The line charts demonstrate the percentage of three social networking websites of the UK Weekly Market Share of visits over a year duration commercing in March 2007.
Overall, the trends showed an up and down pattern throughout the period, with the most dramatic growth on the website of Facebook between 05 May and 25 Sept. In comparison, the website of Bebo trends illustrate plateaued to the end period. By contrast, Myspace has declined steadily trend during 1 year.
In March 2007, Facebook had a lower percentage than two others at around 0,25%. This figure grew gradually on 05 May from 0,5% to 1,25%. After 25 August, the trend rose gradually and became the highest percentage at the end period at 1,96%. By contrast, Myspace and Bebo websites had the same number in the beginning period at 1,2%.
On 05 May, Myspace websites showed an oscillating trend but almost steady, and the and has middle percentage is 1,44%, whereas Bebo declined steadily between 02 June and 15 December, continuously varied modestly and the end of period was 0,89%.
In summary, Bebo showed an approximately steady pattern, Facebook recorded a dramatic rise, while Myspace displayed a stable downward trend.