THE JAKARTA POST — Oct 6 — According to a recent article in Web in Travel, China now has two generations of one-child families, in the words of Harry Hui, CMO of PepsiCo Intl, "one of the loneliest generations in the world". Young people, isolated by a missing generation and an absence of siblings, are turning to social networks. "Friendster has more virtual friends in China than anywhere else," said Hui. "The mobile phone is more important than boyfriends or girlfriends for 90% of the younger generation," he says. Juniper Research last month predicted that the number of active users of mobile social networking sites is expected to rise from 54m this year to nearly 730m in 2013. Most of that is going to be in north and Southeast Asia, but don't forget India: That, Juniper says, will become the largest region for mobile dating services by 2010.
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