Facebook - is it popular in Poland?

Switezianka:

Nasza klasa is originally a site where people were supposed to look for class-mates from the past. They logged on, looked for their school, their class and contacted their childhood friends. And sometimes it changed with a big community portal that has nothing to do with looking for one's class mates. But still, it's something completely different from Facebook.

Captain ScarletThreads: 4 Posts: 44 Joined: Aug 31, 08	Edited by: Moderator Jan 12, 09, 14:01 / #
Is it popular in Poland too ? I've one polish friend ( not literally ) on there but she does'nt get the gist of it .

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,158 Joined: Dec 25, 07	Jan 12, 09, 14:06 / #
Yes, it's quite popular, esp for photo posting :)

Captain ScarletThreads: 4 Posts: 44 Joined: Aug 31, 08	Jan 12, 09, 14:13 / #
Yeah i usually create an album of trip's away . It's nice for seeing pic's of friend's who are further afield and keeping up with event's :-)

DaveyThreads: 17 Posts: 436 Joined: Jun 29, 07	Edited by: Davey Jan 12, 09, 14:27 / #
No it's not popular there, Polish people have their own sites that are similar which they prefere to use....although facebook has recently been translated into Polish so I assume the popularity of it is growing

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,158 Joined: Dec 25, 07	Jan 12, 09, 14:28 / #
Davey has a point if you accept that nasza-klasa.pl is more popular.

Antonius86Threads: 1 Posts: 7 Joined: Jan 11, 09	Jan 13, 09, 13:10 / #
Myspace polska is popular!, facebook I'm not know?

WooPeeThreads: 3 Posts: 133 Joined: Jul 1, 08	Jan 13, 09, 15:30 / #
I don't know many people using it in Poland to be honest.

KrakowiankaThreads: 2 Posts: 272 Joined: Oct 16, 08	Jan 13, 09, 15:46 / #
I dont think its even close to the popularity of nasza-klasa. It seems everyone & their mom is on NK.

MistyThreads: 6 Posts: 196 Joined: Jul 20, 08	Jan 13, 09, 15:49 / #
Krakowianka: I dont think its even close to the popularity of nasza-klasa. It seems everyone & their mom is on NK. You're right. I asked a few of my Polish friends about joining facebook but they told me no and asked me what was the point of facebook was. Yet they're all on NK... :)

WroclawThreads: 77 Posts: 7,404 Joined: Apr 1, 06 [Moderator]	Jan 13, 09, 15:56 / #
Krakowianka: It seems everyone & their mom is on NK. nasza klasa is really very popular. nasza klasa is important when it comes to the age at which one can register. There is no age limit. On friendsreunited, for example, one must be eighteen. I guess that once people upload so much data, photos etc, they are not going to be persuaded to change sites too easily.

osiolThreads: 59 Posts: 4,714 Joined: Jul 25, 07	Jan 13, 09, 16:24 / #
Nasza-klasa, facebook and myspace don't all do the same thing. Facebook is full of games and "fun" stuff, myspace has music and plenty of space for typing rubbish about oneself, and nasza-klasa is all in Polish so I don't really understand it, although pictures and just finding and keeping in contact with old friends seems to be a large part along with posting photos (something that all three sites do). I know of a small handful of Poles who are on all three, a larger number who are on nasza-klasa and one other, and many many more who seem quite happy to just stick to nasza-klasa. I might be on one, some or all of them, but why would I want to find old classmates on nasza-klasa (taking into consideration my Englishness and English education).

pvkThreads: - Posts: 3 Joined: Jan 19, 09	Jan 19, 09, 07:48 / #
Yes, I track my old class mates there.

KiltmakerThreads: 4 Posts: 20 Joined: Jan 22, 09	Jan 22, 09, 07:55 / #
Yeah, although nasza-klasa is very big, Faebook is used to keep in touch with "foreigners" a lot...

bobinson	Feb 17, 09, 17:19 / #
when i was in poland every1 had facebook, they also had nk tho.

WooPeeThreads: 3 Posts: 133 Joined: Jul 1, 08	Jan 13, 09, 16:20 / #
So I guess I'm one of few who's not on NK.

WooPeeThreads: 3 Posts: 133 Joined: Jul 1, 08	Jan 14, 09, 19:24 / #
osiol: and nasza-klasa is all in Polish Facebook and MySpace are available in Polish too.

TrevekThreads: 33 Posts: 2,155 Joined: May 21, 08	Jan 19, 09, 15:59 / #
Many of my students are of FB but I think more of the older people are on NK (looking for old friends). The thing with FB and MS is that many younger Poles have international friends.

SwiteziankaThreads: - Posts: 525 Joined: Jun 17, 08	Jan 19, 09, 16:22 / #
Nasza klasa is originally a site where people were supposed to look for class-mates from the past. They logged on, looked for their school, their class and contacted their childhood friends. And sometimes it changed with a big community portal that has nothing to do with looking for one's class mates. But still, it's something completely different from Facebook. Back to the topic: I have many Polish Facebook friends, so I guess it is popular.

DaveyThreads: 17 Posts: 436 Joined: Jun 29, 07	Jan 19, 09, 17:53 / #
WooPee: Facebook and MySpace are available in Polish too. Facebook's Polish translation still has some grammatical kinks

osiolThreads: 59 Posts: 4,714 Joined: Jul 25, 07	Jan 19, 09, 19:06 / #
Switezianka: Nasza klasa is originally a site where people were supposed to look for class-mates from the past. They logged on, looked for their school, their class and contacted their childhood friends. And sometimes it changed with a big community portal that has nothing to do with looking for one's class mates. But still, it's something completely different from Facebook. I thought facebook started with a similar idea in some American university. These things tend to only be successful when they out-grow the original idea. Davey: Facebook's Polish translation still has some grammatical kinks There is the option of assisting with translation. Then it all depends on the quality of language understanding by those who use this option.

ElsshaThreads: 1 Posts: 152 Joined: Jan 26, 09	Feb 17, 09, 19:29 / #
osiol: I thought facebook started with a similar idea in some American university. These things tend to only be successful when they out-grow the original idea. Yup, I had it back when it was that way. You could only get it if you were in one of a dozen or two colleges (it started with just one...), had to register with your school e-mail in order to get an account and the apps were limited to pics and a profile and a class engine to post your schedule and find people also in that class. then they did the 'you can invite someone if you're already in' thing, which turned to a 'invite anyone you want' thing and finally a free-for-all which in my opinion ruined the whole thing. You suddenly get all sorts of games filled with 13-yr-olds and the adds change from cool college funnies to stupid all-age-appropriate things and the stupid stocker feed and so on. You have to then be careful of what you post and what you reveal. You get idiots you don't know asking you to befriend them so they could have an advantage in some game or another. I wish they did keep it just for college kids (excuse the rant)

Rafal_1981	Feb 18, 09, 13:00 / #
Not only nasza-klasa.pl, http://www.grono.net is quite popular too.