Connect - World Wide Social Networking: Understanding each other via Couchsurfing by Abdul Safiyanu

Abdul Safiyanu studies International Trade (BTS, brevet de technicien supérieur) at ORT School in Strasbourg, France.  Abdul has worked previously as a sales trainee with H&M Strasbourg, and in foreign market research with EAST Vibes.  Abdul enjoys sports, football (soccer) is his favourite.  Abdul wishes to travel and work with people from different countries to experience their way of life and their culture in general.  Abdul speaks French, English, Haussa (Nigeria), Twi (Ghana) and basic German.

The needs of adventure, discovery and sharing are at the origin of tourism.  Men like travelling and discovering, thanks to new means of transportation: It is often said that here begins somewhere else, because people can move from one part of the world to another in a couple of hours.

Very often people want to travel, but what if your financial situation is not very good?

Thanks to network tools such as Facebook in general, and Couchsurfing in particular, people from different horizons can link to share memories as well as accommodation.

Couchsurfing is interesting in that you can simply buy a plane ticket and go to the country of your choice as far as you have a link there. It is spreading so much because it is free.  Bloggers and users feel comfortable to tell their friends to try it because it is free.

Connecting people together in order to get free accommodations during their holidays presents numerous advantages. Indeed it creates links, brings together people who would have never met, helps the participants to easily understand cultures which are different from their own.  It is worth reminding that understanding people who are native of cultures which are different from ours may avoid many of the problems that humanity faces, such as wars etc…

We should not forget that it could encourage the growth of World trade and bring peace and prosperity as well. So could Couchsurfingbe one solution to ignorance? Or a new world cyber and real community? So far one thing is clear it keeps on growing everyday.