SA article: Could Government Regulation End The Social Media Growth Story?

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4079224-government-regulation-end-social-media-growth-story


Please see KP INTERNET TRENDS

Slides 329, 336 and 337 = Large dotcom bubble in progress and USA big debt!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/06/kp-internet-trends-2018-next-big-thing.html

MeetMe: 2015 Could Be Huge?

http://seekingalpha.com/article/2875196-meetme-2015-could-be-huge

My Expectations For 2015
MeetMe, Zoosk and others like them will extinguish.
They will evaporate in thin air.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/01/zoosk-lays-off-15-of-staff.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/meetme-as-dying-whale.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/tinder-plus-arrives-in-us-next-month.html

Social dating is vaporware.
The Online Dating Industry does not need any improvement. It does need INNOVATIONS!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/global-dating-insights-2014-industry.html
Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. It needs to reduce the false positives problem.
Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html 
The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

New social net GeoNick Affinity Finder

New social net GeoNick Affinity Finder intended for the Spanish and Latin American market

Nearly nobody uses it yet, but GeoNick is getting lot of press attention.

It is based on finding people with similar interests and geo-location (location awareness) Men will say their main interests are women, money, cars, sports, movies and music. So imagine what will happen. It has the questions and answers feature, like Yahoo answers.
Free users can communicate with others by similar interests but if you pay a fee you can also post ads offering your services o goods to sell (like eBay).

Research on Facebook and other social nets.

Some time ago Academics began to research on Facebook and other social nets to discover new trends in behaviour, like some posters/papers presented in the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference 28-30 January 2010

* "Can you resist the temptation of Facebook: Asymmetrical Facebook-study association predicts academic performance"
* "The Effect of Personality Factors in Predicting Information Disclosure Online"
* "Frequent Facebook Use: Maladaptive Addiction or Healthy Social Strategy?"
* "People or Profiles?: Seeking Out or Warding Off the Perspectives of Others on Facebook"
* "ePersonality: Differential perceptions of personality during online and real-world social interactions"
* "Who are you on Facebook? The role of personality and gender in online social networking sites"
* "Using MySpace increases the endorsement of narcissistic personality traits"
* "Facebook Norms: How People use Facebook to Share and Connect with Others"
* "Personnel Selection, Facebook, and the Dilution Effect: Is More Information Really Better?"


More than a year later, it seems research on social nets is over.
Research had only discovered people who make an intensive use of social nets, had some personality disorders.

Global Map of Social Nets by usage

Behaviour Types:
active social networkers per country (in millions) GREY
% messagers and mailers MAGENTA
% content sharers CYAN
% joiners and creators of groups GREEN

World Map of Social Networks

Tagged, MySpace, Fotolog, Hi5, Sonico

I believe what happened to Tagged, MySpace, Fotolog, Hi5, Sonico and others, but not what is happening with Badoo (I am reviewing it and I will post information soon)