15 February, 2010

Friendship networks of locally made in China as Weibo, more flying and took a lot of members after their competitors from outside such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube censored government.

Weibo addition, there are instant messaging services and video sharing such as QQ and Youku also booming. As we all know, Twitter and Facebook was blocked by the government of China since July 2009.

"Government of China has been pursing social networking on a small local companies, so easily controlled," said Xiao Qiang of China Digital Times based monitoring sites in the United States, as reported by AsiaOne, Friday (12/2/2010).

However, the development of local social networks by the government remains wary of China. Because the network of friends can mobilize especially in terms of criticizing the government kebijakkan.

Some analysts expressed, the development of local networking sites could not be influenced by blocking Facebook or Twitter.

"While Facebook was blocked, they also can not compete with local networks such as Kaixin, Youku and others," said Duan Hongbin IT analyst from Anbound Consulting.

"Look, Baidu and Google, although Google has a better technology but people prefer Baidu. It's not about nationalism, but the language is a major factor, users in China prefer China because the language is more familiar," he added.

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