Facebook V/S Far East Social networks

March 30th, 2008

ReadWriteWeb has a fantastic blog about the social networks in the far east. I wrote a similar blog about social networking globally.

Given Facebook is popular in US/UK (and Africa) it still has a lot of catching up to do when you compare it will QQ.com’s 300m users. Another interesting figure is Facebook’s position amongst other web properties, according to Alexa:

Although China’s Facebook aka QQ.com is number two in popularity in world’s oldest continuous civilization. The general reaction towards Facebook is getting fairly negative. Personally the statistics matter less than what my non-geek colleagues are saying about FB: “Boring..nothing exciting”, “I have 121 friend requests”, “I have pending messages”… not really optimistic!

Compared to the beginning of last year Facebook has seen 41.8% rise in attention but is now losing it at 3.8%. I would be interested to see steps FB is taking to turn things around.

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Posted by Raj Anand Filed in Facebook, Myspace, Social Networks, Web World



4 Responses to “Facebook V/S Far East Social networks”

  1. Facebook V/S Far East Social networks Says:
    March 30th, 2008 at 10:31 pm

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  2. Din Says:
    March 30th, 2008 at 11:22 pm

    You forgot China’s 3rd Largest Social Network, 360QUAN.com,owned by Koolanoo Group. It has been documented the ‘MySPace’ of China in several news papers

  3. JunKhat Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 8:04 am

    360Quan.com reported by the press in China as a ‘local phenomenon’. Reported by Baidu, ChinaLabs, and several other tech reports as the ’spark of online China’, and the ‘future company in China’. 360Quan.com is a leading Internet property

  4. Raj Anand Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 8:10 am

    Thanks Din and JunKhat. 360Quan.com looks interesting:

    * No. 1 Making Friends Website in China
    * 3rd Largest Social Network in China
    * 8th Largest Community Website in China
    * Top 5 Most Popular Website of 2007
    * Over 30 Million Playing On 360Quan EVERY MONTH



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