Social Web Strategies

Aside from Business Values desire to promote spiritual intelligence, another advocacy was born in the middle of Sonnie’s lecture on brand management. He thought why not educate parents on cyber safety to help them keep their kids safe online? He presented his thoughts among his facebook buddies and offer of support came in, and the rest is history. On July 10, 2010, more or less 60 parents with their kids showed up and listened to the lectures, watched videos, shared experiences and laughed together. The power of social web and volunteerism in display. People who don’t know each other personally but connected thru Facebook and twitter, joined forces to advance one of the worthy projects in Philippine Cyber history.

Once upon a time, MySpace ruled the socialsphere, then comes Friendster who rocked the Philippines for several years.

But these two social networking sites, are now considered “jurassic” by mainstream social networkers, at least in the Manila. Facebook rules and dominates the socialsphere. According to facebakers.com,  Facebook has more than 12M users in the Philippines, and RP ranked # 8 in the world where Facebook is no. 1

But soon, the rule of nature will catch up with Facebook, “what goes up will have to go down”. It is not a question of “if”, but an interesting question of “when”. As to how long Facebook can stay in top depends on it’s developers can recreate Facebook and continue to be relevant to end users. And of course, it is dependent on how they respond to issues on privacy and malwares.

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