One of the Microsoft Team in charge called it .. the World’s Most Popular Social Networking Site.

Funny, I did not know Windows Live Spaces existed.

Here’s the post:

… You might quibble with the title of this blog post but it is hard to argue that Blogger is a social networking site by any definition of the term. When it comes to reach, no social networking site impacts as many users as Windows Live Spaces.

Of course, unique users aren’t the only metric Web sites are judged against and I’m sure there are many out there who will be quick to point out other charts that show our user engagement is lower than average which is a fair point. …

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life – Windows Live Spaces: World’s Most Popular Social Networking Site

It got me to go check out Windows Live Spaces (another terrible name, by the way, Microsoft). Turned out I have an account. Here’s my WLS page:

I even have 24 “friend invites”, all SPAM.

So, because I have a Microsoft Hotmail account, I have a WLS page. And this guy — Dare Obasanjo (hmm, He is the son of the former President of Nigeria) — counts me a member though I’ve never used it.

You can call me “low engagement member”, alright.

Windows Live Spaces looks terrible, by the way, compared with Facebook.