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EMEA growth in Social Networking

UK, France and Germany are leading the way ...

Social networking use set to triple in four years

by Nikki Sandison Brand Republic 02-May-08, 13:30

LONDON - The UK has the highest social networking membership in Europe and it is forecast to almost triple by 2012 to 27m members, according to a report by independent market analyst Datamonitor.

If the forecast is correct, within four years almost half of Britons will belong to a social networking site such as MySpace and Facebook.

Datamonitor said that interaction is the key factor in a network's success and that while the trend is driven by the younger age groups, many older generations are also being drawn to social media.

List of Social Network sites Worldwide

A list from Wikipedia of the main social networking sites, including countries where it is available, number of users and registration info.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

European Social Networking Overview from Forrester

Posted by MindShare Digital Bytes last month:

http://www.mindsharedigitalbytes.com/2008/03/who-does-what-o.html

Are Swedes Europe's best social networkers?

Are you a creator, critic or collector?  Do you know your blogs from your RSS feeds?  Internet research firm Forrester has released a report looking at the key social networking habits of Europeans - who uses what, when and how.

The report looks at consumer engagement with social technologies and profiles them using 6 levels of participation - from complete lack of engagement to heavy engagement in original content creation.  Click here for the levels.

The report also looks at behaviours by country, citing that Sweden has the most active audience and Holland the most creative.  The UK comes out top in the participation stakes with 21% of the population using social networks compared the 13% in Europe as a whole.

Are you a creator, critic or collector?  Do you know your blogs from your RSS feeds?  Internet research firm Forrester has released a report looking at the key social networking habits of Europeans - who uses what, when and how.

The report looks at consumer engagement with social technologies and profiles them using 6 levels of participation - from complete lack of engagement to heavy engagement in original content creation.  Click here for the levels.

The report also looks at behaviours by country, citing that Sweden has the most active audience and Holland the most creative.  The UK comes out top in the participation stakes with 21% of the population using social networks compared the 13% in Europe as a whole.