In my Iphone, there are 4 social networking softwares(SNS) and 3 instant massage softwares(IM). They conclude Twitter, Facebook, Renren(Chinese SNS like Facebook), Sina(Chinese software like Twitter), MSN, Skype and QQ(same as MSN). Thanks to APPLE for invented the "PUSH", so iphone can push the massage to the dashboard, that I can check the newest massages from my social network website. With this, I do not need to keep my MSN and QQ always online.
"The Social network" a film about the Facebook's story, now is a popular film all around the world. A friend told me, he and his girlfriend went to see the film together and after that, his girlfriend treated him better than before, I wonder why. He, a computer greek, said his girlfriend told him that Zuckerberg is a greek too. Facebook must be the hottest website in the university students' laptop. I can see people accesses Facebook anywhere anytime. In China, for some reason you must known, we can't access the Facebook and Youtube, but we have a SNS called Renren (means "everybody"), it is very similar with Facebook, and with only 2 years, it became the most popular SNS in China. I think people is tired of keep their IM software always online, and return the massage on time. These actions cut their time to pieces. With SNS, we can share music and video to our friends, talk with them on some popular topics, and post comments to friend's photos and blogs.
After that, I think the biggest advantage of SNS is we can get the massage on time, but we needn't reply right now. We can focus on our case first, and reply them when free. It also avoids a lot of ADs from strangers.
Maybe the SNS is in the best time, and WEB 2.0 is turning to a trend, there is a lot of opportunities for IT company to achieve a success. But you must be unique, like Facebook, you must have your trump weapon.
Even if the sns is available to China only, the major feture of the web is the opportunity to share with more people your ideas.
回覆刪除I hope you all get the opportunity to conect to the open world even if you are in China because that open up the world to a real free market!
Social networking is rapidly changing from a way to simply keep in touch with old friends, to now being able to have conference calls and make presentations through websites. The idea of "the office" goes along with this as well, as more and more items are becoming available on the internet. I will not say whether I think this is a good or bad thing, but regardless of your opinion, the technology wave is happening and we must adapt to it quickly.
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