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Skyrock
Type of site
Social network service
Available inFrench, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
OwnerTéléfun
URLskyrock.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationNot Required

Skyrock.com is a social networking site based in France that offers a free space on the web to allow its users to create blogs, add profiles, and exchange messages with other registered members. [2]

Background and description

Skyrock.com began as a blogging site, Skyblog.com, founded by Skyrock CEO Pierre Bellanger in December 2002. In May 2007, after abandoning the Skyblog.com brand, Skyrock.com was launched as a full-scale social network.[3]

As of June 2008 Skyrock was ranked as the world's seventh largest social network with over 21 million visitors.[4]

Controversies

Skyrock has a high penetration rate in France. In several French middle schools,[when?] students used the platform to malign school personnel resulting in their expulsion and in the issuing of alerts by schools to warn parents and students about such behavior.[5]

Furthermore, certain American newspapers attempted to associate the breakout of the 2005 civil unrest in France to users of Skyblogs. [6] However, institutions of the French state never filed any formal complaint indicting the usage of Skyrock Blogs.[citation needed]

A few prominent French institutions created a Skyrock Blog as a preferred tool to communicate messages. An example is the High Authority for the Struggle Against Discrimination and for Equality.

References

  1. ^ "Skyrock.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2013-09-01.
  2. ^ "Skyrock". CrunchBase. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
  3. ^ http://adreu.eurid.eu/adr/decisions/decision.php?dispute_id=3495
  4. ^ http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2396
  5. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20071013160126/http://archquo.nouvelobs.com/cgi/articles?ad=multimedia/20050317.OBS1492.html&datebase=20050318. Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. Retrieved September 24, 2008. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/08/news/blogs.php
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