Hey, cyber filipinas! we’re back!

Hello Filipinas! I’m Perla, your sister filipina netizen. I’ve been using the internet since 1991, and using, designing and publishing on the web since 1996. Along with some other friends and pioneering Filipinas online in 1998, we started the first online community for Filipinas on the Web. It was called Bagong Pinay and was found at newfilipina.com. Most of you might already know that newfilipina.com began as the anti- filipina.com in 1998. And many of you visitors used to be members of the community site of www.newfilipina.com, aka “bagongpinay”, that was a site for and by filipinas. You contributed articles, shared your experiences and opinions in our discussion boards and left feedback about how the site affected you. It was going strong between 1998 and 2004. I have to thank you all for sharing of yourselves and supporting newfilipina.com back then. The work at newfilipina.com evolved into many other things including babaylanism, pakikipagkapwa, the Filipino American Women’s Network Conference of 2005 (FAWN2005), and now pinay.com.

But I feel I owe newfilipina.com’s dedicated visitors of the past an apology because in 2006, the BP/NF site had technical problems, the home page disappeared, our family moved half way across the country, and other major life changes got in the way. So, thanks for waiting and checking back after that year of absence.

May 2008 will mark the 10th anniversary of newfilipina.com. From hereon, newfilipina.com will be a blog with links to take you to archives of the old community site pre-2006. Use the links to the left column to view the old community site.

The community site of newfilipina.com used to have many features, but, don’t be disappointed, because new Filipina sites are being developed to take over the myriad of features that this once-upon-a-community site, for fiipinas and by filipinas, once had to offer.

Also visit the coming new beta site at www.pinay.com! It is another site for and by Filipinas!

It all began in 1995 when I found that search engine result pages yielded mail order bride sites and sex tourism bar girl sites and many pornographic sites. To help continue with shaping the Filipina image online please copy and paste the following links in your blog or webpages:

newfilipina.com, pinay.com, FabulousFilipinas.net, phenomenalfilipinas.com, babaylan.net, babaylan.com, pakikipagkapwa.net, fawn2005.com, baybayinalive,

pinay scandal, pinoyambisyoso-pinoyscandal, yan ang pinay, filipinaimages.com