Facebook’s Rivals

• LinkedIn is a business-related social networking site. Launched in May 2003. One year before Facebook.

• As of 3 November 2011, LinkedIn reports more than 135 million registered users in more than 200 countries.

• LinkedIn has many feature that Facebook does not.

• It was created in March 2006, 2 years after Facebook.

• The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 300 million users as of 2011.

• Twitter claims to have many advantages over Facebook

• The service was launched on June 28, 2011, in an invitation-only "field testing" phase but early invites were soon suspended due to an "insane demand" for new accounts.

• On January 19, 2012, it was reported that Google+ had surpassed a user base of 90 million

• Some people say Google+ has it all; that it is the perfect mix between Facebook and Twitter.

• There are also many benefits of using Google+ than there are to using Facebook.

• MySpace was launched in August 2003.

• In August 2011, MySpace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors.

• From 2005 until early 2008, MySpace was the most visited social networking site in the world, and in June 2006 surpassed Google as the most visited website in the USA.

• MySpace has very few unique aspects to it that would give it the edge over Facebook.