The usual social networks
MySpace is the largest social network in the world. It has won the United States with great speed, now MySpace has about 80 million users. In 2005, it was bought by Newscorp for $ 580 million. MySpace continues to develop rapidly and at the moment it determines the development of social networks.
Recommended for: teenagers, young people
Bebo-unlike Americanized MySpace, Bebo is designed for other English-speaking countries such as England, Australia and New Zealand. Bebo functions are very similar to MySpace. Initially, Bebo was created in order to communicate between friends, but later the network has grown and currently has about 40 million users.
Recommended for: teenagers, young people
Tagworld was founded in the fall of 2005. Direct competitor to MySpace. Stands out for the excellent implementation of Web 2.0 (tagging, AJAX). Also in Tagworld there is a search engine for music and IM client with the possibility of video chat.
Recommended for: teenagers, young people
Orkut is a product created by a Google programmer in his spare time (You know, every Google programmer has the right to spend 20% of his working time on his own projects). Orkut began its development in the US, but later became widespread in Brazil (about 65% of users).
Recommended: Brazilian youth.
AIM pages is the youngest social network among the most popular. This is an attempt by AOL to oust MySpace in the social media market. It was believed that AIM Pages will be a real breakthrough, but it still has everything ahead.
Recommended for: teenagers, young people
Hi5-has about 40 million users. You have to pay for participation in this social network. One of the distinctive features of the system is that you can download music from iTunes for money and add it to your profile. On a free account, you can upload photos to a Gigabyte. Hi5 has profiles for Kelly Clarkson, Jessica Simpson, Tira banks.
Recommended for: teenagers, young people
Panjea is a social network with economy founded this year. Offers several ways to get paid for their creative work. There is a unique points system.
Recommended for: teenagers, young people
Cyworld [US] - appeared in Korea and has grown to phenomenal sizes. The daily income of this network is about 300,000 dollars. Now Cyworld is gradually spreading to the United States. The network has its own currency ( acorns), as well as each user has its own 'minihompy' (profile). Users can decorate their 'minihompy' and keep in touch with each other.
Recommended: teenagers, young people, Koreans
Tagged-designed mainly for teenagers. The main idea is to be tagged, create tagging teams and earn points in order to become the coolest tagging team. Tagged is slowly gaining popularity among teenagers in the US, but compared to MySpace is always secondary.
Recommended for: teenagers
Popist is very similar to MySpace, both in its interface and in its direction. Offers users a large number of open functions, such as the ability to integrate with other social networks.
Recommended for: teenagers
Friendster-one of the first networks launched as a “social experiment”, recently acquired a patent “on social networks”. The network has grown very quickly, but today it has completely fallen and currently occupies less than 1% of the social networks market.
Recommended for: teenagers
Tribe - not so long ago this network was acquired by NBC. The main task of Tribe is not so much to meet and communicate, but to unite their own social networks of users. Provides the ability to create so-called “clans”,as well as very well localized at the expense of these same clans.
Recommended for: teenagers
Facebook is a startup from Silicon valley. It is widely spread among colleges and universities in most English-speaking countries. It is the second most popular network after MySpace in the USA. The network is not yet available in many countries, but it is growing steadily.
Recommended: College and University students
ConnectU is very similar to Facebook. It is also designed for College and University students. ConnectU, unlike Facebook, covers a much smaller number of colleges and universities around the world.
Recommended: College and University students
Yahoo! 360-launched in early 2005, Yahoo product that provides the ability to combine blogs and photo albums. Only for those over 18 years-this significantly reduces the list of potential users.
Recommended: adults
PeopleAggregator – Marc Canter's attempt to occupy a niche in the field of social networking. Based on open standards and functionalities. One of the distinctive features is that it is just a demo version of the software, which can be purchased later.
Recommended: adults.
Thematic social networks
MommyBuzz – launched just a couple of months ago, MommyBuzz-is designed to enable mothers to communicate over the Internet, share and exchange thoughts and ideas with other moms. A great place for such a task force.
