Emergence Of East African Social Network

By Kathryn Neal


Social networking has become the order of the day in this twenty first century. This is due to the need to foster the represented areas and put the entire region on the world map. An emerging case of such platform is the East African Social Network. This is a platform where citizens of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda meet and exchange ideas for their own benefit as a block.

Joining this site is a very simple process. One needs to browse on their site and fill in whatever information that is needed on the registration form. These includes contact information, password selection and other information which are your public display name, relationship status, current location in terms of city, state or province, complete date of birth and other security confirmation to determine your humanity; that is to say, the person signing in is not a robot but a human being.

Upon submission, the account will be established. A confirmation link is, therefore, sent to the respective email address. This is to confirm you are truly the one who has created the account. Once this is done, one is free to browse any content when they log into their account using the given email address and selected password.

Here, you can add more friends, chat with them, flirt, exchange ideas, add pictures and even date. All this are essentially for fun. One can also join the any of the many groups that are relevant to your location and desires even job opportunities for the jobless people could be shared and those interested take up the initiative of applying.

In recent times, the flow of information has been enhanced with the connection of this region with the rest of the world using an undersea optic cable. With this cable, there is guarantee of faster flow of information due to provision of cheaper and reliable internet services. Such interactions are the recipe for better understanding and growth of opportunities for these peoples.

Market liberalization is another factor propelling this website to greater heights. What is being experienced is free trading with the region. This gives producers an upper hand in marketing their products and services on this media. The guarantee of such information reaching a wide client base is high. With these, economic growth in the entire area turns out to be an assured thing.

In recent times, a few aspects have been noted to be pulling down this development. First of all, the site is popular in cities. Very few people in remote rural areas have information concerning this development. Even if they knew, some lack ways of accessing it since they have no computers or internet supported mobile phones.

The final thing hindering the expansion of East African Social Network is language barrier. People in this area are not conversant with single language as a means of communication. We have Swahili, English and the rest. This challenge makes it difficult for communication to be freely without the need for an interpreter. Harmonization and marketing are the viable solutions to iron out these aspects.




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