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Privacy is a big issue in the Internet. With explosion of social networks, the issue is bigger than ever. Complaints have come from every sector, individuals, special interest groups, governments, etc. The Canadian government limply sought to sanction Facebook if it did not change its privacy policy. The Chinese government is now in a standoff with Google.

But at the heart of this controversy is the individual user. The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, said that if he were to start Facebook again he would not make anything private on his website. His rational for this was that he believes that in general social network users want to make everything on their page public. The latest Internet phenomenon, Twitter, is premised on the desire of users to let others know what they are doing in their daily lives. So it is Internet users who are deciding how much privacy they want. And that decision appears to be in favour of less privacy, not more.

At Spacelocker we make it simple for users to decide on the level of privacy they want.

First, with the new sign up procedures you are given a choice of which existing friends you want to invite to be part of your locker. And you are given a choice of what method you want to use to invite those friends to your Spacelocker – automatically from your web based address book, or by adding them individually.

Once you are a member of Spacelocker, you can decide which Spacelocker users you want to become your friends. You can easily invite a user to be you friend by clicking on their profile picture in the Meeting Place. A window will open asking you to “add as a friend”. Or you may receive a friend request asking you whether you want to add that person as a friend. The decision is yours whether you want to add someone or not. You can be as public or as private as you want on Spacelocker.

When you use your locker page you decide what you want to post on that page and what you will allow others to post on it. If you do not like something some has posted on your page simply use the delete button and it will be instantly removed. Or if you think someone has been abusive, you can report them by clicking on their profile and use the report abuse button that can be found in their friends box. And finally if you are really unhappy with the levels of privacy in Spacelocker simply ask to be removed.

Spacelocker gives users a clear choice on the issue of privacy.

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Get your profile picture up on your Spacelocker account. Our analytics show that you have a 20 times better chance of being accepted as a friend if you have a personal profile picture on your account. That’s a 2000% better prospect of having some interaction with Spacelocker members!!!

It’s easy to upload a profile picture and only takes a few seconds.

When you first login to your Spacelocker account, click on your profile icon on the top shelf of your locker. You will go to your locker page. On the top left side of the page you will see a blue smiley face; and under that a green button that says “add photo”. Click on the green add photo button. A small window will open where you can browse your computer to find the picture you want to have for your profile picture.  As said above, if the picture is a personal one of yourself you are 20 times more likely to be accepted as a Spacelocker friend.

Once your profile picture has uploaded, click on the orange save button and it will be instantly on your locker page and visible to all Spacelocker members. It’s that easy. And that fast.

If you already have a profile picture or you want to change it, just click on the green edit profile button on the top right of your locker page. A new window will open. At the bottom of that window there is a space for “Profile Photo”. Click on the browse button to find a personal photo and then click the orange save button.  Refresh your page and the changes are done and up on your locker page.

Have more fun on Spacelocker and meet more people. Upload a profile picture.

You will not have to go through a full body scan to enter Spacelocker. It’s easy to enter and we have a safe environment. And at Spacelocker you only show what you want to!

So come and join us by signing up to Spacelocker.com.

To sign up just click the blue sign up button on the front page. You will go to the sign up page. There you can choose to either sign up using your Gmail, hotmail, yahoo or aol email address and your existing password. Or you can use any existing email address, including the web based email addresses, and create a new password.

If you decide to sign up, using the left side sign up form, with a Gmail, hotmail, yahoo or aol email address and your existing password, you will have an opportunity to invite friends from the address book of that email address. Our software will collect your friends from your address book. Then you will have an opportunity to decide which friends you want to invite to join you in Spacelocker by leaving a check mark by their name. Once you have decided you can proceed and only those friends you have chosen will be invited to join you in Spacelocker.

Or if you decide to sign up using the right side sign up form and any existing email address, including the web based email addresses, and create a new password, you will have to manually invite your friends to Spacelocker using our add friends feature.

So keep your body to yourself, and just use your fingers on the keyboard of your computer to enter Spacelocker. Our members are friendly and just want to have fun. Nothing too serious.

Spacelocker — the happiest space on earth.

For many the New Year brings a time for new commitments. The top 10 New Year resolutions appear to be:
1.    Spend more time with family and friends,
2.    Get physically fit
3.    Loose weight
4.    Quit smoking
5.    Enjoy life more
6.    Quit drinking
7.    Get out of debt
8.    Learn something new
9.    Help others
10.    Get organized

What are your New Years resolutions for 2010? Are they any of the above? Or maybe they are something completely different. It’s good to think about the year ahead and what you want to accomplish. But the goals you set must be attainable.

