Skyrock.com is a
social networking site
A social networking service or SNS (sometimes called a social networking site) is an online platform which people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career content, interests, act ...
based in
France that offers a free space on the web to allow its users to create
blogs, add profiles, and exchange messages with other registered members.
Background and description
Skyrock.com began as a blogging site, Skyblog.com, founded by Skyrock CEO
Pierre Bellanger
Pierre Christian Bellanger (; born December 14, 1958) is founder and CEO of radio station Skyrock, and founder of Skyrock.com (French-language social network).
Biography
Bellanger created Skyrock in 1985 as a national FM station in France. Tod ...
in December 2002. In May 2007, after abandoning the Skyblog.com brand, Skyrock.com was launched as a full-scale social network.
As of June 2008 Skyrock was ranked as the world's seventh largest social network with over 21 million visitors.
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Controversies
Skyrock has a high penetration rate in
France. In several French middle schools, students used the platform to malign school personnel resulting in their expulsion and in the issuing of alerts by schools to warn parents and students about such behavior.
Furthermore, certain American newspapers attempted to associate the breakout of the
2005 civil unrest in France
The 2005 French riots (french: Émeutes de 2005 dans les Banlieues Françaises), was a three-week period of riots in the suburbs of Paris and other French cities, in October and November 2005. These riots involved youth in violent attacks, and t ...
to users of Skyblogs.
[ ] However, institutions of the French state never filed any formal complaint indicting the usage of Skyrock Blogs.
A few prominent French institutions created a Skyrock Blog as a preferred tool to communicate messages. An example is the
French Equal Opportunities and Anti-Discrimination Commission.
References
External links
* {{Official website
Internet properties established in 2002
Blog hosting services
French social networking websites