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I noticed that two sites we have developed in the past (chat/dating site and food review site) had much better acceptance in Mexico, Brazil, Netherlands, etc. than in US.
First we thought this is just a western anglo-saxon thing, but we also have much higher acceptance in UK.
It seems like that users in US are not early adopters. Did anybody noticed the same trend?
Just tried it a little. The main thing I dislike is the extreme superficiality. On most parts of the site where you meet new people, you only see the image and the age, but no interests etc. I mean come on -- to decide whether I want to meet someone, the image is really saying close to nothing.
"Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?" -- jwz, http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html Which is to say, selling sex has always been a nice business.
Maybe, but it is a horrible use case. Or rather it is too limiting as people now only focus on young males rather than, say, really sexy software for businesses. The 22 year old market is, comparatively, over-saturated.
"Does Andreev have Facebook in his sights? "Badoo is more of a social network than Facebook, as on Facebook you interact with your existing friends in an absolutely virtual life," he says. "Badoo is more social: it provokes you to go down on the street and meet these people.""
I hope the next phase in social networking is actually centered around meeting new people. I don't know if Badoo will be the winner here (I doubt it), but some company will be able to win big by helping people meet new people.
Are all users listed real? (That is, not generated by Badoo?) It just feels kinda fake when looking through the list of accounts in my city (with a somewhat "small" population of ~50k, 814 Badoo accounts) that there is a lot of users. More than I anticipated for a service which I, as a person very interested in technology, did not even know about. Some of the pictures look very legit (with car-plates matching the cou…
My source: I worked for an online dating company for 2 years.
This quote is noteworthy: "Does Andreev have Facebook in his sights? "Badoo is more of a social network than Facebook, as on Facebook you interact with your existing friends in an absolutely virtual life," he says. "Badoo is more social: it provokes you to go down on the street and meet these people."" I hope the next phase in social networking is actually centered around meeting new people. I don't know if Badoo wil…
I'm finding Google+ is oriented around that. It's basically Twitter, where you can meet people on the network without knowing them IRL first, but with longer more substantial conversations.
Just tried it a little. The main thing I dislike is the extreme superficiality. On most parts of the site where you meet new people, you only see the image and the age, but no interests etc. I mean come on -- to decide whether I want to meet someone, the image is really saying close to nothing.
When you're trying to pick up someone in a bar, do you talk to every possible girl, or just the most attractive ones?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you're trying to pick up someone in a bar, do you talk to every possible girl, or just the most attractive ones?
I'm confident your opinion represents many (most?) men. Personally I dislike this superficiality though. I'm not picking up girls by randomly selecting the pretty ones in a bar. I'm meeting interesting women primarily through shared passions, hobbies, sports, activities, hackerspaces and otherwise with at least a bit of context.
| the free-to-use network [..] is a mass phenomenon in Brazil (14.1 million members), Mexico (nine million), France (8.2 million), Spain (6.5 million) and Italy (six million) Does anyone have any insight as to why Brazil is such a target for fringe social networks? I find it interesting that first Orkut and now Badoo have a major stake in that market and practically none in Western Europe.
I'm not sure if it makes sense to call them "fringe". Orkut is mainstream in Brazil (though Facebook is about as popular now), just as Facebook in the US and Mixi in Japan. Also note that Brazil has a large number of internet users, around 40 million. So Brazil is also a big target for auction sites, e-commerce, games, phone apps, etc. It just so happens that people don't hear much about those sites outside Brazil. I…