Spotlight: VK in Russia

Its a hard life trying to find friends on this network, road blocks like privacy and unwillingness be friends with a random person set me back in my attempt to make contact. I added several people as my friend, hoping to find someone willing to talk to me but after having no success with finding friends I was about to give up.  

However, a week after making the profile I finally had my first friend!  Natalya-Vanilla Sky-Vishnevskaya. 

On Natalya's page she had over 8,000 friends, her music likes included Kesha, Rihanna, Britney Spears ( Spelt as 'Spiars'), and tons of posts from friends (all in Russian).  Her profile shared her husbands name, where she worked, and contact information.  I have attempted to talk to my new friend, however no response so far. 

Perhaps I will have better luck with the next network.  

Spotlight: VK in Russia

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When I began making my profile on VK I thought I was making a second Facebook account.  This nearly identical site is a little underdeveloped when compared to facebook, and in some areas more developed. 

Included in this Facebook look-a-like is a profile page, friends, photos, groups, messages, notes, music, events, and setting options.  Additionaly it has an instant message feature and applications feature. 

The 'wall' on the profile page has a unique feature called grafitti.  This allows you to write on others walls but rather than using the keyboard to type a message, you can use a 'spray paint can' to draw or write on the wall.

One area that seems a bit more developed than facebook is the people search application. From here a list of random people will appear, but then you can begin to sort results by changing the long list of critera.  For example, you can sort by country, sex, relationship status, age, religous views, schools, military, and much more.

I found this particular feature helpful when I began to browse through profiles, because all of the conversation, information, gossip, etc. was in Russian.  Therefore, using this feature I was able to find people who use the English language. 

Shortly after making a profile, there was already activity happening. I had five group invitations, similar to group or event invitations on Facebook.  In looking at the invitations, they were sent from random people, all who spoke a different language.  

There was one group I was able to recognized from the logo MARY KAY, the popular make-up brand in the US. Others included Great World Treasury of the Cinema, Enrique Iglesias MTV EMA voting, and some I couldn't understand such as Фотограф-Чижиков Николай. г.Москва. Индивидуальная фотосъемка, lovestory, жанр, портрет, Портфолио.