If RenRen is Not Chinese Facebook, What is? Kaixin, Sina Weibo Or Douban

RenRen claims itself as Chinese Facebook, but as we look closer into the Beijing based company, in many ways, it is not as successful as its U.S. counterpart .  We have discussed these in previous posts, Thoughts On RenRen’s IPO and RenRen is Just a Social Network Not a Chinese Facebook.

Another point worth noticing is that: while both started from university students, Facebook have successfully expanded its coverage, to anyone aged 12 – 60 years old, RenRen is still a predominated university students focus.

“People use RenRen when they are still in the universities, and switch to Sina Weibo when they start working,” said a hedge fund manager invested in Chinese internet stocks.

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