Oscar Wilde said “Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”

Will your New Years resolution this year be an empty promise or will it be meaningful and attainable? Jim Wang says to be SMART about setting your New Years Resolution goals:
•    “Specific – Be as specific as possible as to what you want to accomplish. “Spend more time with friends” is not specific and too easy to abandon because you don’t know when you’ve reached that goal.
•    Measurable – If you can measure it then you’ll be able to track your progress. If you can track your progress, you’ll know when you’ve achieved it or how far close you are.
•    Attainable – You can’t run a race unless you know when it ends right? It has to be an attainable goal otherwise it’s too easy to give up. You don’t want it to be easy to achieve, but you don’t want to put it out of reach.
•    Realistic – This pairs with attainable because you don’t want to set such an auspicious goal that it’s impossible to achieve. You can adjust it based on your progress but you can’t shoot for the next galaxy at the start (the moon is OK though).
•    Timely – Everything needs a bound. If you have no sense of when it needs to be achieved, then it can always wait until tomorrow. Or the next day. Or next year.”

At Spacelocker our New Years goal is to give our members an even more fun locker experience. We will look at new ways for you to connect and interact with your locker friends. Sharing and forwarding things with friends is always a great way to stay in touch. We are looking at ways we can make it even easier for you to digitally forward and share things with your locker friends. So come back to your locker often. Meet new friends. Connect with old ones. And look for new interactive experiences.

From all of us at Spacelocker, we wish you an awesome New Year. May all your hopes and dreams for 2010 come true.

Do you know the origins of “Boxing Day”— the day after Christmas?  The day was first celebrated in the British Isles. It then grew to be celebrated in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and throughout the United Kingdom. It has further evolved in different forms in other English speaking countries.

Boxing Day is commonly understood to be the day after Christmas when the stores open with huge discounts on the merchandise they are offering for sale. This discount shopping tradition was originally just on December 26, but has developed into “Boxing Week”, where discounted merchandise is offered for sale for the whole week after Christmas— and now even sometimes longer!

Boxing Day is something similar to shopping “Black Friday” in the United States. Black Friday in the US is the Friday following American Thanksgiving Day. It signals the beginning of the Christmas shopping season and traditionally gives consumers large discounts on merchandise being offered for sale. This day, like Boxing Day described above, relates to the commercialization of Christmas shopping.

However the origins of Boxing Day have more altruistic roots. The essence of the day is to share one’s fortunes with needy people. The name is derived from the fact that the day after Christmas the boxes in the house are filled with gifts and articles in excess and these gifts are then shared with the poor and the needy. In the Western world Christmas gift giving in many instances has gone over the top. Some receive so many gifts on Christmas Day they can not remember who they are from.

It is wonderful to appreciate and enjoy the gifts you have been given at Christmas. But if you get lots it is equally satisfying to share them with others. Spacelocker makes this possible if you receive a Spacelocker virtual gift from your locker friends.

When you log into your locker you will see a gift box on the bottom shelf. Click on it and see if your locker friends have given you some free virtual gifts. Click on reply and send them a gift back from the gift gallery. Or maybe invite some other members to be a locker friend and send them a free Spacelocker virtual gift as a sign of sharing.

Spacelocker hopes that you will continue the original Boxing Day spirit of sharing throughout the year, both inside and outside your locker.

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Spacelocker has members in 171 counties around the world. To those members who celebrate Christmas we would like to wish you all a “Merry Christmas”. To all our locker friends who do not celebrate Christmas, in the spirit of Christmas joy and friendship we also send you our heartfelt greetings.

To try and reach as many of you as possible we are sending our greetings in as many languages as we can.

May the joy and spirit of good tidings and fellowship be with you where ever you are.

