Skyrock Blog
Type of site | Social network service |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | France |
| Owner | TELEFUN SAS |
| URL | http://www.skyrock.com/ |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required |
Skyblog is a weblog service was lauched in December 2002 by Skyrock (a French youth-oriented radio station). It is contested that this service cannot be considered as a real weblog because Skyblog users ("Skybloggers") often use their account to publish photos without any accompanying articles. With over 9,1 million members1, it can be considered the French version of MySpace, LiveJournal or Xanga, but with nowhere near the same amount of popularity. The majority of Skybloggers use the SMS language in their entries. All those facts make the platform quite unpopular outside of people who use it.
Skyblog is also very popular in Quebec, Switzerland, Belgium and other french-speaking communities.
1 - (update: June 9, 2007)
Political resourcefulness in major events
Due to Skyblog's reach to the young society in France, Skyblog has been utilized as a common source of online rallying and communication during the Paris Riots of 2005 [1]. It has also been used in the organisation of underground political demonstrations and movements, similar to the 2006 U.S. immigration reform protests.