We wont get into the details of why the youth in India is attracted to social networking sites. We are going to take a look at yet another new social networking site launched exclusively for Indians. Yahoo announced that it has launched a new social networking site for Indian youth between 16-24 years bracket (I am not sure if I can become a member because I am over 24 ).

The site is called as SpotM. Yahoo hasn’t given much details on the features of the site and I tried to get myself an invite (Still waiting). Also, if I were to use my logic the letter M in SpotM could mean mobile. Which means that the site will have compatibility for mobiles and features that’d unleash the power of mobile usage among the youth.

Yahoo would allow, people to make friends on SpotM and also offer a great feature of making a friend private thus disallowing other friends in the list to know the relationship (Means you can flirt with more than one person at a time with out getting caught). The site will have sms integration along with anonymous chat without revealing phone number (Sounds like a perfect recipe for Yahoo to get into trouble with privacy issues and harassment on phone).

SpotM is currently in private beta.