40m+ active users and I'd never even heard of them!

staunch · on March 4, 2009

"We're active in 26 languages and 30+ countries with our 5 most active countries being Italy, Belgium, Turkey, Switzerland and Germany."

defied · on March 4, 2009

I work for Netlog as a web developer (great job!). Netlog's main audience are indeed teens and people in their twenties. The site is extremely popular in Europe, kinda like the Facebook of Europe.

samueladam · on March 4, 2009

Because netlog's audience is pretty different from hacker news.

Search for common names to get an idea: http://www.google.com/search?q=netlog+profile+for+julia http://www.google.com/search?q=netlog+profile+for+john

wesley · on March 5, 2009

No need, they have a full people directory:

http://nl.netlog.com/go/directory/ (Holland & Belgium, change subdomain for diff areas)