Instagram is a tool of the trade for 32-year-old Wang, a sociologist and consultant working in China and documenting the wildfire spread of new social-media platforms like Weibo and Renren.
This week Facebook revamped its privacy settings, adjusted its location based services, gunned after Instagram and indicated it was in a rabidly acquisitive mood. Something is up.
Navigating through the array of Chinese social networks has become a battlefield once only seen in the middle of Bagdad. However there are a few basics one can do when establishing an effective social media plan to connect and ultimately sell your brand to Chinese.
China's fake Facebooks started as mere copycats but now drive innovation in advertising and gaming. They've also built something unique in their country: a place where people can find love, speak out, and be whoever they want to be.
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Oak Pacific Interactive, which makes the "Facebook of China," is gearing up for a Stateside IPO. Other Chinese sites may follow. But should investors be wary?
