List of Social Networking Sites
List of Social Networking Sites
Websites
Social Networking Sites
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Site Description
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Facebook
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To access Facebook.com, you must
create an account on the site which is free. Facebook's terms of use state
that members must be at least 13 years old with valid email ID’s. After
updating you're details, your Facebook profile is generated. Using
Facebook.com you can:
Browse and join networks, which
are organized into four categories: regions, colleges, workplaces and high
schools.
Pull contacts from a Web-based e-mail account, into Facebook.com. Find friends in several ways, including search engine to look for a specific person and lot more. Facebook has recently crossed 500 million users and is the most popular Social Networking site of the world |
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My Space
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On MySpace, your social network
starts growing from the first day. When you join MySpace, the first step is
to create a profile. You then, invite friends to join there and search for
your friends on already profiled on MySpace these friends become your initial
Friend Space. Once the friendship is confirmed all the people in your
friends' Friend Space become part of your network. In that sense, everyone on
MySpace is in your Extended Network. As part of terms of MySpace, the user
must be at least 14 years old to register.
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Twitter
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Twitter is a very simple service
that is rapidly becoming one of the most talked-about social networking
service providers. When you have a Twitter account, you can use the service to
post and receive messages to a network of contacts, as opposed to send bulk
email messages. You can build your network of contacts, and invite others to
receive your Tweets, and can follow other members' posts. Twitter makes it
easy to opt into or out of networks. Additionally, you can choose to stop
following a specific person’s feed.
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Linkedin
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LinkedIn is an online social
network for business professionals, which is designed specifically for
professional networking, to help them find a job, discover sales leads,
connect with potential business partners. Unlike most of the other social
networks, LinkedIn does not focus on making friends or sharing media like
photos, videos and music. To start using LinkedIn you need to register and
create a profile page. To register to LinkedIn, you need to provide personal
information. You can update the profile with your education and job details
and a summary. Additionally, you can also give and receive recommendations
from co-workers and bosses. There are more than 75 million professionals
registered on LinkedIn.
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Bebo
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In the United Kingdom, Bebo is the
second best social network. Bebo allows users to create social networking
profiles for free. It offers many of the same features as other social
networking sites. You can register a free account with Bebo and upload
photos, videos and information. The site lets you connect with old friends
and make new ones using a unique user interface. The site boasts users from
more than a dozen countries, including the United States, Australia, Canada,
Poland, France and Germany.
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Friendster
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Friendster was one of the first
Web sites to bring it into mass culture. It was designed as a place to
connect with friends, family, colleagues and new friends over the Internet.
However, it went beyond just a one-way communication. Using Friendster, you
can connect with friends and family, meet new people through the connections
you already have, find people with similar interests, backgrounds or
geographical locations, join groups by activity, school or interest, interact
through message posts, games, blogs and application sharing, and share your
details with the Internet community.
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Hi5
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Hi5 shares many similarities with
many social network sites; however, it introduces some twists that make it
worthwhile for people who love trying out new and interesting online
communities. However, it is not one of the popular sites in the United
States. This was a strategic move from the founder, therefore, Hi5 claims
around 60 million members from more than 200 countries other than the US. One
of the site's biggest transformations is the addition of many entertainment
options, including games.
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Habbo
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The Habbo online community is
inhabited by pixelated, cartoon-character alter egos. You can meet others in
public rooms (nightclubs, restaurants, shops) and create private rooms for
selected friends. Habbo employees heavily moderate the site, catering to its
solid teen user base. Most of the users of Habbo are between the age group of
13 – 18 years. Although, a major part of the users are from the U.S., Habbo
social networks is very popular in places like the United Kingdom, Japan,
Sweden, Spain, Italy, Finland and more. - See more at:
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Ning
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Ning is the leading online
platform for the world's organizers, activists and influencers to create
social experiences that inspire action. It helps you create a safe and secure
place online for like-minded people. Ning takes the idea of groups to a whole
new level. The ability to create your own community makes Ning a great home
away from home for organizations and groups looking to fill the social void.
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Callmates
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Classmates.com is different from
most social networks, in the sense that most of its features are available to
premium member. The price for premium members depends on the length of the
agreement – shorter term results in a higher cost per month. Classmates.com
is primarily used to reconnect with old classmates. The site features a
search engine that lets you view other people who went to the same school you
attended. Creating a basic Classmates.com profile is free and easy. However,
most of the advanced features in Classmates.com are only available to paid
users.
