As everyone knows, social networking is one of the most popular attractions throughout the world when someone logs onto the internet. Although this may be true, in Pakistan, it's a different story. It has been stated by forum Pakistan:
"Pakistan has emerged as a great potential market for social networking, but still only has 1% of internet users using social networks."
As of now, there are only around 117,000 Pakistanis on Facebook, and only a few thousand users logging onto MySpace. Pakistan has social networks of their own that are very similar to Facebook (Circle!) in the sense that people are able to connect with friends and be able to upload photos and videos for your friends to see. Even though Pakistan has this, this site still does not attract nearly a fraction of the users that Facebook has in the United States and in other countries. Pakistan actually blocked Facebook for a period of time because there was page that featured "blasphemous caricatures" of the Prophet Mohammed and the people of Pakistan were not happy about it. This also included the block of youtube because people began to post images of Facebook on youtube having to do with the Prophet Mohammad.
Although Pakistan does not have a large quantity of people logging onto their social networks, Pakistanis are still making efforts to launch new social networking sites hoping that it will catch on more throughout the country. One of these new sites is linkedpk.com and so far, just like all of their other social networking sites, people have registerd, but not nearly the amount compared to other countries and what the creators of the sites were hoping for. Also, since the site is still reasonably new, there are still a couple of problems with the site that have to be worked out. This is a very common problem when starting a new website, but in order for the site to grow to what the creators expect, it has to be a free flowing site, or no one will want to deal with all of the problems.