時尚雙語:“在線社交網”熱潮席捲全球

“在線社交網”熱潮席捲全球

Online social networking websites saw their ranks swell and values soar this year as everyone from moody teenagers and mellow music lovers to mate-seeking seniors joined online communities.

Google's freshly released "Zeitgeist 2007" reveals that seven out of the 10 hottest topics which triggered Internet queries during the year involved social networking.

A Top Ten list compiled by the world's most-used search engine includes British website Badoo, Spanish-language Hi5, and US-based Facebook.

Video-sharing websites YouTube and Dailymotion are on the list, along with the Club Penguin online role playing game where children pretending to be the flightless birds "waddle about and play" together.

Virtual world Second Life, where people represented by animated proxies interact in digitized fantasy settings, is the final social networking property in the Zeitgeist Top Ten.

The world has only seen "the tip of the iceberg" when it comes to online social networking, says MySpace vice president of business development Amit Kapur.

"It is a natural step in the evolution of the Web," Kapur said.

"The Web is getting more personal. I think you are going to see much more of that happen on every website across the Web."

MySpace aspires to become people's homes on the Internet, with profile pages serving as online addresses as well as springboards to online music, video, news and other contents conducive to their tastes and interests.

Industry statistics show Facebook membership more than doubled in the past year to about 55 million, while MySpace grew 30 percent to top 110 million.

One in every four US residents uses MySpace, while in Britain it is as common to have a profile page on the website as it is to own a dog.

“在線社交網站”今年人氣大漲、“身價倍增”，因爲在這一年中，從情緒多變的青少年到舒緩音樂的愛好者，再到覓偶人士，都加入了在線社交網站。

全球用戶最多的搜索引擎Google近日公佈了“2007年度十大熱門搜索排行榜”。該榜顯示，其中七大熱門搜索都與社交網絡有關。

“十大熱門搜索”包括英國的Badoo社交網站、Hi5西班牙語社交網站以及美國的Facebook網站。

Youtube視頻分享網、Dailymotion網站以及（面向兒童的）“企鵝俱樂部”角色扮演遊戲社區也榜上有名，孩子們在“企鵝俱樂部”中都扮成小企鵝，它們“搖搖晃晃地走來走去，一起玩耍”。

“第二人生”虛擬社區名列“十大熱門搜索排行”第十位，“第二人生”社區是一個數字化的虛擬世界，社區用戶都有一個動漫化身。

MySpace業務拓展部副經理阿米特•卡珀說，這些還只是社交網絡的“冰山一角”。

他說，“這是網絡發展的必然結果”。

“隨着網絡的日趨個性化，這一熱潮將席捲各個網站。”

MySpace致力於成爲人們的網上家園，社區內用戶的個人主頁既是在線聯繫地址，也是分享在線音樂、視頻、新聞和人們感興趣的內容的平臺。

據業內統計數據顯示，今年Facebook網站的註冊用戶增長了一倍以上，達到約5500萬，而MySpace的用戶數量則增長了30%，已超過1.1億。

美國有四分之一的居民是MySpace的用戶，而在英國，擁有網上個人空間就像擁有寵物狗那麼普遍。