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Facebook.com:
Was initially intended for college students -- it
branched out, and now allows everyone membership.
500 million members.
MySpace.com:
130 million members. This site is massive,
boasting the largest membership of any social
networking site on the Internet.
Linkedin.com:
75 million members -- a powerful tool for business
networking.
Friendster.com: 90 million members.
Friendster was considered the top online social
networking service until around April 2004, when
it was overtaken by MySpace. Demographic studies
indicate users are from 17 to 30 years
old.
Stumbleupon.com: Boasting over 10
million users, StumbleUpon is a web browser plugin
that allows its users to discover and rate
webpages, photos, videos, and news articles. A
great way to get website promotion. Bought by
eBay for $75 million in May 2007.
del.icio.us:
The website del.icio.us (pronounced as
"delicious") 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.com:
Digg is a website made for people to discover and
share content from anywhere on the Internet, by
submitting links and stories, and voting and
commenting on submitted links and stories, in a
social and democratic spirit.
Orkut.com:
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.
Twitter.com:
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 -- a lot of people are
watching it.
Classmates.com: 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.com: 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! 360°
(a.k.a Yahoo! Days) is a personal communication
portal similar to orkut and MySpace -- it is
currently in the beta-testing phase. It integrates
features of social networking, blogging and photo
sharing sites.
Xanga.com: 27
million members. Xanga is a free Web-based service
that hosts weblogs, photoblogs, videoblogs,
audioblogs, and social networking
profiles.
Care2.com:
Over 9 million members. Care2 is a social
networking website that was founded to help
connect activists from around the world.
Ryze.com:
500, 000 members. Ryze.com is a free social
networking website designed to link business
professionals.
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:
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, Flickr, 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, Reunion.com,
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,
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