Social Media Sites Available In French
(my notes in a nutshell)
Skyrock
- Aimed at people under 25
- 5th most popular site in France – 7th in world
- 21 million monthly visitors
Viadeo
- Professional service
- Functions in 6 languages
- 1,800,000 members
linternaute copains d avant
- Site in French – I have no idea.
Netlog
- Site in French – I have no idea.
Badoo
- Over 50 million registered users
- Pay to have a more prominent site for limited time
- Like a chat room, dating site and picture rating site disguised as a social network. Doesn’t offer any group or other type of community that allow users to meet similar people
Hi5
- Over 60 million active users
- Like Facebook but with degrees of friends like LinkedIn
- Recognized for being Spam-like – Will gather and contact all your stored email contacts
Ryze
- Designed to link business professionals – esp. entrepreneurs
- 500,000 members in 200 countries
- Positive media mentions
InterNations
- 100,000 users from 230 local InterNations
- Site to address issues like relocation, intercultural competence, cross-cultural communications and everyday life as an expat.
- Members often work abroad for trans- or multinational corporations, go on frequent business trips, form part of their native country’s diplomatic service, provide foreign aid in developing countries, work for intergovernmental organizations, non governmental organizations, as foreign correspondents, have expats as partners, or simply show a huge interest in different cultures
Talkbiznow
- Business Networking Site
- Competitor of both LinkedIn and Xing
- Uses small-world phenomenon
