Sunday, January 16, 2011

The TOP 15 most important social networking sites.

The following list are the most important social networking sites as of today. The list are not based on the popularity of the sites nor how old the website is running. This is based on its importance to people's lives, self improvement, business, friendship, and how we live our lives.

  • Facebook - Initially intended for college students, then branched out by invite, and continuously growing with over 500 million members.
  • Twitter - A free social networking service that allows users to send "updates" (text-based posts that are up to 140 characters long) via SMS, instant messaging, email, the Twitter website, or an application such as Twitterrific. The site has become very popular in only a few months with over 75 million members.
  • MySpace - Over 130 million members. this site is massive, boasting the largest membership of any social networking site on the internet.
  • Linkedin - Over 75 million members. a powerful for business networking. mainly used by businessmen and organizations.
  • Foursquare - Foursquare is a social networking site build by Google that shares your global location by checking in, sending shout out, and even promote the location by leaving tips.
  • Friendster - It was considered the top online social networking service until it was overtaken by MySpace at around April 2004. Demographic studies shows that users are between 17 to 30 years of age and over 90 million members.
  • StumbleUpon - Boasting over 13 million users, StumbleUpon is a web browser plugin that allows its users to discover and rate web pages, photos, videos, and news article. We usually see this plugin on social bookmarking tools like addThis, shareThis, etc.. A great way to promote websites. It was bought by eBay for $75 million in May 2007.
  • Delicious - The website delicious which is formerly known as "del.icio.us" is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in late 2003, and is now part of Yahoo!
  • Digg - Digg is a website made for people to share and discover content on the internet by submitting links and stories, then people votes and comments on submitted contents in a social and democratic spirit.
  • Orkut - Orkut is an Internet social networking service run by Google and named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. It claims to be designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. Now has a membership of 100 million.
  • Classmates - Over 50 million members. One of the oldest social networking sites around, Classmates was kicked off in 1995, and has proven to be a great way for members to to connect with old friends and acquaintances from throughout their lives.
  • Meetup - Over 2 million members. Meetup.com is an online social networking portal that facilitates offline group meetings in various localities around the world. Meetup allows members to find and join groups unified by a common interest, such as politics, books, games, movies, health, pets, careers or hobbies.
  • Yahoo! Pulse - Formerly known as Yahoo! 360° (a.k.a Yahoo! Days) is a personal communication portal similar to Orkut and MySpace -- it is now launched for public used already. It integrates features of social networking, blogging and photo sharing sites.
  • Xanga - Over 27 million members. Xanga the blogging community is a free Web-based service that hosts weblogs, photoblogs, videoblogs, audioblogs, and social networking profiles.
  • Care2 - Over 14 million members. Care2 is a social networking website that was founded to help connect activists from around the world.
In all, there are over 100 social networking sites on the Internet. Some of the other social networking sites that I have not included in the list above are:

Ryze, Bebo, BlackPlanet.com, Flickr.com, Reunion.com, aSmallWorld, Bebo, BlackPlanet.com, Blue Dot, Bolt, Broadcaster.com, Buzznet, CarDomain, Consumating, Couchsurfing, Cyworld, Dandelife, DeadJournal, DontStayIn, Doostang, Ecademy, eSPIN, Faceparty, Flirtomatic, Fotki, Friends Reunited, Gaia Online, Geni.com, GoPets, Graduates.com, Grono.net, Hyves, imeem, Infield Parking, IRC-Galleria, iWiW, Joga, Bonito, Last.fm, LibraryThing, LiveJournal, LunarStorm, MEETin, MiGente.com, Mixi, MOG, Multiply, My Opera Community, myYearbook, Netlog, Nexopia, OUTeverywhere, Passado, Piczo, Playahead, ProfileHeaven, Pownce, RateItAll, Searchles, Sconex, Shelfari, Soundpedia, Sportsvite, Studivz, TagWorld, TakingITGlobal, The Doll Palace, The Student Center, Threadless, TravBuddy.com, Travellerspoint, Tribe.net, Vampire Freaks, Vox, WAYN, WebBiographies, Windows Live Spaces, Woophy, XING, Xuqa, Yelp, Zaadz, Zooomr
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