Xiaonai v. Facebook

This summer I will be spending 5 weeks studying abroad in Asia.  One of my assigments before I leave is to get to know a student at Peking University in Beijing, China over the next few months via email.  In my first email I explained to her my life in the United States, including my hobbies and what I do in my free time, one of those activities is getting on facebook. With facebook’s popularity in the social networking world, I guess I always thought it really was popular around the world. Xuemin, my email partner, quickly responded with the same excitement for social networking sites, except she explained she is a member of Xiaonai.com, which she said is very similar to facebook.com.  I was curious about this website so I navigated to it on my free time and found outhow much it really IS similar to facebook.  The homepage is almost identical.  I also found an article on facebookobserver.com comparing how similar the two sites are.  Take a look!