Contact a Family has just launched its own group and profile on a range of social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo.

They’ve also opened a virtual advice service - an online ‘office’ on the innovative internet site called Second Life. On this site users create a character and move and talk with others in a virtual 3D world that looks very similar to a computer game. And it has around 13 million people registered. Their office is now open every Wednesday from 10am-4pm when it is staffed by a Contact a Family advisor named Advisor Somerflek.

It is also somewhere you can access a wide range of our publications or even talk to other ‘avatars’ (virtual people)visiting the office.