Social Media Use in China: More Facebook than Facebook

by Sifan Ouyang

The Facebook network is over 640 million users strong and still growing, according to the 2011 infographic “World Map of Social Networks.” But there is more to the world of social media than Facebook.

Facebook users rank top three in all parts of the World Map of Social Network except for in a few countries like China and Brazil. Source: Ria Novosti, en.rian.ru

Widely known as the Chinese version of Facebook, Renren, which literally means “Everyone’s Website,” has been leading the country of China into a social media craze among college students since 2005, one year after Facebook premiered.

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