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Tagged
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Tagged is a blend of social
networking features that MySpace and Facebook users will find very familiar.
Tagged was designed to help users meet lots of new people with similar
interests in a short amount of time. You can access and register directly or
be invited by a friend to join Tagged. This is a free social network that allows
you to view your friends’ newly uploaded Tagged photo album. Tagged
encourages its users to meet strangers based on shared interests, with the
idea of growing your network to meet as many people as possible.
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My Yearbook
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myYearbook, the best place to meet
new people and one of the 25 most-trafficked sites in the United States.
myYearbook has Flash-based games, and the games incorporate Lunch Money (the
myYearbook virtual currency). It includes a virtual economy through which
people can purchase of gifts which members send to each other. Lunch Money is
also donated by members to their favourite charity. In 2010, myYearbook
donated money to the Haiti Relief Fund to help victims of the earthquake in
Haiti.
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Meetup
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Meetup is an online social
networking portal that facilitates offline group meetings in various
localities around the world. It makes it easy for anyone to organize a local
group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face. More than
2,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the
goal of improving themselves or their communities.
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MyLife
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MyLife (formerly Reunion.com) is a
social network service. MyLife can search over 60 social-networking sites and
other information resources on the Web. MyLife searches the web to deliver
accurate and timely results. Even in cases when you don't immediately find
who you're looking for, MyLife continues searching and provides updates and
alerts. MyLife suggests friends and contacts you may know based on your
profile information and existing contacts. It also intimates you when someone
else is looking for you. MyLife gives you a global view into the most popular
sites your friends are part of, including LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace as
well as 50 other sites. -
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Lixster
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Flixster is a social networking
site for movie fans. Users can create their own profiles, invite friends,
rate movies and actors, and post movie reviews as well. From the site, people
can also get information about movies, read user-generated movie reviews and
ratings, converse with other users, get movie show times, view popular
celebrity photos, read the latest movie news, and view video clips from
popular movies and TV shows. Flixster.com also operates leading movie
applications on Facebook, MySpace, iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry.
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MyHeritage
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MyHeritage is a family-oriented
social network service and genealogy website. It allows members to create
their own family websites, share pictures and videos, organize family events,
create family trees, and search for ancestors. There are more than 15 million
family trees and 91 million photos on the site, and the site is accessible in
over 50 languages.
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Multiply
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Multiply is a vibrant social
shopping destination, but faster and more convenient, where sellers and
buyers interact. A user's network is made up of their direct contacts, as
well as others who are closely connected to them through their first-degree
relationships. Users are also encouraged to specify the nature of their
relationship with one another, making it possible to share content based on relationship.
Many shoppers in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand
and Vietnam have made the Multiply Marketplace a favourite shopping destination.
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Orkut
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Orkut is a free social networking
website where you can create a profile, connect with friends, maintain an
online scrapbook and use site features and applications to share your
interests and meet others. The prerequisite for logging on to Orkut is that
the user must be over 18 years old. Currently, Orkut is the most popular in
Brazil. The number of orkut users in India is almost equivalent to those in
its original home in the United States.
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Badoo
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Badoo is a multi-lingual social
networking website. It is gaining popularity in emerging markets like Russia
and Brazil. The site allows users to create profiles, send each other
messages, and rate each other’s profile pictures at no cost. However,
features that are designed to make user profile more visible to other users
are provided at a cost. Badoo includes geographic proximity feature that
identifies users’ locations based on analysis of their network connection.
This lets users know if there are people near their current location who may
wish to meet.
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Gaia Online
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Gaia Online is a mix of social
networking and massive multiplayer online role-playing games. It is a leading
online hangout for teens and young adults, and offers a wide range of
features from discussion forums and virtual towns to fully customizable
profiles and avatars. It provides a fun, social environment that inspires
creativity and helps people make meaningful connections around shared
interests such as gaming, arts and anime.
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Black Planet
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Initially, BlackPlanet was
designed as a way for African-American professionals to network. Since then,
it's grown and evolved as a site operating under the principles of Web 2.0.
Members can read other members' blogs, watch music videos, chat with one
another, look for new careers and discuss news. Though BlackPlanet is not
restricted to any community, this site is more popular amongst
African-American. This site helped Obama to connect to nearly 300,000
potential supporters.
