While Facebok takes the lead in France for most popular social networking site, Skyrock.com is not far behind. This network, based in France, is a European central network and has multilingual options.
Compared to other social networks, Skyrock does not differ greatly and could be compared to MySpace with busy profiles and cluttered, jam packed pages.
Privacy on this site differs from some though. Visiting Skyrock.com, right from the start without creating a profile you can view other profiles, blogs, search for people, chat rooms, and watch as the "what's up?" feature (similar to tweets or status updates) displays a new 'status' every four seconds.
The most popular content on Skyrock is easy to find with links that have the content sorted into categories such as the most viewed, top 100, blog stars, etc. Browsing through profiles and blogs, many people write in both English and French, sometimes even within the same post. The most popular blogs involved a variety of topics such as beauty or dating advice, words of wisdom, inspirational writings, daily ramblings, celebrity gossip (especially American celebrities), and much more.
The chat feature on this social network is unique in that there are chat rooms by country, and also a number of other themed chat rooms to join at any time. The biggest chat room by country I came across when I was browsing chat rooms was the France chat room with 340 guys and 260 girls at once! Most of the themed chat rooms were in French, therefore I could not understand the conversation.
In a general chat room for the US and UK however, the conversation was mostly in English with some French. Once in the chat room, there was an open chat between every person in the chat room, however, you could also click on a single person in the chat room to start a private conversation. The chat rooms can also kick you out for doing something such as "yelling" or writing in all caps.
In the US chat room, not all members were from the US, but more so anyone who could speak English. Most of the conversations revolved around where people were from, and just getting to know who one another was. Additionally, wanting to go into a private chat was a common aspect once I joined the chat room. Personally it was a little creepy with random people flirting, asking how old you were, and if you wanted to go into a private chat.
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