Chapter 12: Facebook Dominates Global Social Nets – For Now{0}
This week’s chapter reading is on Globalization, Innovation and the 21st Century Organizational Trends, and one of the biggest trends in this current time is social networking sites. According to an article on PC World, Facebook is dominating the social networking sites. I have always been a fan of the Facebook social networking site, especially when it first started out as as site just for college students to connect with one another from different campuses. During that time, you had to have a campus email address to prove that you were a college student to be able to sign up for membership. About a year or two ago, Facebook opened its doors to the greater world and allowed membership to just about everyone and anybody. Since then, Facebook has been a growing site with millions of members globally. Other sites like Myspace, Hi5 and Bebo are known in different countries and are huge in different parts of the world. Myspace is well known in the United States, Hi5 is very well known and huge in Latin America, while Bebo is highly used in Europe and its residents. Facebook, however, remains the one site that is being used everywhere gloabally. For businesses that are trying to get their brand names and products well known to the world, Facebook is a great way to get the word out. Many organizations use Facebook to talk about issues and events that are approaching and it has proven to be very successful. Other sites like Orkut are losing a lot of its members in India to Facebook, so to help businesses become more successful, they should look into creating a page or profile on Facebook to further the mission of their business.
The article can be found here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/174293/facebook_dominates_global_social_nets_for_now.html