Chinese Internet Users Prefer Portals Over Social Networking Sites

While almost the rest of the web surfing world have spent hours and hours of the day at social networking sites, Chinese Internet users don’t share the same passion. This is the result of a study conducted by comScore Media Metrix service. Instead of social networking websites many of us have become addicted to, Chinese users spent more time on portals — sites that provide a collection of content from various sources — accounting for 24.4 per cent of total time in Greater China, which includes Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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Understanding Facebook’s New Social Context Metric

In Facebook, it is normal to see ads, but once we see some of them being ‘Liked’ by friends, it is normal to ask what’s the impact of liking such ad. Now, as Facebook unveils its latest social media metrics, we are seeing answers to these questions.

A few days ago, Facebook launched a new metric that measures how friend connections react to the same ads we see displayed on Facebook.


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12 Annoying Things About Facebook

1. Automated Friend Suggestions
Facebook pretends to know who my friends are by making suggestions on “Friends You May Know”. This is probably based on my current friends and on what they are doing right now. While this feature provides good matches (like skipped web mail contacts), most in my list are totally unknown strangers. I am sure that we have other ways to find that long lost friend (allowing FB to access your email contacts, looking at your friend’s friends or simply using that search function) but not through that Friend Finder suggestion feature. One solution, remove your contacts.

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