Social:Skyrock (social network site)

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Skyrock
Type of site
Social network service
Available inFrench, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Country of originParis, France
OwnerTéléfun
Websiteskyrock.com
Alexa rankNegative increase 657 ((As of September 2013))[1]
CommercialYes
RegistrationNot Required
LaunchedDecember 17th, 2002
Current statusonline

Skyrock.com is a social networking site based in France that offers a free space on the web to allow its users to create blogs, add profiles, and exchange messages with other registered members.[2]

Background and description

Skyrock.com began as a blogging site, Skyblog.com, founded by Skyrock CEO Pierre Bellanger in December 2002. In May 2007, after abandoning the Skyblog.com brand, Skyrock.com was launched as a full-scale social network.[3]

As of June 2008 Skyrock was ranked as the world's seventh largest social network with over 21 million visitors.[4]

Controversies

Skyrock has a high penetration rate in France . In several French middle schools,[when?] students used the platform to malign school personnel resulting in their expulsion and in the issuing of alerts by schools to warn parents and students about such behavior.[5]

Furthermore, certain American newspapers attempted to associate the breakout of the 2005 civil unrest in France to users of Skyblogs.[6] However, institutions of the French state never filed any formal complaint indicting the usage of Skyrock Blogs.[citation needed]

A few prominent French institutions created a Skyrock Blog as a preferred tool to communicate messages. An example is the High Authority for the Struggle Against Discrimination and for Equality.

References

  1. ↑ "Skyrock.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/skyrock.com. Retrieved 2013-09-01. 
  2. ↑ "Skyrock". CrunchBase. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/skyrock. Retrieved 23 January 2013. 
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-05-30. https://archive.is/20120530170238/http://adreu.eurid.eu/adr/decisions/decision.php?dispute_id=3495. Retrieved 2012-05-30. 
  4. ↑ http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2396
  5. ↑ "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}". Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20071013160126/http://archquo.nouvelobs.com/cgi/articles?ad=multimedia%2F20050317.OBS1492.html&datebase=20050318. Retrieved September 24, 2008. 
  6. ↑ http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/08/news/blogs.php

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