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This is a list of notable social networking websites.


Name Description/Focus Registered User count Registration
43 Things Tagging 627,000[1] Open
Advogato Free Software and Open Source developers 11,000[2] Open
aSmallWorld European jet set and social elite 150,000[3] Invite-only
Amiworthit Mutually good-looking students Hundreds[4] Open to students but approval based
BlackPlanet.com African-Americans 16,000,000[5] Open
Bebo Schools and colleges 31,700,000[6] Open
Blue Dot Link sharing 80,000[7] Open
Broadcaster Video sharing and webcam chat 26,000,000[8] Open
Blurty Blogs, based on LiveJournal 947,169[9] Open
Bolt General (music and video) 4,000,000[10] Open
CarDomain Car enthusiasts 1,600,000[11] Open
Care2 Green living and activism 6,900,000[12] Open
Classmates.com School, college, work and the military 40,000,000[13] Open
Consumating "Consumeetings" 21,000[14] Open
Cyworld Young South Koreans 15,000,000[15] Open
Dandelife Collective narratives or "shared biographies" Unknown Open
DeadJournal "Dark" blogs, based on LiveJournal 490,310[16] By invite or payment (OpenID)
Dodgeball.com Mobile location-based service Unknown[17] Open
DontStayIn Clubbing (primarily UK) 235,000+[18] Open
Doostang Careers 53,000[19] Invite-only
Ecademy Business 100,000[20] Open
eSPIN General 3,800,000[21] Open
Facebook College/High School students 16,000,000[22] Open
Facebox European young adults (14-24) 14,000,000[23] Open
Faceparty British teens and 20-somethings 5,900,000[24] Open
Flirtomatic Flirting/Dating 265,000[25] Open to people 18 and older.
Flickr Photo sharing 4,000,000[26] Open (Yahoo! login)
Fotki Photo sharing 1,000,000[27] Open
Friends Reunited School, college, work, sport and streets 12,000,000[28] Open
Friendster General 29,100,000[29] Open
Frühstückstreff General 10,100[30] Open
Gaia Online Anime and Games 5,000,000[31] Open
Gazzag General Unknown Open
GoPets Virtual pets 400,000[32] Open
Graduates.com School, college, and work 650,000[33] Open
GreatestJournal Blogs, based on LiveJournal 1,514,865[34] Open
Grono.net Poland 830,000[35] Invite-only
Hi5 General 50,000,000[36] Open
Hyves General; focus on students and Dutch speakers 2,311,790[37] Open
imeem Instant messaging Unknown[38] Open
IMVU 3D chat software 1,000,000[39] Open
IRC-Galleria Finland 400,000[40] Open
iWiW Hungary 1,500,000[41] Invite only
Joga Bonito Football (soccer) Unknown Open
Last.fm Music 15,000,000[42] Open
LinkedIn Business 8,500,000[43] Open
LiveJournal Blogging 10,921,263[44] Open (OpenID)
LunarStorm Sweden 1,200,000[45] Open
MEETin General 67,000[46] Open
MiGente.com Latinos 3,600,000[47] Open
Mixi Japan 8,000,000[48] Invite-only
MOG Music Unknown Open
Mugshot Live social experiences around entertainment Unknown Open
Multiply "Real world" relationships 3,000,000[49] Open
myGamma Cell phones 1,510,000[50] Open
MySpace General 162,400,000[51] Open
myYearbook General 950,000[52] Open
Nexopia Canada 989,000[53] Open
orkut Owned by Google 46,423,762 [54] Open (Google login)
Passado General 4,700,000[55] Open
Phrasebase Foreign Languages (education) 100,000[56] Open
Piczo Teenagers, Canadians, photo sharing 10,000,000[57] Open
Playahead Swedish teenagers 530,000[58] Open
ProfileHeaven British teens 100,000[59] Open
RateItAll Consumer ratings + social networking 900,000[60] Open
Rediff Connexions India 1,400,000[61] Open
Reunion.com Locating friends and family 25,000,000[62] Open
Ruckus Music 400,000[63] College students only
Ryze Business 250,000[64] Open
Sconex American high schools 500,000[65] Open
Studivz University students, mostly in the German-speaking countries 1,000,000 Open
Stumbleupon Websurfing 1,200,000[66] Open
TagWorld General (tagging) 1,850,692[67] Open
TakingITGlobal Social action 116,000[68] Open
The Student Center Teens and colleges 800,000[69] Open
Threadless Custom T-shirts 364,474 Open
Travellerspoint Travel 82,000[70] Open
Tribe General 602,876[71] Open
Vampire Freaks Gothic industrial culture 766,000[72] Open
VietSpace Vietnamese 20,000[73] Open
Vox Blogging Unknown Open
WAYN Travel & Lifestyle 7,000,000[74] Open to people 18 and older
WebBiographies Genealogy & Biography Unknown[75] Open
Windows Live Spaces Blogging (formerly MSN Spaces) 30,000,000[76] Open (Windows Live ID)
Xanga Blogs and "metro" areas 40,000,000[77] Open
XING Business 1,000,000[78] Open
Xuqa Colleges 1,000,000[79] Open
Yahoo! 360° Linked to Yahoo! IDs 4,700,000[80] Open to people 18 and older
(Yahoo! login)
Yelp United States adults Unknown Open
Zaadz Social consciousness 36,467[81] Open

