Facebook is IKEA, MySpace is Las Vegas, Friendster is ASEAN?
June 27, 2007Here is an interesting study by a sociologist who specialized in studying the trend of Facebook and MySpace.
Very funny…
"The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other "good" kids are now going to Facebook.
"MySpace is still home for Latino/Hispanic teens, immigrant teens, "burnouts," "alternative kids," "art fags," punks, emos, goths, gangstas, queer kids, and other kids who didn't play into the dominant high school popularity paradigm.
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Now where does Friendster stand? For me they’re now ASEAN.
But Friendster never went away — its user base just shifted to overseas. Today, more than 70% of Friendster's traffic comes from Southeast Asia. It is the most popular Web site in the Philippines, according to site tracker Alexa. It is No. 2 in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. It has 10 times the registered users it had in 2003 and 20 times the daily page views. And it is growing fast.
