Talk:List of social networking services

This article was nominated for deletion in July 2006. The result of the discussion was keep. This article was nominated for deletion in January 2007. The result of the debate was also keep.

Zanby

May I ask why both the page for social networking site Zanby and the link from this list page were removed? Tomcat66 g500 (talk) 17:23, 2 January 2008 (UTC)Tomcat66 g500 16:56, 2 January 2008

because the article was speedily deleted as having not established notability per WP:WEB. this list only includes social networking sites which have an article on wikipedia.--Crossmr (talk) 17:26, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Habbo

Habbo should be added. See here.

Habbo is one the world’s largest and fastest growing virtual worlds and social networking services for teenagers. Localized Habbo communities all around the world are visited by millions of teenagers every week.

I understand that social networking has previously not been the main focus of Habbo, but this has changed with the advancement of the Internet, and Web 2.0. Habbo consists of two main features; a virtual world, which is presented in the form of a massage chat room, and user profile in which community members have the ability to express themselves by customizing and sharing content with each other through their own Habbo homepage.

It's clearly a social networking service, hence it should be added to the list. --Supermatique (talk) 02:33, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

These are the kinds of sites we've discussed before. Sites which weren't social networking, then because of web 2.0 throw a few social networking features on. Does it really make them social networking? This is a marketing description, and social networking is a buzzword (term) right now. If you actually go to the habbo sites themselves, I don't see social networking mentioned on the front page, its only referred to as a virtual world. Regardless of their marketing, the primary focuses seems to remain that of a virtual world.--Crossmr (talk) 05:02, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

I understand that. However, websites are changing their standards to meet with how the Internet is today, the service has existed since 2000 — and era when social networking websites weren't really around, they can't be blamed or restricted from being a social networking website just for moving along with the rapid future of technology today. The virtual world is just an advanced Chat room presented in the form of a virtual world which is a service they have made the focal point of their product, just like Last.fm made music the focal point of their service. However, they have not limited user interaction with various other services such as messaging, discussion groups and profiles. --Supermatique (talk) 10:09, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

No one is blaming them or restricting them. Not being on this list doesn't effect the site in anyway. However we have to look at whether or not social networking is their primary function. And there may be entries on this list which need to be removed. I've made one pass at it in an attempt to clean it up at some of the more obvious one, but each entry needs a little scrutiny to make sure it belongs here. For Habbo, while they've created the ability to have a profile and a friends list, social networking doesn't seem to be their main function, that's the key criterion for being on this list (in addition to being notable and already have an article on wikipedia) Thank you for bringing up Last.fm, because after I've gone and read the page, it doesn't seem like social networking is the primary function there either. Its a good spot to start the cleanup.--Crossmr (talk) 17:12, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

www.giblink.com

I would like to see www.giblink.com added to wikipedia. The site was banned because a past user tried to add the listing, but filled their submission with blatant advertising. A simple listing would cover the bases, and with 26,000 members signing up since September, it would seem this is a legitimate website for small and home-based businesses. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Msjvd (talk • contribs) 15:41, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Before adding a website to this page, a user has to write the article first. If the article does not follow Wikipedia policies and guidelines, especailly WP:V and WP:RS, it is likely to be deleted. Please do not add a site to this page before that is done. UnitedStatesian (talk) 15:58, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Yuwie and iYomu

I think both of these are notable and should be put on the list. 172.194.15.162 (talk)

Before adding a website to this page, a user has to write the article first. If the article does not follow Wikipedia policies and guidelines, especailly WP:V and WP:RS, it is likely to be deleted. Please do not add a site to this page before that is done. UnitedStatesian (talk) 13:54, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

www.seniorennet.be

18:29, 10 January 2008 (UTC)~

Hi,

I came to this page via google and looked at the list. I am member of www.seniorennet.be. And it is not in the list. There exists a Wikipedia article on it, on the Dutch Wikipedia: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seniorennet (didn't found any on the english one)

It is a Belgian website with over 1 000 000 members (I heared a few months ago over 1.3 million; but i am not 100% sure), and all the members are all seniors (50 years or older) and is one of the 10 biggest sites in our country. So it is maybe interesting to add it to the global list.

sorry if I am wrong if it isn't a good site for the list.

Until someone writes an article in English WP, the site should not be on this list. UnitedStatesian (talk) 19:17, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Ipernity.com

Maybe you might want to check Ipernity.com, a Flickr-alike growing site, with blog and multimedia file capacity. I have no idea about the number of users. It's France-based but pretty international and growing in Europe.

81.75.222.76 (talk) 09:09, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Unless it has an article on wikipedia which meets WP:WEB it won't be added to the list.--Crossmr (talk) 18:00, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

www.Connectture.com

A very interesting Social Business network which is growing, reminds me a bit of one of the big business networks. Connectture.com has a lot of usable features. Its a multilingual site, right now its in English, Swedish and Danish.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.94.215.181 (talk • contribs) 17:44, January 16, 2008

First it needs an article and to create the article it needs to meet the criteria laid out at WP:NOTE for web content.--Crossmr (talk) 01:40, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Fubar

Why is Fubar not added to this list?