Facebook is one of the most popular social networking site today. You meet anyone and there is a very high probability that the person who you are talking to is on Facebook. On desktop front Facebook leads and gone are the days when people use to hang out on Orkut. Facebook has also reaped the benefits of its mobile offerings. The site's unique visitors of its mobile offering have increased 600% in 2009 according to the State of Mobile Web report that is published by Opera. The popularity of Facebook on mobile is driven by its ease of use and its SMS based model where you can update status messages, keep track of comments, keep track of your friends using SMS. You get charged as per your operator's data plans. Plus the Facebook Apps that are available in the market are easy to install, take less memory on phone and are very responsive. There are standalone as well as other apps that have Facebook integrated into them. This has really helped Facebook grow on the mobile front. Overall Facebook is the leading social network, which showed a growth of 619% in 2009, it is closely followed by Russia based Social Network Vkontakte. When it comes to India, Orkut still leads in mobile social networking but its growth rate of 189% is way behind closest competitor Facebook, which is around 431%. (All the data mentioned above is based on users accessing the mobile Internet from using Opera's mobile Internet browsers.)
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