Social Networking in various continents
February 25th, 2008
Alex the good man just sent me this link in French. Check out the market share of Facebook globally. In Asia it doesn’t have any market share. The Asian market is the biggest in terms of size of internet users but not in terms of social networkers. Orkut is big in Asia and Latin America.
Although Facebook is the most popular social network in Africa. Clearly Social networking has not hit Africa as it has in North America
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February 25th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
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March 10th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Interesting … I wonder whether there are strengthening ties between countries dominated by the same YASN which may otherwise have little historical / cultural connection.
Are Brazilians and Indians becoming friends on Orkut? Do Portuguese, Peruvians and Mongolians hang out together on Hi5? Fascinating to imagine what cultural mashups may be happening out there.
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