Afrikaans: Geseënde Kersfees
Afrikander: Een Plesierige Kerfees
African/ Eritrean/ Tigrinja: Rehus-Beal-Ledeats
Albanian:Gezur Krislinjden
Arabic: Milad Majid
Argentine: Feliz Navidad
Armenian: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
Azeri: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun
Bahasa Malaysia: Selamat Hari Natal
Basque: Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!
Bengali: Shuvo Naba Barsha
Bohemian: Vesele Vanoce
Bosnian: (BOSANSKI) Cestit Bozic i Sretna Nova godina
Brazilian: Feliz Natal
Breton: Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat
Bulgarian: Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo
Catalan: Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!
Chile: Feliz Navidad
Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan’Gung Haw Sun
Chinese: (Mandarin) Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan
Choctaw: Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito
Columbia: Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo
Cornish: Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
Corsian: Pace e salute
Crazanian: Rot Yikji Dol La Roo
Cree: Mitho Makosi Kesikansi
Croatian: Sretan Bozic
Czech: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
Danish: Glædelig Jul
Duri: Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak
Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig Kerstfeast
English: Merry Christmas
Eskimo: (inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
Esperanto: Gajan Kristnaskon
Estonian: Rõõmsaid Jõulupühi
Ethiopian: (Amharic) Melkin Yelidet Beaal
Faeroese: Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjar!
Farsi: Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad
Finnish: Hyvaa joulua
Flemish: Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar
French: Joyeux Noel
Frisian: Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!
Galician: Bo Nada
Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr!
German: Fröhliche Weihnachten
Greek: Kala Christouyenna!
Haiti: (Creole) Jwaye Nowel or to Jesus Edo Bri’cho o Rish D’Shato Brichto
Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!
Hawaiian: Mele Kalikimaka
Hebrew: Mo’adim Lesimkha. Chena tova
Hindi: Shub Naya Baras (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Hungarian: Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket
Icelandic: Gledileg Jol
Indonesian: Selamat Hari Natal
Iraqi: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Irish: Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat
Iroquois: Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut. Ojenyunyat osrasay.
Italian: Buone Feste Natalizie
Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
Jiberish: Mithag Crithagsigathmithags
Korean: Sung Tan Chuk Ha
Lao: souksan van Christmas
Latin: Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!
Latvian: Prieci’gus Ziemsve’tkus un Laimi’gu Jauno Gadu!
Lausitzian:Wjesole hody a strowe nowe leto
Lettish: Priecigus Ziemassvetkus
Lithuanian: Linksmu Kaledu
Low Saxon: Heughliche Winachten un ‘n moi Nijaar
Luxembourgish: Schèine Chreschtdaag an e gudde Rutsch
Macedonian: Sreken Bozhik
Maltese: IL-Milied It-tajjeb
Manx: Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa
Maori: Meri Kirihimete
Marathi: Shub Naya Varsh (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Navajo: Merry Keshmish
Norwegian: God Jul, or Gledelig Jul
Occitan: Pulit nadal e bona annado
Papiamento: Bon Pasco
Papua New Guinea: Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu
Pennsylvania German: En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr!
Peru: Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año Nuevo
Philipines: Maligayan Pasko!
Polish: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie
Portuguese:Feliz Natal
Pushto: Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha
Rapa-Nui (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
Rhetian: Bellas festas da nadal e bun onn
Romanche: (sursilvan dialect): Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!
Rumanian: Sarbatori vesele or Craciun fericit
Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
Sami: Buorrit Juovllat
Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
Sardinian: Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nou
Scots Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil huibh
Serbian: Hristos se rodi.
Singhalese: Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
Slovak: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
Slovene: Vesele Bozicne Praznike Srecno Novo Leto or Vesel Bozic in srecno Novo leto
Spanish: Feliz Navidad
Swedish: God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År
Tagalog: Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
Tamil: (Tamizh) Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Trukeese: (Micronesian) Neekiriisimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!
Thai: Sawadee Pee Mai or souksan wan Christmas
Turkish: Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Ukrainian: Srozhdestvom Kristovym or Z RIZDVOM HRYSTOVYM
Urdu: Naya Saal Mubarak Ho (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Vietnamese: Chuc Mung Giang Sinh
Welsh: Nadolig Llawen
Yoruba: E ku odun, e ku iye’dun!

Merry Christmas from the all of us at Spacelocker.

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Do you want to surprise a Spacelocker friend with a Christmas present that pops out of a box? Or maybe you want to give a group of carollers signing a favourite Christmas song. Or what about giving a sparkling Christmas tree? Well go to the Spacelocker graphic gallery and search through the links Spacelocker has provided to numerous graphic websites and find that perfect graphic you want to post on a friend’s wall.

Here’s how to do it. Click on any locker friend’s profile. In your friend’s comment space, on the right side wall, click on “get graphics”. A new page will open called the Spacelocker “Graphic Links Gallery”. There are several links to other websites that offer free graphics. Click on any one of them.

Search for the graphic you like in any of the links we have provided. When you find the Christmas graphic that you like copy the html code. You do this by highlighting the html code, right click your mouse over it, and click on copy. Then go back to your locker friend’s profile that should still be open. Point your mouse on the comment space of your locker friend, right click your mouse, and click on paste.  The graphic will appear in this space.

Have fun and post several graphics. They are all free. It’s a nice surprise to get something in your locker from a friend. It’s like getting a surprise gift.

At Spacelocker we want our members to feel the joy of giving and receiving. So post a free graphic to a locker friend. I am sure they will send you one back.

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This is the time of year when many people are looking for “that special gift” for family and friends. For those who celebrate Christmas, giving and receiving gifts are an important part of this celebration.  At Spacelocker we make it easy for our members to exchange gifts  — and the best part is they are totally free!

You all know the story of the three wise men from the East following a star to give baby Jesus gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.  Originally Christmas gift giving was celebrated as a religious feast on January 6th. Over time, the tradition of giving gifts came to be more associated with Christmas than with its religious roots. It is the time from Christmas to the original time of celebration (Epiphany) in the Church calendar - from December 25th through January 6th - that is recognized as the “twelve days of Christmas” from the old Christmas carol.

That’s how and when Christmas gift giving started. Now about the why of giving Christmas gifts. Deep down what gift giving is all about is a sign of affection for your family members or friends. Remember when you were a child and the gifts being exchanged were just some drawings you made on paper. We were thrilled to receive them because the gift came with the love of the giver. It did not have to be some expensive thing that cost a lot of money. What was important was that you were remembered at this time by someone close to you.

That is what the Spacelocker free virtual gifts are about. You can surprise you Spacelocker friends by posting a gift in their locker. It can be an ornament, or flowers, or the smiling face of Santa Claus. These gifts bring back the original reason for gift giving — to show another that you are thinking about them.

So go to the Spacelocker gift gallery by clicking on the gift box in a friend’s profile page and choose a free Christmas gift to give to them.

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