I can say that I am in intermediate level in using social media.
I am from Korea, and I remember that I had been using a kind of social network 'Damoim' since my middle school.
Damoim is like a MySpace. I used to find a girl's Damoim account who I am interested in. Then, 'CyWorld', which is a new generation of Korean version of MySpace, was getting popular, I had been using CyWorld from 2004-2009.
Then, Facebook was getting popular in Korea, probably from 2009, and I started to use Facebook. Now I am an active user of Facebook. I believe that Facebook is a great tool to interact with my American friends for me.
<Damoim>
*Damoim means "meeting altogether" in Korean meaning
<Cyworld>
*Cyworld means "relationship world" in Korean meaning
In addition, I used to do my blog. My blog topic was Hiphop Music. I wrote semi-professional columns about Korean Hiphop scene. Then, some people who are interested in the topic found my blog via searching, so I made some online friends who I never met F2F. But I no longer use my blog.
Now I am not sure specifically what kinds of technologies are involved in Web 2.0 category. However, I think I am definitely an intermediate level user in Web 2.0. Also, I am not a leader. I think that I am a follower or consumer. I do not use Twitter, Flicker, Blog, etc. In terms of Facebook, I prefer seeing friends' status to writing my status.
I hope that Web2.0 class will cover various Web2.0 technologies as many as possible. I am ready to get into the Web2.0 world! I am still feeling that I am a kind of outsider in whole Web2.0 world although I use Facebook.
Very cool. I love that you wrote about hip hop in your column. A topic I am also passionate about. Your Korean site reminds me of what my friends use in Germany. I find it very interesting that many countries have adapted things like MySpace and Facebook for their own culture, language and needs. I joined my friends network on the German site only to not really understand it because I am not fluent. However, it is still very interesting to see it from a global perspective.
ReplyDeleteHello!
DeleteYes, that's true. Many countries have adapted similar things like MySpace. However, I'd like to point out that CyWorld 'was' the most popular social network site in Korea, but now few people use Cyworld.
The reason I think is a kind of NEED for globalization in Korean.
Cyworld was totally for just domestic.
Thus many Cyworld users have moved to Facebook to meet the world.
Only early teenagers use Cyworld.
Oh, yes. We'll cover lots of tools in here :)
ReplyDeleteHi there, thanks for the input, very cool perspective, never heard of the other two sites you mentioned before, Damoim & CyWorld, do people still used those sites or have they totally switched to just using Facebook?
ReplyDeleteDamoim was a prevalent social network site before 2002.
DeleteI remember that most of my middle&highschool friends used Damoim.
However, most of them switched from Damoim to Cyworld after Cyworld was released.
So Damoim site was completely closed, passed away.
I can say that CyWorld was the most popular one until 2009.
Now Cyworld is still alive, but nobody of my friends use Cyworld.
According to a news article, the number of users of Facebook in Korea exceeded that of Cyworld in 2011. The trend has been still going on in Korea.