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Sky Rock
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SkyRock.com is a social networking
site that offers its members free web space where they can create a blog, add
a profile, and exchange messages with other registered members. The site also
offers a specific space for members who create blogs showcasing their
original musical compositions. SkyRock is very popular in France and French
speaking markets including Switzerland and Belgium. The site is also
available in English, German, Dutch and Spanish. It’s very popular in the
European Union
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PerfSpot
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PerfSpot provides a web portal for
people of any age, gender, or background to share their interests and
favourite things on the web. PerfSpot currently publishes its site in 37
different languages, with comprehensive moderator team based in the U.S. and
the Philippines that screens through up to a million pictures on a daily
basis.
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Zorpia
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Zorpia.com is a social network
that has a large international community. Zorpia’s features include profile
customization, networking features and an incredibly detailed search. Zorpia
has an impressive music section featuring popular artists like Ashlee Simpson,
Vanessa Hudgens, Alanis Morissette and more. You can purchase a Royal
Membership for extra networking options such as an ad–free profile, extra
profile design features and unlimited messaging.
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Netlog
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Netlog (formerly known as Facebox
and Bingbox) is a Belgian social networking website specifically targeted at
the European youth demographic. On Netlog, you can create your own web page
with a blog, pictures, videos, events and much more to share with your
friends. Netlog is pageview market leader in Belgium, Italy, Austria,
Switzerland, Romania and Turkey. In the Netherlands, Germany, France and
Portugal, Netlog covers the second place. Pan European, Netlog is the market
leader. Netlog is localized in over 25 languages, to enable users from around
the world to access the network
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Tuenti
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Tuenti is an invitation-only
private social networking website. It has been referred to as the
"Spanish Facebook”, by many social network watchers. It is one of the
largest social networking sites in Spain. It allows you to set up a profile,
upload photos, link videos and connect and chat with friends. Many other
utilities, such as the ability to create events, are also offered. From 2009,
utilizing a simple interface, Tuenti user can change their language to
Catalán, Basque, Galician, and English. Tuenti is also available as an iPhone
App.
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Naza-Klasa.Pl
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asza-klasapl is considered one of
the largest and most used social networking sites in Poland. It primarily
brings together school's students and alumni. The site is in polish therefore
restricting its popularity only to Poland and polish speaking people.
Nevertheless, it claims to be the most popular networking site in Poland, and
therefore, has found its niche in the competitive social networking space.
The site where one might say, new meets old, where the intractability is like
Facebook, yet traditional with old styled forums.
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Studivz
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StudiVZ is the biggest social
networking site in Germany. It is also popular in German-speaking countries
like Switzerland and Austria. This site works as a student directory in
particular for college and university students in Europe. The site allows students
to maintain a personal page that containing their personal information like
name, age, study subjects, interests, courses and group memberships.
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Xing
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Xing, (formally known as
openBC/Open Business Club) is a professional networking tool. It is popular
in countries like Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy and France. Xing is similar
to LinkedIn and claims to have professionals from over 200 countries. Xing
has two features Basic and Premium, depending on weather the user wants to
use the site for free or at a cost. It is available in different languages
including English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Dutch, Chinese,
Finnish, Swedish, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Turkish and Hungarian;
French and German being the most popularly.
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Renren
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Renren (formerly called Xiaonei
Network) is one of the largest social networking sites in China, and caters
to people of Chinese origin. It is very popular amongst college students.
Renren also has a WAP version, which users can access through mobile phones.
It features an instant messaging service for its users. Users can use the
same username to log in both Renren and Kaixin. Renren appeals more to
Chinese college students who use internet cafes, while Kaixin001 targets
Chinese white-collar workers who have internet access at work.
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Kaixin001
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Kaixin001 is a popular
professional networking tool in China. The target audience for Kaixin’s, are
typically white-collar middle class who come from a first tier city. This
site in China is extremely popular among people who work for multinational
companies, ad agencies and other white collar companies. Kaixin001 has gained
much more popularity since 2009, because social networking sites, such as
Myspace, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube were blocked in China.
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Millat Facebook
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MillatFacebook is a
Muslim-oriented social networking website. Originally launched in Pakistan,
it has gained popularity in Arab counties as well. This site came into
existence after Facebook was banned in Pakisthan. Millatfacebook offers video
chat, bulletins, blogs, polls, shout box, and customization of profile page.
Members can change the page CSS and design it on their own will.
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