Social Networking between China and the world

Have you noticed there are several articles on China in the “SNO course library”, “Article”folder which Prof. Tunnard provided? China is always a big topic, by all kinds of reasonsJ.

Everyone is familiar with Amazon, how about Alibaba in China? Alibaba is the biggest competitor of Amazon in China and maybe later in the international market, and it’s going public. Alibaba has made a lot of miracles in Chinese market, but definitely it will face huge challenges in the oversea market, one reason, you can image, is the Chinese Website unblock policy. (read more in the article: Alibaba The world's greatest bazaar)

You may not find many Chinese friends on your Facebook or Twitter, as these websites were blocked since 2009, instead, similar social networks in China as Sina Weibo, WeChat have quite larger customers base. You can quickly have a look at the rankings of customers last year(Oct. 30, 2013) or find the article here: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-worlds-largest-social-networks-2013-12

  Facebook (1.15 billion MAUs)

  YouTube (1 billion MAUs)

  Qzone (712 million total users), China

  Sina Weibo (500 million total users), China

  WhatsApp (350 million MAUs)

  Google+ (327 million MAUs)

  Tumblr (300 million monthly unique visitors)

  LINE (275 million total active users), Japan

  Twitter (240 million MAUs)

  WeChat (236 million MAUs), China

The good thing is that there will be a free trade zone in Shanghai to unblock these websites, to make foreigners ”feel like at home”, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg once said making Facebook available in China is keeping in with his company’s goal of connecting the world.  Let’s expecting it! 

(read article here:  http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/24/us-china-facebook-idUSBRE98N04020130924 )

Guoying Wang (M14)  HHL