social networks

Hello mates!
Allways wanted to ask any foreign person if his county has any global social network?
I also heard about facebook and so on, but it's for english-speaking people, right? So what about german, italian, french.. do you have it?
Why I ask? In Russia we have one REALLY popular social network "vkontakte" (translate: "incontact" ) and it has 50000000 registered users. As for me it's really global one! Or I'm wrong? So do you have such big social networks too?

I think Facebook is pretty global & I have some Chinese friends who have no problem using it...

力

here in italy where even winter is hot
we have facebook 2 and there r a lot of users another thing i know is that in romania they have Hi5 and the a big part if not all of the romanian chatters r there

even thought i don't use them

yep - here in germany is Facebook very common too
... andy studiVZ - schülerVZ aso. aso. aso. ....

Oh, I thought that facebook is only on english...

facebook is famous and very used in EUROPE and probably more in the US and Asia
strange russia doesn't use it that much or it's u that didn't know that much about it m8

Nope, my friends don't do it too. Whole Russia uses vkontakte.
No reason to use facebook. Just imagine, 50 millions of users who speak on the same language with you. It's bigger than many countries

facebook here as well. there is another one used in Poland - nasza-klasa.pl (our class), helluva popular here, tho U won't find me on it ^^ and one more - first social portal in Poland, old but still popular - grono.net (grape).
I don't feel any need to be a part of that kind, when I want to be in contact with someone, I have it without using thatkind of portals. one exception - U peepz
oh and ppl use also myspace.

Yes, I don't like such sites too, but now I somehow has to use it. Vkontakte was made not as usual social network, it was made only for students and universities, so all my social student work is there, in vkontakte.

that is how in germany the VZ stuff began.. VZ is short for Verzeichnis (german word for "register")

it all started with StudiVZ made for students and was than upgraded by SchülerVZ (schüler=pupil) and by MeinVZ (mein=my)

StudiVZ and SchülerVZ are very commonly used amongst students and pupils but the older generation for example my parents, my grandparents, their friends, guys from my hockey team , and so on use "Wer-Kennt-Wen" ("who-knows-whom")

facebook is also very popular but i guess it is not used as much as the german networks. for the same reason of the language used...

myself.. i hate those networks but accepted them as a very good medium to keep track of your friendships... sounds stupid.. but the only thing i hate more than social network communication is actually calling someone by phone

[edit] did some fact research and found out that StudiVZ at the moment has 15.5 x10^6 user.
wer-kennt-wen is used by approx. 7x10^6 user and is the social network in germany on which visitors spend most of their time oO [/edit]

May I have a link for this german network? (if it has english part)

http://www.meinvz.net/

studiVZ itself doesn't seem to exist in english anymore oO


http://www.wer-kennt-wen.de
is german only

Oh, then no chance for me even to watch through main page... danke anyway

To the other ones really small..

Here in Bavaria lokalisten.de is kinda poular but it only has around 4-5million users

I personally loathe those sites - they have a doubtful privacy policy and are often used to mob or hassle certain members (at least here in germany it has become a *huge* problem). Also one should never forget that these networks were created not to bring people together, but simply to make money = track peoples interest and spam them.

Another (german only) community which is extremely popular is http://www.jappy.de/. One of my very first admin-jobs was working there, and I got so disgusted by their policy that I quit after not even a week.

oh oh oh - http://www.jappy.de/ - isn´t that the website on which dirty old man lookin´ for some sweet little sixteens?

btw. Welcome to Prophets forum •Sophie• - have a nice stay

Su

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oh oh oh - http://www.jappy.de/ - isn´t that the website on which dirty old man lookin´ for some sweet little sixteens?

Ha, very true, yes! Though if I remember correctly, you may even only be 14 to become a member (or at least be able to act as if you are 14 already...).

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btw. Welcome to Prophets forum •Sophie• - have a nice stay

Oh thank you Su - I have registered here some time ago already but now finally found a thread in which I can somehow participate. I will do my best to behave nicely and not talk too much about dirty ol' men hunting teenage jailbait.