Social Networking Explodes Worldwide

It has been a topic of discussion if social networking is approaching saturation in the United States or not.  There are many opinions on this subject but one thing that does seem to be quite unanimous is the growth prospects in the “rest of the world”.

Last month Comscore came out with some stats to back this up and indeed social networking site use in the rest of the world is growing, and growing fast.  Here is an excerpt from the report on regional growth.

Facebook and Hi5 are leading the growth worldwide according to the report.  Friendster follows up in third place for international growth rates.

It is also worthy to note that as facebook’s localization its user interface continues, it is posting some amazing growth numbers in other markets (other than North America).  In Latin America for example, facebook has grown over 1000% in the last year to June 2008.

The full Comscore report can be found here.