How Badoo built a billion-dollar social network on sex

Re:How Badoo built a billion-dollar social network on sex by nopinsight on Thursday November 24, 2011 @11:26AM (#3274719)

I believe the reason is partly cultural. South Americans, like South East Asians, are less privacy conscious that Anglo-Saxons and Europeans are. Badoo and Hi5 are examples of less private social networks that grow more easily in these cultures. (Though Hi5 is dying down because of its inability to design and implement software properly--people flocked to Facebook for its coolness and niceness, even then they use Facebook a bit differently in these cultures than in the West.)

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Re:How Badoo built a billion-dollar social network on sex by hollerith on Thursday November 24, 2011 @01:33PM (#3275051)

>South Americans and South East Asians are less privacy conscious that Anglo-Saxons and Europeans are.

Very interesting. Did you learn this from someone you trust to be right or from observations of the relevant populations? If observations, were they mainly observations of online behavior? And can you give any sort of example? (E.g., how exactly do they use Facebook a bit differently?)

The reason I ask is that I have an idea for improving society which violates most American's (I am American) sense of privacy.

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Re:How Badoo built a billion-dollar social network on sex by nandemo on Friday November 25, 2011 @01:01AM (#3276356)

Anecdotal examples: Brazilians upload lots of pics, have tons of orkut/facebook friends, "chain-like" updates ("blablah, if you agree with this post it on your wall"). are not uncommon, etc. Meanwhile, many of my Japanese facebook-friends don't even have a real pic of themselves as their profile pic, they usually don't add coworkers, etc. Americans might be somewhere in between.

You could probably find data that quantifies those anecdotes. If you want to talk more about it feel free to send me a message (my email address is in my profile).

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Re:How Badoo built a billion-dollar social network on sex by nopinsight on Friday November 25, 2011 @01:11AM (#3276381)

It's from my observations among my South East Asian's and South American's online friends. Nandemo's anecdotes on Brazilians agrees very well with mine.

One group I don't have much data on is Eastern Europeans--whom I'd love to know more about. If anyone cares to share about their culture, please feel free to.

I am very curious about your idea on improving society with some privacy issues and would love to discuss with you if you feel comfortable to. My email is in my profile.

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