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2003: San Francisco (USA) for the first time in the world launched a beta version of the site visited network - ,,CouchSurfing"! Today it is one of the largest guest network (3 million people are united by more than 246 countries). Slogan: Participate in Creating a Better World, One Couch at a Time!

Network members provide free assistance to each other and lodging during travel and to organize joint trip (although, sometimes, by mutual agreement, the guests pay for the phone or food). The idea of ​​the guest network is to strengthen intercultural exchange and communication between people in a friendly informal atmosphere. This makes it possible to realize a natural desire to learn something new, to share experience in various spheres of life. In particular, because of this communion of people from different countries, different cultures and nationalities, they have the opportunity to look at the many international problems from different perspectives, to learn tolerance.

Register online free of charge, all functions are available after registration. Register may only person who has attained the age of 18. Confirm that the system name and address of the user (verification) is chargeable (cost depends on the country) and occurs in 3 stages. In the first stage the user enters his real name and address and blocks the possibility of changing them for yourself. On the second point, the user sends a certain amount of money through his bank card at the expense of Couchsurfing, for payment details of the site can verify the correctness of the specified name. In the third step the user is sent a postcard to the specified address them live. If the user received a postcard, the address is confirmed.
After each step in the profile icon appears, indicating that the user has passed a certain stage of verification, after a complete verification of the same passage in his profile, a green "tick". In the Finder, the service there is a clause that allows you to search only the last verification of users.
More information can be found on the official site: http://www.couchsurfing.org/