Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Nov 19, 2008
Social Networks Site Usage: Visitors, Members, Page Views, and Engagement by the Numbers in 2008
SNAP Exceeds 15 Million Users on Facebook(R) Platform
Match serves one billion winks. Winks are the most useless online dating tool for serious singles, why even offer them?
Plentyoffish says Listening to users is bad.
Social dating startup Ignighter gets new offices.
3D Explorer launches avatar creation tools. No plug-in, no download. Supports Windows, Mac and Linux, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera.
Match just billed me $101.94 to continue service for a year. Someday, somehow, dating sites will clean up their act regarding re-billing. Being alerted that a company is about to bill your credit or debit card should be a law. Many dating sites rely on a considerable number of people forgetting to cancel their subscriptions, which is legal, but that doesn’t make it right. Subscription-based dating sites will do whatever they can to keep the money flowing. I’ve given up on them actually gaining a conscience when it comes to filling the coffers, it’s not going to happen any time soon.
