To an American eye, the Cyworld service looks like a mixture of some of the hottest US properties: it's MySpace meets Flickr and Blogger and AIM and Second Life.
If you are a J teacher, make sure you have looked at Flickr, Second Life and that you know what AIM is (I do, but I don't like AIM because it is too disjointed for me.)
The future is in South Korea from Guardian Unlimited: Technology
Better add
Bebo to the list of sites you get familar with. This is a longer story that really goes into who is using social networking sites and how they are connecting all kinds of people.
Bebo is a relative upstart in the social networking community, but it certainly isn't the last. Inevitably, Bebo has friends: MySpace, Friendster, Classmates, Xanga, MSN Spaces, Yahoo 360, hi5, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, Sconex, CrushSpot, Multiply, Orkut, Tagworld, Tagged, Piczo, Mooble, WAYN, ASmallWorld, MyYearBook, Cyworld, ProfileHeaven, Fropper and EveryonesConnected.
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