MySpace, Facebook and, to a smaller degree, Bebo may be getting most of the attention, but social-networking sites geared toward hobbies, sports and other specific interests -- alongside those targeting certain age groups, ethnicities or diseases -- are finding growing success as supplements to the larger online hangouts or even as replacements....
Sites with specific niches will always have an advantage over sites like Myspace and Facebook.
Most people I know who use Myspace are getting bored with it because they can't find anything worthwhile to do (other than look at other people's profiles, or listen to starving artists' music.)
ambellina
1:37 pm on Apr 18, 2008 (gmt 0)
I despise MySpace. Who needs that many high school kids to send them offers for free ringtones?
Of course, I'm so out of the social networking loop that I haven't run across any of these Niche-Book/Space type places. Sounds cool! As long as they keep the "free" offer spam out, of course.
piatkow
3:21 pm on Apr 18, 2008 (gmt 0)
I found a brilliant social networking site last night which even downloaded beer. The only problem was that I had to switch the PC off and get out of the house.
There is a huge body of niche forums and newsgroups. If some of these are starting to move into newer web technology it isn't exactly suprising.
