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List of social networking websites
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of major active social networking websites; for defunct social networking Web sites see List
of defunct social networking websites
Please note the list is not exhaustive, and is limited to some notable, well known sites.
Global Alexa
Registered [1] Page
Name Description/Focus Registration
users
ranking
Free and open source software
13,575[2] 118,513[3]
Open
Advogato
developers
29,808[4]
Music Open
Amie Street
14,345[5]
Books Open
ANobii
270,000[6] 9,306[7]
European jet set and social elite Invite-only
aSmallWorld
Running, Swimming, Cycling, Mountain [8] 94,171[9]
Open
Athlinks
Biking, Triathlon, and Adventure Racing 54,270
Online games. Open
Avatars United
Open to people 18
13,000,000
213[11]
General, Popular in Europe
Badoo
and older
[10]
General, Popular in France, Belgium and Open to people 13
1,000,000[12] and older 2,946[13]
Bahu
Europe
Open to people 13
40,000,000
108[15]
General.
Bebo
and older
[14]
Requires Norwegian
Norwegian Community.
Biip
phone number.
20,000,000
901[17]
African-Americans Open
BlackPlanet
[16]
Open to age 30 and
15,318[18]
Boomers and Generation Jones
Boomj.com
up
322,715[19]
Broadcaster.com Video sharing and webcam chat Open
10,000,000
498[21]
Music and pop-culture Open
Buzznet
[20]
Open to moms and
1,250,000[22] moms-to-be 3,090[23]
Mothers
CafeMom
Investing Open
Cake Financial
9,961,947[24] Open
Green living and social activism
Care2
50,000,000
923[26]
School, college, work and the military Open
Classmates.com
[25]
General. Popular in Iran. Open
Cloob
requires an e-mail
College students. address with an
College Tonight
quot;.eduquot; ending
Worldwide network for making
871,049[27] Open
CouchSurfing
connections between travelers and the
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local communities they visit.
Social networking site for women from
41,516[28]
South East Asia (especially Singapore), Open
CozyCot
East Asia, North America and Australia.
9,040,962[29] Open 119[30]
Art community
DeviantART
Clubbing (primarily UK) Open
DontStayIn
Community and wiki around Fantasy and Open, approval
185,000[31]
Elftown
sci-fi. needed
Open to people 13
13,675[32]
For baby boomers
Eons.com
and older
Teen networking site offering photos, Open to people 13
Espinthebottle
games, and relationships and older
Experience
Life experiences Open
Project
Open to people 13
235,000,000
5[34]
General.
Facebook
and older.
[33]
Invitation only to
200,000[35] 2,481[36]
General. Popular UK.
Faceparty
people 18 and older.
Open to people 13
British teens
Faces.com
and older
Open to people quot;of
32,500[37] 54,198[38]
People who are into BDSM [legal] age to see
Fetlife
adult contentquot;
Open to people 13
63,000,000
309[40]
Movies
Flixster
and older
[39]
Photo sharing, commenting, photography
37[41]
Open
Flickr
related networking, worldwide
Photoblogging. Popular in South 20,000,000
57[43]
Open
Fotolog
America and Spain. [42]
UK based. School, college, work, sport 19,000,000
8,052[45]
Open
Friends Reunited
and streets [44]
Open to people 16
90,000,000
35[47]
General. Popular in ASEAN countries.
Friendster
and older.
[46]
General Open
Frühstückstreff
1,200,000[48] Open 2,609[49]
dating, an quot;online barquot; for 18 and older
Fubar
Open to people 13
Anime and games
Gaia Online
and older
Article, picture, and video sharing, as
465,000[50] Open
Gather
well as group discussions
15,000,000
Families, genealogy Open
Geni.com
[51]
Business Promotion, Professional
45,000[52] Open
gibLink.com
Connections,
5,305[53]
Library cataloging, book lovers Open
Goodreads
Open to people 16
Gossipreport.com Anonymous gossip
and older
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Poland Open since 2009
Grono.net
General for teens. Over 31 communities 117,000,000 Open to people 13
4,050[57]
Habbo
worldwide. Chat Room and user profiles. [54][55][56] and older
General. Popular in Angola, Portugal,
Open to people 13
80,000,000
16[59]
Cyprus, Romania, Thailand, Central
hi5
and older
[58]
Africa and Latin America.
