May 10
It seems that the adoption of a social network site is something cultural. Here is a map of adoption at the world social networks (Face book, My Space, Orkut, etc.). See this map (Via Affordance, via Francis Pisani). It found that France uses Skyblog, Canada and England Face Book. And the USA is MySpace. Read about the social networks excellent account of Olivier: What we know social networks.
And illuminating accounts of the phenomenon, Fred Cavazza.net. And by the way, do not miss the last ticket Fred on the “next generation”, made in Google, which would revolutionize social networks today.