InTheRooms.com is a new site that has a growing membership of people in recovery wishing to dialogue about various 12 step recovery support groups.
I was contacted by one of the owners of InTheRooms.com and asked to check out his site. I liked what I saw. They provide a platform for connection with like minded persons in recovery. This is a fairly new site that appears to have a vision and clarity of purpose.
Here are some features they offer:
1: There are over 800 speaker tapes in the Speaker Tape library. Upload your own speaker tapes! Users can have discussions on any of them, tag them, and soon will be able to share them with their friends on their profile.
2: Creating home groups: create an online group for your home group, communicate and message everyone at the same time
3: List your passions, interests, and hobbies: When filling out the “About” section of your profile, separate items by commas, and when you are in your profile, you can click on your interests and the site will find others that have the same interests as you. Click on a zip code, and see everyone in your area. Click on a home group, and see everyone in your home group. Click on a treatment center, meet new alumni. In fact, click on anything in your profile and discover new people.
4: Upload a picture and create a photo album: Add pictures to your profile, instantly share them with everyone you know!
5: Post Comments on other people’s pages: Catch up with your friends quick and easy.
6: Send Messages: Don’t know someone’s email or phone number? No Problem. Just send them a message using InTheRooms!
7: Read daily news on addiction, from all over the world!
8: Connect to others in your fellowship: Check out the fellowship groups and post discussions, comments. Find and meet new people in your own fellowship!
They have even more planned down the road:
1: Online Speaker Meetings: Weekly meetings on the internet with video, sound, and feedback! Just like a regular meeting, except you can connect with people all over the world! (Any visitors from out of town?…)
2: Global Online Meeting Lists: choose the meetings you attend and see them on a map on your profile. Share meetings with your friends, notify friends automatically to meet up with you!
3: Sponsor Family Tree: Visually connect everyone in your sponsorship family, see who’s connected to each other, discover and meet new people related to you!
4: More choices for daily meditations: Add different books of meditations to your profile, write your own meditations and share them with your friends!
5: Mobile: Receive messages from your friends, groups, instantly from site to cellphone.
A final note: I really like the fact that inquiries were answered personaly and in a timely manner. To me, that shows a dedication to the site.
Hope you take the time to meet my new friends.
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I was unable to find the Privacy Policy for Intherooms.com, although they state in the Terms of Use :
“11. Privacy. Use of the InTheRooms Services is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.”
But they do not tell what the privacy policy is. I am inclined to trust this site because it looks like a good thing. But this seems like a major oversight. I don’t want to join until I read the privacy policy, as a matter of principle. As a business (or even as a nonprofit), Intherooms.com owes it to their customers/users to be forthright about their privacy policy.
Could you please send them this comment so that I can get more information?
Thank you
–A grateful recovering addict.
It looks like they incorporated thier privacy policy right into terms of service. http://intherooms.com/site/tos
I would ask any specific question you wish:
http://intherooms.com/user/feedback
I have had email contact with the owner and found him resposive.
Bill