The Top 10 List for Nerds
Nielsen Ratings of Social Networking Sites PDF
According to Nielsen Ratings, MySpace, Blogger, Classmates Online, YouTube, and MSN Groups are the upper echelon of social networking sites as of April 2006.
Blogging sites took 3 of the top 10 spots which is somewhat shocking to me but then again I am new to the whole blogging thing so I wouldn't know alot of people that do it in the first place.
I was also surprised to see Classmates online in the list since by the sheer number of ads that they have online I always assumed they were struggling to get people to join...obviously that was wrong haha.
Surprisingly absent is Facebook, which seems so prevalent in the University setting but then again there is a world outside of UNC (shocking, I know). It will be interesting to see if Facebook climbs this list after it opens to the public as a competition to MySpace.
It is also interesting to note that many in the Top 10 also appear to have the best retention rates of users. Facebook is in this list as well which isn't surprising since I know that if I left my friends would be mad that they had to call or IM me to get in touch with me (it's a lot more effort).
Either way, this is an interesting survey of what everyone is looking at online and which sorts of sites prevail in the end in tallying the most users.
Blogging sites took 3 of the top 10 spots which is somewhat shocking to me but then again I am new to the whole blogging thing so I wouldn't know alot of people that do it in the first place.
I was also surprised to see Classmates online in the list since by the sheer number of ads that they have online I always assumed they were struggling to get people to join...obviously that was wrong haha.
Surprisingly absent is Facebook, which seems so prevalent in the University setting but then again there is a world outside of UNC (shocking, I know). It will be interesting to see if Facebook climbs this list after it opens to the public as a competition to MySpace.
It is also interesting to note that many in the Top 10 also appear to have the best retention rates of users. Facebook is in this list as well which isn't surprising since I know that if I left my friends would be mad that they had to call or IM me to get in touch with me (it's a lot more effort).
Either way, this is an interesting survey of what everyone is looking at online and which sorts of sites prevail in the end in tallying the most users.