328,629[60]
Hospitality Club Hospitality Open
8,000,000[61] Open 216[62]
Most popular Dutch social network
Hyves
24,000,000
140[64]
Music, Video, Photos, Blogs Open
imeem
[63]
Open to Finnish
505,000[65]
Finland speaking people 12
IRC-Galleria
and older
Learning languages, and helping others
350,000 Open
Italki
to learn
Mobile community worldwide, blogging,
2,500,000.[66]
itsmy
friends, personal TV-shows
1,700,000[67] Invite-only
Hungary
iWiW
Iranian social network, Only for persian
Open
ircloop
language people
You must request an
General. Owned by Google. invitation into the
Jaiku
beta-test
Open to the General
Creative resource website
Jammer Direct
Public
30,000[68]
General, nonprofit
kaioo
General. In Simplified Chinese; caters Open to the General
kaixin
for mainland China users Public
Open to people 13
21,000,000
262[70]
Music
Last.fm
and older
[69]
Open to people 13
400,000[71]
Book lovers
LibraryThing
and older
Open to people 18
Shared interests, hobbies
lifeknot
and older.
35,000,000
192[73]
General but mainly business Open
LinkedIn
[72]
17,564,977
56[75]
Blogging Open (OpenID)
LiveJournal
[74]
Languages. Used to learn and help others
1,000,000[76] Open 5,505[77]
Livemocha
learn languages.
Sweden Open
LunarStorm [78]
General Open
MEETin
General. Used to plan offline meetings Open to people 18
Meetup.com
for people interested in various activities. and older.
Business and Finance community,
Open
Meettheboss
worldwide.
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20,936,509
64[80]
Japan Invite-only
Mixi
[79]
Open to people 18
mobile community, UK only
mobikade
and older
Open to people 14
3,000,000[81] and older
mobile community, worldwide
MocoSpace
Open to people 14
Music
MOG
and older
Open to people 13
10,000,000
150[83]
quot;Real worldquot; relationships
Multiply
and older
[82]
Open to people 13
50,000[84] 94,338[85]
Muslim portal site
Muxlim
and older
144,295[86] 33,621[87]
Christian Churches Open
MyChurch
family-oriented social network service Open
MyHeritage
General. Popular in the United States, Open to ages 13 and
32,000[88] 253,145[89]
MyLOL
Europe and Australia. up.
Open to ages 14 and
253,145,404
6[70]
General.
MySpace
up.
[90]
Open to age 13 and
5,100,000[91] up & Grades 9 and 894[92]
General
myYearbook
up
School, college and friends. Popular in 12,000,000 Open
Nasza-klasa.pl
Poland. [93]
36,000,000
General. Popular in Europe and Québec
Open to people 13
[94]
98[96]
province. Formerly known as Facebox
Netlog
and older
and Redbox. [95]
Norwegian Community. Open
Nettby
Open to people 14
1,400,000[97] and older 4,362[98]
Canada
Nexopia
Users create their own social websites
Open 566
Ning
and social networks
General. Popular in Russia and former
42[99]
30,000,000 Open
Odnoklassniki.ru
Soviet republics
Open to people 18
Social networking and dating
OkCupid
and older
Open to people 18
Owned by Google. Popular in Brazil, 67,000,000
11[101]
and older, (Google
Orkut
Paraguay, India, Pakistan and Estonia. [100]
login)
Not for Profit Video sharing and social
networking aimed at people interested in
Open
OneWorldTV
social issues, development, environment,
etc.
OUTeverywhere Gay/LGBTQ Community Open
Travel Open
Passportstamp
Collaborative platform for the world's Invite-only, only
Pingsta
Internetwork Experts Internet Experts
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15,000,000
Aggregator Open
Plaxo
[102]
Swedish, Danish,Norwegian teenagers Open
Playahead
Open to college
Online college community students with .edu e-
Playboy U
mail address
27,061[103]
Micro-blogging, RSS, updates Open
Plurk
A social network for artists, filmmakers, Open to people 14
quarterlife
musicians, and creative people and older
Invite-only while in
270,000[104]
Knitting and crochet
Ravelry
beta
Locating friends and family, keeping in 51,000,000
2,311[106]
Open
Reunion.com
touch [105]
Social network for scientific researchers 25,000 Open
ResearchGATE
Open to people 16
Social network for musician and bands 25,000
Reverbnation
and older
500,000[107]
Business Open
Ryze
By invitation, but can
Collaborative network site for scientists
scispace.net
request an invitation
Books Open
Shelfari
Social Network in French-speaking 22,000,000
41[109]
Open
Skyrock
world [108]
General. Popular in Latin America and
Open to people 13
17,000,000
297[112]
Spanish and Portuguese speaking
Sonico.com
and older.