Recommended: moms
MuslimSpace-created by a former computer science student at the American University of Sharjah, MuslimSpace fully lives up to its name – MySpace for Muslims. Today, the site has about 15,000 users, and its goal is to become a cleaner and more secure site than MySpace and, of course, only for Muslims.
Recommended: Muslims
Stardoll-would you like to dress celebrities as paper dolls? Originally called Paperdoll Heaven, Stardoll allows you to do just that. With a strong social network at the core and almost a million users, Stardoll is gaining mega popularity in the world of children and teenagers almost as well as Neopets a few years ago.
Recommended: children / teenagers
Imbee-there Are a lot of sites for teenagers, but what about children? The aim of Imbee is to provide a safe and secure social network for children. So now if your big brother brags about his MySpace profile and teases you that you can't have one of these, go for it on Imbee!
Recommended for: children
Dogster is a place where dogs (and their owners) can meet and communicate. On Dogster each dog has its own web page. The subtitle says: post photos of dogs, tell dog stories, make new friends (dogs)!
Recommended: dogs and their owners
Catster-almost twin brother of Dogster site, developed by the same people, Catster-this Dogster for cats. Post photos of cats, tell cat stories, make new friends (cats)! Do I need to explain anything else?
Recommended: cats and their owners
Fuzzster – being to some extent a combination of Dogster and Catster, Fuzzster is the place for your cats, dogs and other furry Pets. Launched in early 2004, it has grown into a fairly large community of animal lovers.
Recommended: for furry animals and their owners
BookCrossing-in the real world, bookcrossing is done like this: someone leaves a book in a public place to be taken and read by others and then do the same. The purpose of the BookCrossing website is to run the same process in the virtual world.
Recommended: book lovers
Boompa-this site is for motorists, and the Internet is certainly a lot of them. The goal of the network is to become your online garage. Motorists can boast here of their "cars", find recommendations for their improvement, meet other motorists, view videos and photos, as well as much more.
Recommended: motorists
Spout is a database of more than 250,000 movie titles, Spout is a social network for movie fans. Here you can find reviews and recommendations, meet other film fans. Spout is a place that is useful to visit before you are going to rent some movie.
Recommended: movie fans
MOG is a start-up from Silicon valley, the goal of MOG is to unite music lovers with the same interests. A very interesting way to meet new people, also here you can discover new musical directions, which you did not know before.
Recommended: for music lovers
Gusto. There are websites about cars, movies, music, books, animals, but what about traveling? Gusto is the place that connects travelers based on their life style (given in the preferences). Here you can also find tons of information, recommendations and reviews about your travels.
Yub.com -combines social networking and shopping. The purpose of the site Yub.com – to ensure the sustainability of shopping through the Internet. The 'cash back' system is used when, if some user helps another or Vice versa, both users have the opportunity to get CashBack. A fun way to shop.
Recommended: for (online) shopping
Yelp (from the creators of PayPal) - this site is very similar to Yub, created to help shoppers make decisions, showing them the reviews of other users. However, unlike Yub, Yelp is more focused on commercial activities and services than on consumer-oriented products. Currently only available in the USA.
Recommended: any residents of the United States (especially in big cities)
LinkedIn - according to surveys, the most popular business network, the goal of LinkedIn is to unite colleagues and business partners, to help find new ones. With around 5 million users, LinkedIn remains popular among business audiences.
Recommended: mercenaries and businessmen
biddingBuddies-often on auction sites like eBay you have to deal with many people. BiddingBuddies will help you with this. This is the only social network exclusively for eBay users. Now, if you are participating in an auction, why not make friends with opponents.
Recommended: eBay users (buyers and sellers)
Faqqly-there are so many things you would like to know about your friends, so why not ask them about it through Faqqly? Faqqly creates a FAQ (frequently asked questions) page for each user and allows friends to ask each other anything.
Recommended: curious-teenagers, young people
and what social network do you use ?
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