Facebook Inc (FB), LinkedIn Corp (LNKD), Yelp Inc (YELP): Three Successful Social Networking Sites

Facebook, LinkedIn and Yelp do not directly compete with each other. LinkedIn and Yelp Inc (NYSE:YELP) have been quite successful with its social networking niche markets. I personally think that all of those three businesses will grow rapidly in the future. Importantly, with the rising trend of mobile usage, all three sites need to increase the number and the stickiness level of mobile users.

My Foolish take

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), LinkedIn Corp (NYSE:LNKD) and Yelp Inc (NYSE:YELP) could fit well in the technology portfolio of long-term investors. However, with the high valuation and the fast changing nature of the technology industry, all three stocks are expected to be extremely volatile. Thus, investors should diversify their technology portfolio with a lot of other large well-established tech companies.

The article Three Successful Social Networking Sites originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Anh Hoang.

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