Facebook From China

Not only China's mobile phone that successfully imitated. China's social networking site Facebook was cloned. But their success and reach tens of millions of its users.

Although there are similarities with Facebook, there is one significant difference from the U.S. social networking site Facebook and social networks of China, such Renren or SNS. China supported the social gaming sites use virtual items. Even popular games on Facebook Farmville also originated from China.

An international business consultant in China-American half-breed who lives in Beijing and worked in one of the leading online video service Youku.com, Kaiser Kuo said there are three leading social networking site in China.

Renren.com is China's most successful social networking. Initially this site as a clone of Facebook and called Xiaonei.com which means 'on campus' in China. In August 2009 the site changed its name to Renren, which means "everyone". Renren has 70 million registered users at present. This site is owned by Oak Pacific Interactive and already has more than U.S. $ 400 million injected by the investor Softbank.

This site was established in December 2005, shortly after Facebook began operating. Its founder Wang Xing later founded Fanfou, clone Twitteryang eventually also very popular.

Physically Xiaonei.com when the start is the cloning of Facebook, with the same color blue and the same layout as well. ReadWriteWeb guest writer Gang Lu wrote in her blog in June 2008, Xiaonei.com when first launched as sederhanadari version of Facebook in the language of China.

He noted the same layout, same color scheme and even the logos are very similar. It makes one wonder whether there is an official relationship with Facebook.

Other social networks are very popular Kaixin001.com. Kaiser says users of social networking is predominantly "white-collar middle class" and biasanyadari big cities.

Kaiser noted that Kaixin001.com very popular among the people who work for multinational companies, advertising agencies, and other white-collar companies. Therefore, this site became valuable because of the relatively rich user base.

The third social networking sites are very popular in China is 51.com. According to Kaiser's service is widely used by people who live in "second cities" as well as rural areas.

Each of the three social networking is very popular in China and has its own niche. Renren as mainstream, Kaixin001 a more prestigious and a populist 51.com.