It’s at this point where we start feeling a bit sorry for Xiaonei — once “detested” and ridiculed as the Chinese carbon copy of Facebook. As we’ve reported a bit earlier on techblog86, Xiaonei as we know it right now might get harmonized — or see a lot of changes underway.

The changes are more visible to new users than to existing users. This is what the page looks if you’re not signed in:

There’s a new addition, however:

…and if you click that, you see this:

No joke. Xiaonei’s becoming Ren Ren Wang (人人网; 人人 means “everyone” in Chinese) — and that could see quite a shift in the Chinese SNS world…

Updates:

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