Skyrock (social network site)

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.[1]

Skyrock
Type of site
Social network service
Available in
Country of originFrance
OwnerTéléfun
URLskyrock.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Launched17 December 2002 (2002-12-17)
Current statusOnline

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.[2]

As of June 2008 Skyrock was ranked as the world's seventh largest social network with over 21 million visitors.[3]

Controversies

Skyrock has a high penetration rate in France. In several French middle schools, 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.[4]

Furthermore, certain American newspapers attempted to associate the breakout of the 2005 civil unrest in France to users of Skyblogs.[5] However, institutions of the French state never filed any formal complaint indicting the usage of Skyrock Blogs.

A few prominent French institutions created a Skyrock Blog as a preferred tool to communicate messages. An example is the French Equal Opportunities and Anti-Discrimination Commission.

References
  1. "Skyrock". CrunchBase. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 30 May 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2396
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20071013160126/http://archquo.nouvelobs.com/cgi/articles?ad=multimedia%2F20050317.OBS1492.html&datebase=20050318. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007. Retrieved 24 September 2008. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/08/news/blogs.php
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