In Sonico.com, privacy is essential. Because of that, users can choose every aspect of their accounts, making the information available only for whom they decide. Filtering (by networks, friends or particular users) and blocking content access are two extra tools designed to improve privacy.

The profile is where users display their information the way they prefer to, having the possibility of choosing among different privacy levels. This way, only their friends and network members can access to their profile. In addition, users can change the design, modifying styles, colors and pictures.

The board is the place where user’s friends can post comments and videos that will be available for anyone that has access to his/her profile.

In the Friends page, users have a list of all their contacts, with quick access options like checking their profile, pictures or sending private messages.

Groups are communities where users share common interests. After joining a group, they can participate in forums, upload photos, create events and send messages. Every group has its own privacy level and theme.

Users can join different networks (divided by colleges, high-schools and zones) that allow them to interact with acquaintances or old friends.

Messages are useful as a private communication system among users, since they are stored and organized in inbox and sent trays.

Users can upload unlimited photos and organize them in different albums. In order to share them with their friends, users are able to tag persons, add a description and choose the privacy level. Users’ contacts are able to comment the photos and tag them as well.

Users are able to have a collection of their favorite YouTube videos. They can share them, play them in the site, post them in their friends’ wall and add comments in them.

Any user (even a non-Sonico.com one) can play 6 multiplayer games (Bowling, Chess, Checkers, Domino, Naval Battle and Pool) and nearly 200 singleplayer games divided in Action, Sports, Ability/Strategy and Retro. Registered users are also able to save highscores, recommend the games and challenge their friends to compare performances.

Sonico.com allows its users to chat with their friends through an embedded messenger (IM), accessible from the entire site.

Users are able to update their status through the global activity panel, their profile pages or mobile phone, so their contacts are aware of his actions.

Greeting cards section offers a wide variety of animated and interactive creativities that users can send among them or to non-Sonico.com users. They also have the option to schedule sendings in advance.

Sonico.com has a birthday and events reminder system that allows users to manage their agenda and keep up to date about their acquaintances activity.

In the welcome page, users can be updated about their friend’s activity. There they can find news about photos, new albums, calendar events, their friends’ status, new relationships and more information of interest.

In every user’s profile there is an updated report of his/her activity, including comments, tags, profile and status. That report is visible for all his/her friends.

Through Sonico’s search engine, users can find their friends easily using filters like interests, age, network and many others. Non-Sonico.com users also have access to the search tool but, in that case, the results are based only on public profiles with restrained information.

Sonico.com visitors can find friends and acquaintances easily and without registering, thanks to the People Directory located on the homepage.