Global Social Media Trends

There are many different social media networks used around the world. The most popular and well known network is facebook. What gives facebook its global popularity is being globally local. Facebook has a wide variety of languages and user can interact with others all over the world.  A recent report from Comscore shows that facebook is dominating all but seven countries.  China is one of these seven countries that do not allow facebook. The reason China does not allow facebook is due to censorship laws.  Instead China uses two networks called Qzone and Renren. In the years to come facebook will somehow make its way into China and eventually dominate the globe. Russia is another country that does use facebook but it is not the most popular social media network. The top two social media networks in Russia are Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki, leaving face book at number three. Not only does facebook need to be careful of competitors outside the United States but also inside. Many reports show that twitter is growing in users and is not too far behind facebook. Although there are seven countries that either do not use facebook or do not consider it to be the most popular, in future years to come facebook will make its way into these countries and become number one worldwide.