10 Popular Social Networking Sites Geographic Wise
Have you wondered why in social media conversations the horizon limits to sites like Blog, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Slideshare and some popular bookmarking tools? Reason being: they are globally popular tools and are majorly appreciated and used by the ‘English’ chunk of the market. Social Network Marketing concept is more popular since the era of Facebook evolved there are various regional and national tools that we overrule or do not even consider while making a Geographic specific Social Media Marketing Plan.
Last evening, I was stuck to point thinking there should be many Social Networking tools worldwide that are Nationally popular. My curiosity made me Google a bit and use LinkedIn Question and Answers to kill the aroused curiosity. Below mentioned are the few popular tools that are popular in the specific country in a specific way:
1. SkyRock: SkyRock is a largest Social Networking site in France. You can create your blog and share content that helps you connects with other likeminded individuals. You can login to SkyRock via Facebook also, every blog post you write there the API brings it to Facebook. On a daily basis SkyRock shows 201,616 unique visitors. SkyRock can be accessed in 8 languages of which French is more popular.
2. Tuenti: Tuenti is famous and largest Social Networking site in Spain. In less than three years, Tuenti has grown to become the most-trafficked website in Spain, and one of the chief invite-only websites globally (a concept that rarely works well in the era of speedy inquisitiveness killing). Headquartered in Madrid, Tuenti has an international team made up of individuals from fifteen different nationalities that makes the product unique by itself.
3. Nasza-Klasa.pl: nasza-klasapl is as complicated as its name. It is considered to be the largest and most used Social Networking site of Poland. Thanks to Google translator to help me get the hang of the site. The site is almost equivalent to Facebook with games and applications but yet traditional with old styled forums.
4. IRC-Galleria: IRC Gallery was founder in year 2000 and is considered to be the largest Social Networking Site of Finland. IRC Gallery celebrates 10th year of its success in Finland. Over 5.5 lakh users have registered of which 90% users use it on regular basis. The average age group who use IRC Galleria most is of the age group 18-22. IRC gallery is equivalent to Flickr and creating an account is only possible if at least one of the uploaded image is accepted. Obtaining a VIP status means you can make 10,000 images visible where as regular users can restrict it to 60images only. People can communicate with short messages, comments on photos and communities. Each one of the registered users can join at least 100 communities. These communities are mainly specific to Finland and comments are only visible to those who are logged in.
5. StudiVZ: StudiVZ is the Biggest Social Networking site of Germany which means student’s directory. 17 million users already registered. StudiVZ was founded four years ago in a small flat in Berlin now also includes schuelerVZ.net and meinVZ.net. Students can maintain a personal page containing information about their name, age, study subjects, interests, courses and group memberships within StudiVZ.
6. Xing: Xing is a professional networking tool quite popular in countries like Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy and France. Popularly known to be widely used in Germany. Xing competes with LinkedIn and claims to have professionals from more than 200 countries. Xing has two features Basic and Premium. People can access Xing in different languages and the most popularly used language are French and German.
7. Renrein: Renrein is popularly known to be one amongst the largest Social Networking site built mainly for Chinese individuals as Chinese the only language people can use to be a part of the community. It was formerly known as Xiaonei Network and has got the UI similar to as facebook. Presently, 32,000 universities and colleges, 56,000 high schools and 85,000 companies in China and 1,500 universities in 29 other countries are existing on Xiaonei’s confirmation system.
8. Kaixin001: This can be called as a professional networking tool of China, Kaixin’s users are mostly "white collar middle class" and typically come from a "first tier city." This site in China is extremely popular among people who work for multinational companies, ad agencies and other white collar companies
9. Hyves.nl – Largest SNS in Netherlands. Initially Focused on Italy, France, Germany, the UK, and Spain, Hyves is a popular social networking site in Europe. Hyves is available in six different languages; it offers all the usual amenities of a social networking site, including profiles, blogs, photos etc. I would not say there is anything great here it is almost like other usual Social Networking Sites.
10. Orkut: Orkut is a popular Social Networking tool in India and Brazil. Orkut is popular in Brazil with 54% market share and Orkut in India is the first most popular Social Networking site with more than 18 million registered users.