Social Networking Sites: How Social on Internet we are ?

Social Networking sites are measure of how social on Internet we are? There are a lot of social networking sites which are being used by millions of users, famous ones being: Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Myspace, Orkut, Netlog, Hi5 and more.

Facebook : This is the site, which was made nearly 5 years ago, Most widely used social networking site at this time, 350 million users currently, adding half a million users everyday (500000 users daily sign up for facebook, isn’t it too much ?? ), Main users from developed countries (where almost 70-80 % people have Internet accessibility) and becoming famous in developing countries too. Main power of site is friends updates, like button and ease to access to comment and use the site. Most of Celebrities use this site to keep in touch with their fans and promte their products.

Twitter: This microblogging site was released in 2006, in just 3 years gained so much popularity. Most experts think it to be the future of social networking. Main reason for the success of this microblogging site, I think, is: Everybody wants to express his/her feelings, views and they want to generally let the others know what they feel/think and this site provides the best medium to them. There are a lot of celebrities on twitter tweeting about their personal life, profession life and their visions.

Orkut: This site was launched nearly at the same time as that of Facebook, owned by Google, mostly used in Brazil, India and Pakistan. (In India aorund 7% of total population uses Internet). Main Power of Orkut lies in Community forums, scraps, a long way to go to compete with facebook.

There are other famous social networking sites those are being used, but as far as social networking in current scnerio is concerned, Facebook and Twitter have eaten most of the share of other social networking site. Myspace which used to be rank-1 social networking site some time ago, is now no more rank one. Linkedin is mostly used for professional pusposes (50 million uses currently on it).

This will the scene to see, which one these social networking medium captures others market or any new social networking site emerge as new winner.

Happy social networking,

Tarun

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