What are the social networks compete with Facebook? They are Bebo, Friend-star, MySpace, Twitter, Linkedin, Xing, Blogger, Tagged, My Yearbook, LiveJournal, SlashKey, Gaia Online, Seesmic, Etsy, Dopplr, Moshimonsters and so on.
The below chart shows a huge disparity between Facebook and the other social networking sites in terms of unique visits. Facebook is the only obvious site that is experiencing an upward trending growth while others clustered at the bottom of the chart. LinkedIn and Twitter also appear to be growing at a steady pace but definitely in a different league from Facebook.
Regardless, both Twitter and LinkedIn serve different needs and aren’t much of a threat to Facebook. LinkedIn (professional networking) and Twitter (mirco-blogging) are two successful product differentiation examples.
Facebook and Twitter:
Twitter is the most popular site between the microblog sites. It presents its users writing texts of 140 characters about everything that users want. However Facebook is being used by lots of countries. Further its average load time is faster than Twitter which average load time is 2.655 seconds. Demographics of Twitter are that it is more popular between 25 and 34 age group than the others. But Facebook is more popular between 18 and 24 age group.
Similarities between Facebook and Twitter are that most of the users visit the sites from google.com, users consists of college and graduate school students generally, females represent them more than males and people who has no children represent them. Twitter™ is like the simplistic, easy-going cousin of the complex, multi-tasking Facebook™. Allowing its users to snippets of information as brief status updates and not elaborate descriptions of life, Twitter™ keeps things simple. There are "Followers" and "Followings" on Twitter™, which would be comparable to Facebook's™ "Friends," and there are direct messages that are also limited to 140 characters - which are comparable to "Messages" on Facebook™. Twitter limits the contact between people and the information shared - making it very different from the other all-encompassing social network. Twitter also has an iPhone™ application and TwitterBerry™, the Twitter™ application for Blackberry™.
Facebook and MySpace:
Facebook vs MySpace most people who are active on social networking sites have a profile on both MySpace and Facebook. However, despite being on both sites, each user almost always has a preference for one site over the other. That's due to the fact that there are some significant differences between the two networking sites and the people who are most active on them.
MySpace began with a big preference for teenagers whereas Facebook was designed specifically for college students. (When it first started, you even needed a college email address to sign up with Facebook.) As the two sites have grown up, their users have changed. These days, teens may be on either site. And college students turn up on both of them as well. Where the real differences lie now is in the professionals who are networking on the sites. Facebook has a number of different professionals who are on the site for networking and job hunting. If you're a career professional in the computer or business fields, Facebook is more your game. That's not to say that there aren't professionals on MySpace. However, they tend to be involved in more creative careers. Musicians, comedians and fashion designers are easy to find on MySpace.
Facebook has MySpace beat hands down for the number of applications that you can use on the site. In fact, new applications are being designed on a regular basis for Facebook, many of which assist with the professional networking that takes place on the site. If all of those applications are too confusing for you, you might want to stick with MySpace. Despite the fact that there are plenty of applications for Facebook, the types of designs that you can have on your own profile page are somewhat limited. Most Facebook pages look basically the same at a first glance. In contrast, it's possible to really alter your MySpace profile so that it looks completely unique. People who want to show off their creative tendencies are likely to find that MySpace makes that a little bit easier to do. Moreover, Spam doesn't seem to be a problem on Facebook whereas it can be quite a headache on MySpace. People hack MySpace profiles and send viruses to their friends on the site. If you don't want to deal with spam, Facebook is currently the place for you.
Facebook and Google:
The below chart shows a huge disparity between Facebook and the other social networking sites in terms of unique visits. Facebook is the only obvious site that is experiencing an upward trending growth while others clustered at the bottom of the chart. LinkedIn and Twitter also appear to be growing at a steady pace but definitely in a different league from Facebook.
Regardless, both Twitter and LinkedIn serve different needs and aren’t much of a threat to Facebook. LinkedIn (professional networking) and Twitter (mirco-blogging) are two successful product differentiation examples.
