A preferred social networking site is not only the networking site where people from a specific country are the most numerous, it's also the site where they are the most active. Below is the list of social networking web sites I've come up, with after a few years of being a member of most of them.
- Friendster for Filipinos/Asians
- Myspace for Americans Myspace is extremely popular in the United States but its success doesn't seem to have spread too much worldwide.
- Hi5 for Haitians
- Orkut for Indians and Brazilians I've received spam in Portuguese from Brazilian spammers who found my email through Orkut. I have three Gmail accounts, and the only one on which I receive those "Brazilian" spam messages is the one I use to connect to Orkut. Though I don't have any Brazilian contacts on Orkut, many of the Indian friends I've met online are there with their family, friends and coworkers.
- Perfspot for Turks I've notice a high number of Turkish people on Perfspot, I'm guessing the founders must be Turkish or of Turkish origins.
I personally prefer Friendster for the look and easiness of use, Hi5 for the community, and Orkut for flexibility and control over your information. I'm not a Myspace member and I've only started using Perfspot this year, unless the later go through a major update and aggressive marketing campaign it will die soon enough. I guess it's hard to have all your social networking needs met by only one web site.
How about you? What's your favorite Social Networking Site? Please tell me by living a comment to this post and also remember to specify your country.
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