[110][111]
regions.
154,672[113]
Music Open
Soundpedia
5,568[114]
Business networking Open
Spoke
2,000,000[115] Open
Live video streaming and chat.
Stickam
University students, mostly in the
8,000,000[116] Open
StudiVZ
German-speaking countries
70,000,000
94[118]
General Open
Tagged.com
[117]
395,824[119]
Business networking Open
Talkbiznow
Online artistic community Open
Taltopia
TravBuddy.com Travel Open
Travel Open
Travellerspoint
3,517[120]
General Open
tribe.net
4,400,000[121]
French subsidiary of Classmates.com
Trombi.com
587[122]
General. Very Popular in Spain Invite-only
Tuenti.com
2,200,000
599[124]
Micro-blogging, RSS, updates Open
Twitter
[123]
29,000,000
27[126]
Russian social network. Open
V Kontakte
[125]
Open to users 13 and
1,931,049
Gothic and industrial subculture
Vampirefreaks
over
[127]
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European Social Networking and 6,000,000 Open
Viadeo
Campus Networking in Seven Languages [128]
1,549[129]
Blogging Open
Vox
General Open
Wasabi
Open to people 18
10,000,000
823[131]
Travel and lifestyle
WAYN
and older
[130]
WebBiographies Genealogy and biography Open
Windows Live 120,000,000
4[133]
Blogging (formerly MSN Spaces) Open
Spaces [132]
Questions and answers about anything
50,000[134] Open
Wis.dm
and everything
Online community space for the social Open to people 18
20,600[136] 114,942[137]
WiserEarth
and environmental movement [135] and older
27,000,000
230[139]
Blogs and quot;metroquot; areas Open
Xanga
[138]
Business (primarily Europe (Germany)
6,000,000[140] Open 1,814[141]
XING
and China)
15,000,000
Significant site in China Open
Xiaonei
[142]
Catholic social networking, created after
Open
Xt3
World Youth Day 2008
Local Business Review and Talk Open
Yelp, Inc.
UK Social Network (focus on data
Open
Youmeo
portability)
References
1. ^ Alexa Top 500 Sites
2. ^ Advogato User Stats
3. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
4. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
5. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
6. ^ New York Times Online edition
7. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
8. ^ quot;Athlinks.comquot;. December 28, 2008. http://www.athlinks.com.
9. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
10. ^ Guardian Interview with Badoo's Communications Director, Lucy George
11. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
12. ^ quot;Bahu's video player and one million usersquot;. fr.techcrunch.com. http://fr.techcrunch.com/2008/08/07/lete-en-
fete-pour-bahucom-des-blogs-un-lecteur-video-et-un-million-dutilisateurs/. Retrieved on 2008-07-20.
13. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
14. ^ quot;Bebo talking with mobile portalsquot;. The Australian. December 3, 2007.
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15. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
16. ^ Silicon Alley Insider: April 11, 2008
17. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
18. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
19. ^ Quantcast ratings for broadcaster.com
20. ^ Buzznet information page
21. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
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22. ^ quot;Mothers' little helperquot;. Crain’s New York Business. May 3, 2008.
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080504/FREE/876270075.
23. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
24. ^ Care2.com homepage
25. ^ TechCrunch highlights S1 filing, September 2007 user numbers
26. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
27. ^ http://www.couchsurfing.com/statistics.html
28. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
29. ^ quot;Deviant Artquot;. 2008-12-10. http://www.deviantart.com/. Retrieved on 2008-12-10.
30. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
31. ^ | Elftown
32. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
33. ^ Cnet
34. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
35. ^ Faceparty announced removing 7 million account in a mass message to all members, therefore leaving
200,000
36. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
37. ^ Facebook for the kinky (as of Aug. 2008)
38. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
39. ^ flixster home page stats (as of June 11, 2008)
40. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
41. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
42. ^ Hispanic PR Wire August 20, 2008
43. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
44. ^ The Guardian: April 29 2008
45. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
46. ^ Friendster reported number, May 2008
47. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
48. ^ Jangl Voice-Enables Fubar: Suddenly, It'S Easy To Talk To Someone You Meet At ''The First Online Bar
And Happy Hour''
49. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
50. ^ Gather Article by Altair Ego
51. ^ Geni Home Page
52. ^ gibLink Home Page
53. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
54. ^ Habbo Info
55. ^ Habbo UK Articles
56. ^ quot;Don't be lonely at Christmas timequot;. BBC News. December 24, 2007.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7140599.stm.
57. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
58. ^ USA Today Online edition
59. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
60. ^ HospitalityClub Website
61. ^ Hyves Homepage
62. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
63. ^ CNET: March 24, 2008
64. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
65. ^ IRC-Galleria
66. ^ Green, Tim. quot;Itsmy socialises Italiansquot;. Mobile Entertainment. http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/30013/Itsmy-
socialises-Italians. Retrieved on 2008-04-15.
67. ^ quot;iWiW users double since purchase by T-Onlinequot;. Europe Intelligence Wire. January 24, 2007.
68. ^ EditorsWeblog Article January 2008
69. ^ quot;CBS ups social networking ante with Last.fm acquisitionquot;. Computerworld.com. 2007-05-30.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9021918. Retrieved
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70. ^ a b Alexa Traffic Details
71. ^ Library Thing Press Release
72. ^ LinkedIn
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73. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
74. ^ Livejournal Statistics
75. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
76. ^ Livemocha has 1 million members!
77. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
78. ^ [1]
79. ^ Mixi counter
80. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
81. ^ TMCnet
82. ^ [2]
83. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
84. ^ Muslim social media website claims 1m users per month
85. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
86. ^ [www.mychurch.org]
87. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
88. ^ MyLOL.net
89. ^ quot;Alexa the Web Information Companyquot;
90. ^ quot;Alexa the Web Information Companyquot;
91. ^ myYearbook Press Release, Dec. 18, 2007
92. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
93. ^ Gazeta.pl
94. ^ quot;How Netlog Leaps Language Barriersquot;. The Wall Street Journal. November 1, 2007.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119387616952078433-
jqe372LNIRy_8HI5PymOiR5Ff84_20071201.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top.
95. ^ quot;Netlog Corporate statsquot;. Netlog. June 10, 2008. http://corporate.netlog.com/stats/.
96. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
97. ^ Nexopia.com
98. ^ Alexa traffic details
99. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
100. ^ InformationWeek: December 20, 2007
101. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
102. ^ quot;Is Plaxo on the Block?quot;. Reuters. January 4, 2008. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-
Collaboration/Is-Plaxo-on-the-Block/.
103. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
104. ^ Ravelry homepage
105. ^ Web Strategist: Jan. 9, 2008
106. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
107. ^ quot;Fresh opportunities for older workersquot;. Chicago Tribune: p. 8 (Employment Outlook 2008 section). January
6, 2008.
108. ^ Sinlung News (March 11, 2008)
109. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
110. ^ Sonico: The Largest Social Network in Latin America? (Mashable)
111. ^ Social networking page Sonico counts 15 mln users (Telecom Paper)
112. ^ Traffic details in Alexa
113. ^ Traffic details from Alexa
114. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
115. ^ Fans Hang Out With Underoath on Stickam.com - Zibb.com
116. ^ studiVZ | Über uns
117. ^ Tagged Inc
118. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
119. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
120. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
121. ^ | Trombi.com
122. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
123. ^ TwitDir - a Twitter directory - Find your friends and more on Twitter!
124. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
125. ^ Main page of vkontakte.ru
126. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
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127. ^ http://vampirefreaks.com/
128. ^ http://www.viadeo.com/
129. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
130. ^ quot;Don't be lonely at Christmas timequot;. BBC News. December 24, 2007.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7140599.stm.
131. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
132. ^ Windows Live Spaces Fact Sheet - August 2006 Retrieved May 3, 2008
133. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
134. ^ Accelerated Ideas as of January 2008
135. ^ Treehugger article
136. ^ WiserEarth homepage(includes stats)
137. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
138. ^ Mashable: '27 Million Bloggers and Counting' August 13, 2006
139. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
140. ^ quot;XING Corporate Information - Q&Asquot;. XING. http://corporate.xing.com/english/investor-relations/basic-
information/q-as/#c456. Retrieved on 2008-09-12.
141. ^ Alexa Traffic Details
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