I created my profiles in LinkedIn sometimes in late 2004 and in Facebook around early 2007. I think they have both shared similar concepts of connecting people but perhaps with different layouts & approaches, they somehow attract different groups of users.
LinkedIn kicked in quite early but somehow it was presented as a matrual, sophisticated networks for professionals. Lots of my telco folks, mainly Europeans, came aroud and adopted this quite quickly, to my amaze. I even got a few hunters contacting me via LinkedIn. Interesting!
Facebook, at the other hands, was late, but with a much younger look, and with more "hangout and funky" type of activities. My Internet colleagues, US mainly, recently adoptes it, and it's coming like a wave, and already within a few months, it starts to have some effects. After all, the media has loved Facebook, and with all the publicity of M&As, it's becoming a shining star.
Well, I think no matter it's LinkedIn or Facebook, people here in Taiwan or China don't seem to quite adopt them yet. Perhaps it's still the language issue. Or, unlike the western, we don't really perfer to use our own real names (but maybe I was wrong, since the south Korean, cyworld users use their own real names). Somtimes I doubt if our users' behavior is the casue of a collected cultural way of thinking in this particular socieity? Or the other way around? Perhaps that we, as an Internet developer, is actually creating the culture for our own community as it is today. At the same time, I wonder, who will be the next "Chinese language" Internet leader, that can move faster and catch this "already known" social networking winner here. At all, in Internet, time to market sometimes is everything.
I certaily hope my company is the one that is faster than the others this time....
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Sunday August 5, 2007 - 07:21am (PDT)
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