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Facebook.com: Was initially intended for college
students -- it branched out, and now allows everyone
membership. 150 million members.
MySpace.com:
191 million members. This site is massive, boasting the
largest membership of any social networking site on the
Internet.
Linkedin.com: 12.5 million members -- a powerful tool
for business networking.
Friendster.com: 29 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 2.75 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 57 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: 40 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:
40 million members. Xanga is a free Web-based service
that hosts weblogs, photoblogs, videoblogs, audioblogs,
and social networking profiles.
Care2.com:
7.2 million members. Care2 is a social networking
website that was founded to help connect activists from
around the world.
Ryze.com:
.25 million 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,
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