Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg of his China

Up has been phenomenal and popular these days, ranging from school children to wear up opa-oma. From Fidel Castro to the Dalai Lama have a Facebook account. I was thinking, surely no man who does not know up. It turned my thoughts were wrong.

There are 1.3 billion people on earth are not familiar with Facebook, which is the Chinese people. They lived behind thick walls (firewalls), internet is installed by the Chinese government. It is said that there are some people rich and master computer technology that can break into your firewall, of course including the famous Chinese hackers.

Installation of a firewall is done by the Chinese government is not without purpose. The main goal for the country's defense. The next goal to maximize the use of local products (homemade).

Everything is selling its Chinese version. Ranging from food and beverage products to motorcycle, all of its Chinese version is available. Or, call Chiphone China-iPhone version. Any duplicate items produced there is intended for the Chinese people only eat and use goods that made their own.

Thus, the trade balance deficit can be reduced to the lowest ketitik (because they are not a lot of imported goods). Proven tactics that make the Chinese economy is now a very stable, even able to shake the United States.

Back to the main topic (up). Then how do they communicate? Do they use the gong?

Of course not. His name is not Chinese if they do not have the goods made by their own results. They have their own Internet network that connects the Chinese community with one another. Includes network of friends. Up version of China!

RenRen (up his China)

In the midst of China's economic progress, of course, modernity is also unavoidable. There were two social networking sites are very popular, used by almost all Chinese people (who have an internet connection of course). His name RenRen and Kaixin001.

RenRen that target the segment of students and students attended since 2005. The Kaixin001 that target young Chinese professionals attended since 2008. In between the two was, RenRen very similar to up-architecture pages, design layout, until the color (blue-white).

According to my relatives who went to work in Beijing nyambi there, in many ways, Chinese society activities in social media is very similar to Singapore and our people in Indonesia.

Office employees who work using computers to interact in social media (RenRen and Kaixin001) throughout the day. Home office, until the house is still online using the HP. Update status, comments, like, share, same as us on Facebook.

Opa-oma did not miss. They planted potatoes, tomatoes, in his RenRen Farmville. Of course it's not Farmville. Yes Farmville was probably similar.

There is little difference. It is said that people in mainland China there are more aggressive and actively communicate in RenRen or Kaixin001, compared to Facebook users from other countries. Perhaps the number of status and comments they make in a day to reach twice the amount made by the average person in Indonesia we are using up. Hmm ... mean intensity similar to those of Singapore.

Like Facebook, the growth of the number of users RenRen was reputedly very rapidly. With a population reached 1.3 billion people-nearly a third of people online worldwide, RenRen claimed about 165 million users. While Kaixin001 only 95 million.

A study was published by Netpop (San Francisco). The study shows, social media two times greater influence on purchase decisions of Internet users in China than any other site. That's incredible. Many world famous brands (Apple, BMW, Estée Lauder, Lay's, and others) prefer to advertise in RenRen or Kaixin001 than on Facebook or Twitter.

Wang Xing (China Mark Zuckerberg her?)

Originally, Facebook was named Xiaonei la China (meaning "on campus"), made by a young man named Wang Xing, graduated from Tsinghua University (China's MIT him hehehe ..., is not duplicated by the Chinese everything hehe ...). In 2003, Wang Xing PhD education drop out of Delaware University (United States) and returned to Beijing to make Friendster's Chinese version, but failed. Two years later, Wang Xing hear about up and decided to make a duplicate (read: up version of China), which he calls Xiaonei.

Initially, according to Wang Xing, Xiaonei made to create a better world, especially the world of college (University of Tsinghua, what this means). With a capital of 300,000 renminbi (about 45,000 U.S. dollars), Wang Xing invite two colleagues to set up Xiaonei in 2005.

Within a few days to gather direct Xiaonei 4000 members. It is said that a few months after that, to coincide with Chinese New Year, Xiaonei chartering buses to bring thousands of its members who had to return home in the various regions in mainland China.

These differences Wang Xing with Mark Zuckerberg. Wang Xing Mark Zuckerberg was not China. (According to my friend, the Chinese also know the real Mark Zuckerberg really ... ha ha ha ha).

In 2006, Xiaonei sold to Oak Pacific Interactive with a value of about 4 million U.S. dollars. Maybe Wang Xing thought, money 4 million U.S. dollars has been very much at that time. Yes, obviously very much compared to their capital which is only 45,000 U.S. dollars. But be very small compared with the value RenRen Xionei now called by its new owner.

Say these copies up-work of their Western coffee, adjust, add, modify, and so on up to create a social networking site called RenRen and Kaixin001. Social media site that accompanies the modern history of Chinese people toward beradaban more freedom of expression, apart from the massive infringement of copyright (copyright) by the Chinese community there. (Kompasiana / Gustavo Bob)

Source: Kompasiana

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