MySpace, Facebook and Twitter’s limitations

Aug. 11, 2009 - PRLog -- MySpace, Facebook and Twitter were created in 2003, 2004 and 2006 respectively by young minds that did not imagine what they could achieve.

Today, they are the leading social networking sites with almost 250 million users in Facebook⁽¹⁾  and 45 million in Twitter⁽²⁾ . It is also true that these sites are permanently faced with difficult challenges, such as confidentiality and security issues, user’s personal data protection and international legislation.

First great limitation: Language
In social networking sites, users keep in touch with different contacts exclusively in those languages that they personally speak. Therefore, a German Facebook user, cannot contact, chat or simply understand a profile of a Russian, Spanish or European user.

The English language is spoken by less than 1/3 of Internet’s total users, in other words, out of 1.596 million Internet users, only 463 million use this language online, (followed by 321 million that use Chinese online)⁽³⁾. Less than 10% of the worlds most populated regions speak English: Asia, Africa y Latin America.

Lienku.com marks the beginning of a new era, that will encourage expansion and contact between people of different cultures and languages. To this moment cultures were isolated by geographical, ideological and linguistic distances.  

Lienku.com is the first social networking site that provides instant translation in the world’s ten most popular languages, for all its contents, user profiles, messages, groups and chat.

Another great benefit instant translation in Lienku.com is the potential for future evolution of the automatic translation system. Currently, there is no perfect automatic translation system. The only way to improve and promote the evolution of this system, is to receive user’s input by proposing a better translation to a certain text. This nurtures the data base and helps to improve the system’s parameters.

The fact that up to this date, there was no Internet platform for the exchange between languages, has greatly limited the possibility to improve automatic translation systems, that require the active participation of users. Thanks to Lienku.com, the input provided by its users will help its automatic translation system to permanently evolve.

Second great limitation: Networks
According to the theory of the six degrees of separation⁽⁴⁾, only six chains separate any of us from another person in the world.
For on line communities such as Facebook or Twitter, the network is a place to contact past or present friends. The social network is generated by the contacts that arise from friends of friends.

Lienku.com, is the first social networking site that allows its users to create a new network⁽⁵⁾ , with people from around the world, without having to depend on other friends to introduce them. Lienku.com’s users are joined by there common preferences, interests and objectives.

In Lienku.com people are joined by their objectives, principles and common values.
This opens the way for people to know each other because they share preferences in spite of having no prior relations in the past.

Third great limitation: No cultural exchange
The groups created by today’s social networking site, speak the same language and therefore also share basic elements of their way of thinking, culture and experiences.
Lienku.com, provides a platform that encourages the expansion of our human knowledge and the exchange between different cultures around the world.

Formation of multi-lingual groups.  This key tool allows people from all over the world that share the same interests, to participate in a common space, without language barriers by simply joining a Group of common interests.

Lienku.com’s users can exchange information, that depending on their personal interests, may be about scientific investigation, humanitarian or human rights, friendship, studies, etc.

This opens the way to an unexplored multiplication of the human knowledge, since the information in general, shall be nurtured by different cultural views and ideologies.

An important point to bare in mind, is that the exchange in between cultures, languages and ideologies is created in the users own language. This aspect is of fundamental importance, since contrary to the usual concept of globalization , which implicates the loss of identity, at Lienku.com the exchange is based on a totally new perspective, since user’s express themselves in their own language.

Lienku.com, is a platform for those who believe in the importance of cultural exchange and that a better world is possible thanks to worldwide cooperation, tolerance and respect of differences. Lienku.com invites them to “join a world without borders”.
http://www.lienku.com/index.php

This video shows the spirit of this community: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n_qHSFY0pU



For further information, please contact Ms. Ivanna Sessarego isessarego@lienku.com

Notes:
1- www.facebooknoticias.com August 11, 2009
2- www.comscore.com
3- Internet World Users by Language – Top Ten Languages 2009  www.Internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm
4- Writer Frigyes Karinthy (1929). "The six degrees of separation".
5- Users determine their interests in four categories: Arts & Humanities - Sports & Recreation - Professions & Occupations - Science & Technology

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