CampusProgress.org | Field Report | After Banning Facebook in China, Social Media Still... - 0 views
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China has more Internet users than any other country
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China’s largely anonymous right-wing, online message board community commands disproportionate attention from Communist Party leaders seeking to keep their fingers on the pulse of public opinion
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in July of 2009, Facebook and Twitter were both banned by the government in the aftermath of violent protests by ethnic Uighurs in China’s Western Xinjiang province
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The Chinese site has entirely borrowed Facebook’s interface, including the news feed, app menus, status updates, “wall,” profile, photo albums, notifications, and chat feature — they’re all exactly as they appear on Facebook
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A Qzone page is more of a personal blog than a Facebook-style “profile”; people post their thoughts and photographs chronologically, and members can communicate by public comments or private messages.
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As for Renren? “I only use that to steal other people’s vegetables”, Qiong says — a reference to a hosted app that allows users to grow and sell virtual crops, itself a model borrowed by the popular Farmville in the US.