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Five social networking sites to look out for
Reading a lot of articles about social networking, one gets the impression that the consensus is that MySpace is peaking. MySpace will ever die, I think, but whether it will be the destination it is now in five years seems doubtful. Right now no other site holds a candle to its critical mass, but that doesn't mean everyone else is resting on their laurels. Blogger Fred Stutzman has written an interesting article called Social Networking: Five Sites You Need to Know, in which he examines five of the most promising, but low-profile, contenders for MySpace's throne. On his list are Cyworld, with 90% penetration among South Korean youth, Bebo, which has 20 million registered users and is especially popular in the U.K., Hi5 with 40 million users and a strong presence in India, Faceparty, a long-established U.K. brand with 6 million users and an interesting monetization scheme, and XuQa, a service with just 1 million users aimed at the college set, which Stutzman describes as "purposefully racy, full of game-like features-an anti-Facebook." He concludes with some sound observations about social networking trends. If you're interested in social networking but as sick of MySpace as I am, it's worth a read.
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Razib Ahmed said 6:43AM on 6-18-2006
Thanks for your infromative article. I am not a big fan of social sites but I know that millions of people are great fans of these sites. With the number of internet users increasing, this business will surely have a boom.
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hi5 said 1:20PM on 6-22-2006
Great post , social networking sites are becoming very popular now , before there was myspace / friendster targetting mainly usa/ uk audiance , now there are social networking sites for each community .. the easiness to make such social networking is at the root of this .. in a couple of years times , i expect most surfers to spend at least 3/4 of their time on social networking sites.
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