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There is so much social-networking news these days that I thought you might prefer them in a collection of little bytes:

  • Extended families may be interested in social networking specifically for them. Two examples written up in AppScout are Famster.com and TheFamilyPost.com, where families can share photos privately (CNET has a video about Famster).
  • University students may be interested in TheCollegeLife.com, an alternative to Facebook, the No. 2 social-networking site (after MySpace). According to this reporter at DePaul University’s newspaper, “on a College Life profile, rather than one extended page, there is a series of tabs that each hold a different category: profile, blog, photos, favorites, event calendar and a completely new category: the wishlist.”
  • Parents worldwide may be interested in what this mom in Oz says about teen self-exposure in blogs (she chooses not to read her daughter’s): “They’re doing exactly what we did at their age, even if we did it through physical space – the telephone and the diary. But what’s shocking to us is the extent of self-exposure they embrace. These kids live their lives online, but to their parents it feels like public nudity.” Don’t miss her whole thoughtful commentary in the Sydney Morning Herald.
  • As for the numbers: Agence France Presse reports that “visits to social-networking websites climbed 11.5% February with big surges in popularity seen in smaller players.” Traffic to MySpace, which got 80% of social-networking visits, rose 10.2% and to Facebook, 9.1%. Visits to Buzznet and iMeem (which each had less than 1% of social-networking traffic in February), more than doubled, AFP cited Hitwise as saying.
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