Social Networking World Wide

From the previous post (talked about top 20 social networking sites (2006)) we agreed that MySpace led market share of US internet visits to top 20 social networking sites. And now, here the map that gives us a preview about the spread of social networking sites world wide.


Image source: www.labnol.org

See, like I told that friendster were so popular in Indonesia, the map is in line with what I am thinking. Let's check another fact, from the map we've know that MySpace coverage includes large number of citizen countries like USA (off course), Australia, some of Europe country such as Italy and Greece.

But if we see the coverage from wide scale of the map we've know that LiveJournal has largest coverage. That social networking site covers almost Russia territory. So, the facts above indicate that a region preview hasn't represented the largest membership of social networking site yet. But, I think it still gives us a preview to know which social networking sites that have good services.

Basically, each social networking site has its own characters, especially if its characters faced with the characters of its users. Users would be directed by chosen social networking site (by its characters) because of their compatibility with the chosen social networking site. Or, they would decided to choose another social networking site that have compatibility with their characters (for example, orkut, a social networking site where popular in Brazil and India and BlackPlanet, a social networking site with its African-Americans typical member).