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Re: Facebook Experiences Explosive Growth in Europe

magia3e — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:17:29 -0000

Actually, figures out from Forrester on European use of social networking sites suggests that Germany's and France's use is quite low when compared to other countries like the UK and Sweden.

http://magia3e.wordpress.com/2007/09/16/cultura...

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Re: Facebook Experiences Explosive Growth in Europe

DanPeg — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:36:01 -0000

I am not sure about your assertion about room to grow in Germany... They have a Facebook clone that is immensely popular:

http://www.studivz.net/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/03/german-fac...

As long as Facebook does not Internationalize and change offer their site in different languages, they will have a weak offering for any non-Anglophone country.

Re: Facebook Experiences Explosive Growth in Europe

Paul Neave — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:31:12 -0000

Perhaps the biggest reason Germany and other European countries have not embraced Facebook is due to the language barrier. Facebook is ostensibly an English-language website. Hopefully if they can expand their site into other languages more Europeans (and other non-English speakers) will join up.

Re: Facebook Experiences Explosive Growth in Europe

treyp — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:09:13 -0000

you're probably having trouble reaching that other site because you're spelling it wrong -- no 'n' in badoo. looks like another social networking site.

Re: Facebook Experiences Explosive Growth in Europe

Yancey — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:51:30 -0000

I started two new apps a week ago and I have been watching the networks of people who have used them.

I've seen users from: Bahamas, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada, India, Poland, London, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Venezuela, New Zealand, England, Australia, Spain, Turkey, Serbia, Bolivia, Philippines, France, Japan, Bangladesh, China, South Africa, Greece, Malaysia, Switzerland, Venezuela, Antigua, Federation of Saint Kitts & Nevis, Egypt, Bermuda, Nepal, Thailand

During this first week it was about 50/50 USA/other parts of the world. Canada made up at least 10% of the "other parts of the world."

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