See also

References

  1. ^ 43things, [1]. October 7, 2006.
  2. ^ http://daniel.haxx.se/advogato/stats-2006-06-03.html
  3. ^ International Herald Tribune article, Join? Well, if you have to ask.... 29 August, 2005.
  4. ^ Prose.
  5. ^ BlackPlanet, BlackPlanet homepage. Accessed 5 February, 2007.
  6. ^ BBC News article, Teen craze over networking sites. Accessed 6 March, 2007.
  7. ^ "Blue Dot Continues to Change the Way People Share with Friends" (PDF) (Press release). Blue Dot Inc. 2006-09-14. Retrieved 2006-12-14. {{cite press release}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ Quantcast ratings for broadcaster.com. February 2007.
  9. ^ Blurty's stat page as of 10 August 2006.
  10. ^ Bolt acquires UK SMS text messaging company Fonepark
  11. ^ http://www.cardomain.com/
  12. ^ Care2 statistics, Care2 Homepage. Accessed 25 January, 2007.
  13. ^ The View article, Take a Second Chance with that First Love. February 1, 2006.
  14. ^ Consumating.com, [2]. 10 August, 2006.
  15. ^ Business Week article, E-Society: My World Is Cyworld. September 26, 2005.
  16. ^ DeadJournal, DeadJournal.com statistics. 10 August 2006.
  17. ^ http://www.dodgeball.com/
  18. ^ http://www.dontstayin.com/pages/stats
  19. ^ http://www.doostang.com/
  20. ^ Ecademy announcement, [3]. 20 October, 2006.
  21. ^ [4]
  22. ^ About Facebook, accessed 1 February 2007.
  23. ^ Facebox Corporate Pages, accessed 10 March 2007.
  24. ^ Faceparty, Faceparty homepage. 13 April, 2006.
  25. ^ Flirtomatic, Flirtomatic homepage. 14 February, 2007.
  26. ^ Blog article, [5]. April 3, 2006.
  27. ^ Fotki Journal, Their "Blog" Entry - accessed 18 January 2007.
  28. ^ Friends Reunited, Their UK 'About Us' Page, accessed 1 February 2007.
  29. ^ Friendster, Friendster overview, 2006.
  30. ^ Frühstückstreff, [6], 2006.
  31. ^ http://www.gaiaonline.com/ as of 5 November 2006.
  32. ^ http://www.gopetslive.com/
  33. ^ Graduates [7], as of 21 December 2006.
  34. ^ http://www.greatestjournal.com/ as of 10 August 2006
  35. ^ Usercount is available to logged-in members
  36. ^ http://www.hi5networks.com/ as of 14 March 2007
  37. ^ http://hyves.nl/ as of 13 September 2006
  38. ^ http://www.imeem.com/
  39. ^ IMVU, IMVU Information. 2006.
  40. ^ Homepage. Accessed 14 February 2007.
  41. ^ Official iWiW blog. 19 July, 2006.
  42. ^ Interview with Martin Stiksel of last.fm. Accessed 18 February 2007
  43. ^ http://www.linkedin.com/ Number of accounts cited in feature article on LinkedIn in December issue of Business 2.0
  44. ^ http://www.livejournal.com/ (as of 15 August 2006).
  45. ^ PressBox.co.uk Press Release, LunarStorm launches new, fun, young adult and teen service in UK. 17 November 2005.
  46. ^ comdex score
  47. ^ http://migente.com/
  48. ^ Press Release by mixi, Inc. (in Japanese). 29 June 2007.
  49. ^ Multiply.com company blog entry. 25 August 2006.
  50. ^ mygamma.com, myGamma homepage. as of 23 February 2007.
  51. ^ Members' Homepage (you must be a logged in member to view usercount). Accessed 12 March 2007.
  52. ^ Web generation preserves memories online. 25 June, 2006.
  53. ^ http://www.nexopia.com/
  54. ^ Count based on number of people available in primary network as of 12 March 2007.
  55. ^ http://www.passado.com/index.aspx
  56. ^ http://www.phrasebase.com/
  57. ^ Wall Street Journal, "Myspace's New Rivals Are Winning Friends", September 29, 2006.
  58. ^ Press-release MTG/Playahead acquisition, 9 January 2007
  59. ^ ProfileHeaven Press Release, Profileheaven to Appoint Paul Myers to Board. March 18, 2006.
  60. ^ [8]
  61. ^ http://connexions.rediff.com/connexions/
  62. ^ http://www.reunion.com
  63. ^ https://www.ruckus.com/
  64. ^ Ryze, Ryze business networking. May 2006.
  65. ^ ClickZ article, Alloy Buys High School Social Networking Site. March 29, 2006
  66. ^ http://www.stumbleupon.com/about.html
  67. ^ http://tagworld.com/
  68. ^ http://www.takingitglobal.org/
  69. ^ http://www.student.com/mediakit.php
  70. ^ http://www.travellerspoint.com/stats.cfm
  71. ^ "browse people". Retrieved on 17 January 2007. Open to members only
  72. ^ http://vampirefreaks.com/
  73. ^ VietSpace member list
  74. ^ Media Week article, Media Run wins travellers' website account. 27 April, 2006.
  75. ^ Profiles featured on http://www.webbiographies.com/ front page are a sample, and not a complete list of members--as per email from Web Biographies' staff.
  76. ^ Trendwatching.com, Youniversal Branding. July 2006.
  77. ^ WPXI article, Warnings Issued For Popular Web Site. July 21, 2005.
  78. ^ openBC Press Release openBC hits the 1 million member mark. 31 January, 2006.
  79. ^ Xuqa, Xuqa homepage. April 13, 2006.
  80. ^ In the Race With Google, It’s Consistency vs. ‘Wow’. New York Times, 24 July 2006.
  81. ^ Zaadz People, Zaadzsters page. 15 December, 2006.
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