Social Network Comparison
| Manoj Jasra - Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2 Comments |
The popularity and strength of social networks is heavily based on geographical region. The images from Google Trends below depict this very well: Facebook is more popular than MySpace in Canada, Orkut Dominates in India, MySpace is strongest in Russia/US (where Facebook is making a huge surge). The images below show Facebook, MySpace, Orkut and Hi5 compared on Google Trends for the regions: Canada, Russia, United Kingdom, United States and India.
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India
Russia
United Kingdom
United States
Here are some additional resources which compare the most popular social networks:
- CNet: Facebook cooler than MySpace?
- DEN News: Facebook vs. Myspace: The Heat is On
- Giga OM: Facebook vs MySpace: The Tale of the Tape
- Chronicle of the Backburner: Facebook vs MySpace: Battle of the Social Networks
- Hung Truong: Facebook Vs. Orkut: What Do Googlers Think?
- Web Analytics World: Facebook vs. Orkut
- Noshtradamus: Facebook versus Orkut versus the rest
- OM Baghel: FaceBook vs. MySpace vs. Orkut
- Overstated.net: Orkut to take over MySpace?
- Small Panda: Orkut Vs. MySpace
- Yahoo Answers: Hi5 vs. Facebook
- NSIT Lounge: Orkut vs. Hi5
- Orkut vs. Friendster
- Read Write Web: The Social Networking Faceoff
- Danah.org: Friendster vs. MySpace
- eWeek: Google/OpenSocial vs. Microsoft/Facebook
- Miron's Weblog: OpenSocial vs. Facebook API - an analysis
Labels: Facebook, MySpace, Social Networking
There are many social networking services operated like Orkut.com, MySpace, Facebook, etc. Orkut.com is being operated by Google. MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends' friends. These are popular sites especially among youths. Here people come into contact with each other and build up relations whether personal or business. There is a provision of creating a private community on MySpace and share photos, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual friends. We can judge the popularity of these sites by seeing their ranking in Alexa. Orkut has been steadily rising on the Alexa charts but MySpace is still significantly bigger than Orkut.com.
MySpace is for everyone:
1) Friends who want to talk Online
2) Single people who want to meet other Singles
3) Matchmakers who want to connect their friends with other friends
4) Families who want to keep in touch--map your Family Tree
5) Business people and co-workers interested in networking
6) Classmates and study partners
Anyone looking for long lost friends
Facebook and Orkut are two of the most popular social networking sites. Both of them offer very similar features and capabilities.If we compare Facebook vs. Orkut.com from a market share perspective then it will show you that both are considerably behind MySpace with Facebook owning just over 11.5% of the market share and Orkut having less than 1%. Facebook has become very popular in North America over the last few months whereas Orkut is extremely popular in India.
Many people prefer Facebook to orkut as Facebook is a much more professional looking whereas Orkut looks somewhat unfinished,Facebook's Mini Feed feature is useful in seeing a quick snapshot on the latest happenings within your network,the ease at which you can customize layouts within FaceBook, especially the drag and drop option,the ability to supply how you know a person (through school, other friends, work, randomly, etc). This is especially interesting when you and one your contacts know the same person, but through different ways. Creating profiles in such websites for my business hotels, budget hotels, holiday packages is happening good in Alexa traffic details.