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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