BBC NEWS -- Mar 29 -- There has been a 5% slowdown in new UK users to
Facebook and
MySpace, between Dec '07 and Jan '08. "The slow down is being somewhat exaggerated. It's a natural form of any growth that we see in the online eco-system", said Alex Burmaster, an analyst at Nielsen Online. Social networking sites start to evolve and perform new roles. Rather than acting as friend finder, they could provide more practical help. The recent addition of a blood group application to Facebook that tracks down blood donors, ably demonstrates this. The big players have the users and the new sites have the ideas. Convergence between the two could see the dawn of a new age of social networking.
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