None of the desi Social Networking sites are being taken seriously
August 4th, 2008 | by bgmahesh |Today’s Mint had an interesting article about how executives of Fortune companies in India use social networking sites for their work/research/hiring etc.
The findings are not that surprising, they all use LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook, Orkut. The sad part, I did not see a single mention of any Indian social networking site 
Guess my fraternity has a lot of work to do.
Most of the Indian social networking sites seem to be for fun, entertainment etc. The only Indian site which is attempting to be a LinkedIn seems to be Brijj.com (I wonder why they don’t promote it from the footer of Naukri.com)
Tags: brijj, facebook, linkedin, myspace, orkut
2 Responses to “None of the desi Social Networking sites are being taken seriously”
By Sunil Goyal on Aug 7, 2008 | Reply
Today, the younger crowd is already hooked to Orkut, Facebook and professional crowd on LinkedIn. Sites like Rediff Connexions, Minglebox, Yaari.com, Brijj will need to have a mass adoption scale – for the media to take a serious notice. Lot of people even in the technical community haven\’t ever heard of these names. I guess Naukri.com could do a very good job, it already has the people profiles, perhaps should integrate social networking directly into Naukri.com
By sami lagod on Aug 7, 2008 | Reply
see first of all the internet boom in India has just started. Plus most of the teens are already into orkuting etc and are least interested in going to a indian social system cos of many factors. have patience, slowly we too will begin rocking.