Facebook and Twitter:
Twitter is the most popular site between the microblog sites. It presents its users writing texts of 140 characters about everything that users want. However Facebook is being used by lots of countries. Further its average load time is faster than Twitter which average load time is 2.655 seconds. Demographics of Twitter are that it is more popular between 25 and 34 age group than the others. But Facebook is more popular between 18 and 24 age group.
Similarities between Facebook and Twitter are that most of the users visit the sites from google.com, users consists of college and graduate school students generally, females represent them more than males and people who has no children represent them. Twitter™ is like the simplistic, easy-going cousin of the complex, multi-tasking Facebook™. Allowing its users to snippets of information as brief status updates and not elaborate descriptions of life, Twitter™ keeps things simple. There are "Followers" and "Followings" on Twitter™, which would be comparable to Facebook's™ "Friends," and there are direct messages that are also limited to 140 characters - which are comparable to "Messages" on Facebook™. Twitter limits the contact between people and the information shared - making it very different from the other all-encompassing social network. Twitter also has an iPhone™ application and TwitterBerry™, the Twitter™ application for Blackberry™.
Facebook and MySpace:
Facebook vs MySpace most people who are active on social networking sites have a profile on both MySpace and Facebook. However, despite being on both sites, each user almost always has a preference for one site over the other. That's due to the fact that there are some significant differences between the two networking sites and the people who are most active on them.
MySpace began with a big preference for teenagers whereas Facebook was designed specifically for college students. (When it first started, you even needed a college email address to sign up with Facebook.) As the two sites have grown up, their users have changed. These days, teens may be on either site. And college students turn up on both of them as well. Where the real differences lie now is in the professionals who are networking on the sites. Facebook has a number of different professionals who are on the site for networking and job hunting. If you're a career professional in the computer or business fields, Facebook is more your game. That's not to say that there aren't professionals on MySpace. However, they tend to be involved in more creative careers. Musicians, comedians and fashion designers are easy to find on MySpace.
Facebook has MySpace beat hands down for the number of applications that you can use on the site. In fact, new applications are being designed on a regular basis for Facebook, many of which assist with the professional networking that takes place on the site. If all of those applications are too confusing for you, you might want to stick with MySpace. Despite the fact that there are plenty of applications for Facebook, the types of designs that you can have on your own profile page are somewhat limited. Most Facebook pages look basically the same at a first glance. In contrast, it's possible to really alter your MySpace profile so that it looks completely unique. People who want to show off their creative tendencies are likely to find that MySpace makes that a little bit easier to do. Moreover, Spam doesn't seem to be a problem on Facebook whereas it can be quite a headache on MySpace. People hack MySpace profiles and send viruses to their friends on the site. If you don't want to deal with spam, Facebook is currently the place for you.
Facebook and Google:
Over the last couple of years, Google has tried to better establish itself in online social networking due to the intensifying threat from rivals like Facebook, but its offerings haven’t really been as widely embraced by consumers as the company has hoped. Most recently, about a year ago, Google released Google Wave, a real-time asynchronous communication, collaboration, and social networking platform that brought email, real-time chat with voice and video, and social networking all in one place – the first of its kind – yet the service has too not become as popular. Only less than a year after general availability, Google announced early last August that it would stop Wave development, and said it intended to keep the service available at least until the end of this year. Despite Google’s marginal results in social networking, the company remains very well positioned strategically to develop a complete social network if it can correctly integrate some of its popular products that millions of people already use and rely on daily. And right now, it appears Google will finally utilize already popular products to leverage itself into social networking by adding layers of social networking elements into some of its properties, like YouTube, starting as early as this November.
Google will subsequently launch a new social network called Google ME, which will be the most comprehensive social network built by the company, and could actually become a real substitute to Facebook. Our source, which spoke on condition of anonymity because the plans were not made public, knowing people familiar with the project, told us that users could centrally upload and share content, as well as access information from other social networks like Twitter, play multiplayer games with social elements, and create groups of friends with different privacy settings. Furthermore, if enabled, friends would be able to see search queries, and search results could be optimized based on friend contributions. Additionally, Google ME will be integrated with key Google products, including Gmail, Voice, and Docs, among other products.
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