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rfmcdonaldFacebook's triumph, it seems, is not worldwide. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lpetrazickis linked to an interesting chart showing the different countries where Facebook is not the dominant social networking system.
These eight countries are the only ones, out of 41, where Facebook is not the dominant social networking system. In some countries, Facebook is easily surpassed by other systems--Orkut in Brazil, VKontakte in Russia, CyWorld in South Korea--while in others like India (Orkut), Taiwan (Wretch.cc), and the Netherlands (Hyves) Facebook comes close to the local social networking system.
I'm curious: Will Facebook overcome these local social networking systems in their homeland, too, just as MySpace has been surpassed in the United States? Or will some of these systems--I'm thinking particularly of Orkut, VKontakte, and CyWorld, which seem to be well-embedded in their countries/societies--avoid being replaced and manage to co-exist alongside Facebook?
lpetrazickis linked to an interesting chart showing the different countries where Facebook is not the dominant social networking system.These eight countries are the only ones, out of 41, where Facebook is not the dominant social networking system. In some countries, Facebook is easily surpassed by other systems--Orkut in Brazil, VKontakte in Russia, CyWorld in South Korea--while in others like India (Orkut), Taiwan (Wretch.cc), and the Netherlands (Hyves) Facebook comes close to the local social networking system.
I'm curious: Will Facebook overcome these local social networking systems in their homeland, too, just as MySpace has been surpassed in the United States? Or will some of these systems--I'm thinking particularly of Orkut, VKontakte, and CyWorld, which seem to be well-embedded in their countries/societies--avoid being replaced and manage to co-exist alongside Facebook?
