Facebook was pulling twice the traffic of Bebo in 2007, then FB had a visit growth of over 300% in 2008 to put it on par with MySpace.
Generally speaking, Bebo has been the poor cousin of FB and MS for while now. http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/bebo-myspace-facebook-site-stats-issued-3825/ Facebook started as a Student only network in the US, so it's far more engrained in American student life from what I've seen and heard. Bebo seems to be more for the younger gen now, while MySpace is still insanely popular with artists, especially musicians. Cheers Aaron ----- Original Message ----- From: Nathan Cox To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 10:58 AM Subject: [phpug] Re: What students use Thanks, yeah my inclination was to push data to as many subscrible channels as possible. Is Bebo still as popular as Facebook? I know it used to be huge but from what I hear everyone's been moving to Facebook. Michael Adams wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:31:54 +1200 Came this utterance formulated by Nathan Cox to my mailbox: Hi, I was wondering if anybody knows if there's information available anywhere (like statistics, even rough ones) about how many uni student use different services like Facebook apps, Twitter, feed readers, vista gadgets, YouTube subscriptions, etc. Basically what I'm looking for is some kind of information on the best ways to push notifications and information to students (that they subscribe to) that's a bit more concrete and convincing than "but everybody uses Facebook". I attended a teaching and learning conference at EIT Hawkes Bay recently "Student Success: A new era in ways of learning" where the concensus was to incorporate all of the new techniques available (as many as possible anyway). I think Bebo has as much of a following in NZ students as Facebook does. One option being explored was giving students thought provoking questions via text when they want it. Travelling on the train at 3:30 or 8:00pm during normal TV watching. The conference emphasis seemed to be on tertiary training. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
