Love is in the air - happy Valentine’s from Sulake!
It’s again time for love, friendship, roses, heart-shaped chocolate boxes and other cutezie stuff
;) We at Sulake take Valentine’s seriously – or romantically in other words…
As a preparation for the day of love we wanted to find out what teens and tweens globally
think about relationships, dating etc. Activity certainly was not a problem, as we got over 64,000
replies for our Habbo Valentines poll! Despite climbing divorce rates amongst parents, we found out
that teens today are really big romantics at heart: 66% believe in love at first sight and 75% per
cent would like to get married one day. About 53% of all the people surveyed want to be married
before the ripe old age of 25 – if this will happen the future will certainly be different ☺
It also seems that the old saying “it’s the inside that counts” still counts – when asking
about important qualities of the special someone, personality and sense of humor was placed above
everything else!
Habborella and lots of hugs
A couple of weeks before the actual Valentine’s day Habbo was transformed into a
Habborella cruise ship,
during which the “ship crew” (i.e. Habbo staff) concentrated solely on arranging love, passion and
dating related activities to entertain the cruise guests ☺ Today on Valentines day, the cruise will
culminate to a Valentines Ball, which will surely be the party of the year!
As part of the Valentines activities, Habbo also arranged a virtual version of the
Free Hugs campaign on
Monday the 11th. The virtual hugging campaign was carried out in several Habbo communities around
the world, and Habbos were thrilled of the event, showing up in enthusiastic masses to participate
in the hugging ☺ In Australia the real-life Free Hugs predecessor Juan Mann also participated in
the hugging event in Habbo with his own, pixilated character.
If you don’t know this: the
Free hugs campaign was originally
started by an Australian guy called Juan Mann whose life mission once became reaching out and
hugging strangers to brighten up their lives. Since the start of the ‘movement’, people have been
following Juan’s footsteps, and e.g. in Youtube you can find several videos of the hugging movement
from all over the world ☺
Our other community, Finland’s largest social networking service
IRC-Galleria also arranged some exciting
Valentine’s stuff – one of their missions has been to find out what role the service has had in
matching people. So far they have found 600 married people and over 1800 people who found a dating
partner in IRC-Galleria.
Funky Valentines Day to you all!