Checking out facebook or twitter updates about a colleague's family outing, or the latest hangout of your friends somewhere in the US or being flooded by photographs of someone's office party or status reports on photographs that interest you least, might not really be everyone's cup of tea.
More and more were now gravitating towards niche social networking sites that allow people sharing similar interest, professional concerns or passion to network closely.
Sharing trivia about football heroes; getting serious over dwindling statistics on forest cover, discussing medical research published the latest journal, could all be shared and lived through the niche social networking sites, the internet platform for "meeting of minds".
"There is lot of hype around the Big 3—Twitter, Facebook and Orkut. But with changing user expectations, and with the advancement in the social media, there is a new trend emerging called niche social networks.
"Niche networking is a step ahead to the general interests networking options. It actually directs you to the solutions for a specific interest. Say business and professional networking site which is a platform that helps you with the myriad solutions and information on multiple aspects of your profession and career."The changing user expectations and the advancement in the social media, is giving birth to the various networking sites which are specifically responsible to cater the Niche target audience in terms of their specific interests, backgrounds, professions and age group.
"In popular social networking sites like facebook it is often found, that just 10 percent of all your friends or colleagues were really active or posting. The others are just consuming what is being posted."Many really do not know what to really post. You might not have been to that `exotic' joint nor vacationed in an exotic place, so what do you really post about. Hence many just end up reading up what the few 10 per cent did.But niche social networking is all together a different game, you end up contributing and reading about what really tugs your heart and mind.
More and more were now gravitating towards niche social networking sites that allow people sharing similar interest, professional concerns or passion to network closely.
Sharing trivia about football heroes; getting serious over dwindling statistics on forest cover, discussing medical research published the latest journal, could all be shared and lived through the niche social networking sites, the internet platform for "meeting of minds".
"There is lot of hype around the Big 3—Twitter, Facebook and Orkut. But with changing user expectations, and with the advancement in the social media, there is a new trend emerging called niche social networks.
"Niche networking is a step ahead to the general interests networking options. It actually directs you to the solutions for a specific interest. Say business and professional networking site which is a platform that helps you with the myriad solutions and information on multiple aspects of your profession and career."The changing user expectations and the advancement in the social media, is giving birth to the various networking sites which are specifically responsible to cater the Niche target audience in terms of their specific interests, backgrounds, professions and age group.
"In popular social networking sites like facebook it is often found, that just 10 percent of all your friends or colleagues were really active or posting. The others are just consuming what is being posted."Many really do not know what to really post. You might not have been to that `exotic' joint nor vacationed in an exotic place, so what do you really post about. Hence many just end up reading up what the few 10 per cent did.But niche social networking is all together a different game, you end up contributing and reading about what really tugs your heart and mind.
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