Online Social Networking Sites
85I had two choices while writing this article: hunt down every online social networking site on the Internet and provide links but give little information about each, or provide more information about a decent selection of popular sites. I originally opted for the second choice, but then I thought of a third: review the more popular sites, and provide a link and a more abbreviated description for each of the rest. The result is the list below, which is only the first part of a larger collection of categorized sites.
If you know of any other online networking sites not included in the list at the end of this post, please leave a comment so I can add them. Thanks!
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Bebo
Bebo is a nicely designed site that offers online social networking where friends share information and explore different forms of entertainment. Their are a lot of cool applications that expand what you can do when you're in the Bebo environment, which means you'll probably want to have high speed internet service if you're a member. These include the BeFunky Cartoonizer that allows you to turn photos into cartoons; iLike, which lets you add music and videos to your profile; the ability to make song dedications to friends and participate in a music challenge; and much more. At the moment, this site is more popular in the U.K. than the U.S., but it can be used by anyone.
Bebo in the News
- Local snapshotsThe Montana Standard11 hours ago
Tech professors' papers accepted Two Montana Tech professors have had papers accepted for the International Listening Association's annual conference in Albuquerque, N.M., in March.
- Police fear pupil attack could spark school warHastings Today15 hours ago
Police are concerned inter-school rivalry could escalate into something more serious after a gang of pupils beat up a teenager from another school. (04/02/2010 14:50:49)
- Teenagers should be better protected on social networks, EU saysEARTHtimes.org14 hours ago
Brussels - The privacy of underage users should be better protected by social networking websites, the European Commission urged Monday, on the eve of the so-called Safer Internet Day. Last year the commission - the EU's executive - got 20 web compan...
- AOL UK boosts sales teamMedia Week Online15 hours ago
LONDON - AOL has made a number of internal promotions in its senior UK sales team as it looks to build closer relationships with agencies and clients.
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Capazoo
Capazoo is unusual in that it combines online social networking with the ability to earn "zoops," which can be converted into cash at the rate of $0.01 per zoop. You earn zoops by getting "tips" from other users for your videos, music, photos, profiles and more; when you invite friends to join you at Capazoo; and for other member activities.
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Facebook music video overview
Facebook advertises itself as "a social utility that connects you with the people around you." What that means in practical terms is that it is aon online social network that allows you to upload photos, publish notes, get news from friends, post videos in a profile, tag friends and join a network to see people who live, study, or work around you. Facebook is much like MySpace, but in my opinion, it's easier to navigate and better looking.
Facebook in the News
- Google's Gmail to try to challenge FacebookUSA Today84 minutes ago
Search giant Google is upgrading its Gmail program to add social-media tools similar to those found on Facebook.
- Twins learn of teen brother's death on FacebookCNET6 hours ago
Twins logging on to Facebook to read birthday wishes instead discover that people have left RIP posts about their 17-year-old brother. Police hadn't notified the family.
- Saiful dakwa Facebook papar mesej minta dia dibunuhThe Malaysian Insider42 minutes ago
Oleh Shazwan Mustafa Kamal KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 9 — Bekas pembantu peribadi Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim yang merupakan pengadu dan saksi pertama kes liwat ketua pembangkang itu membuat laporan polis dia menerima ancaman bunuh menerusi rangkaian sosial Facebook. Menurut Saiful Bukhari (gambar, kanan) , seorang yang bernama ‘Anaz Zahari’ telah mengugut dia dengan memuatkan satu kenyataan pada ruangan ...
- EA's game arsenal coming to Facebook?CNET11 hours ago
An exec at the gaming company hinted that its 'Madden NFL' franchise will launch a Facebook version, the first application we've seen of EA's Playfish acquisition to its existing game titles.
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Facebook: The Missing Manual
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The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff
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Facebook For Dummies
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Facebook Marketing For Dummies
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Facebook Cookbook: Building Applications to Grow Your Facebook Empire
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The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal
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Facebook Marketing: Leverage Social Media to Grow Your Business
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Sams Teach Yourself Facebook in 10 Minutes
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Facebook Me! A Guide to Having Fun with Your Friends and Promoting Your Projects on Facebook
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Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America
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MySpace For Dummies
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Amp Your MySpace Page
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MySpace
MySpace touts that it's a great online venue to meet your friends' friends. And if your friends' friends are in bands or are celebrities, you'd have an even greater chance of finding them there. But plenty of other people use MySpace too. It's a happening online social network, even though it's not a very elegant environment. As of this writing, MySpace had just added ringtones, news and an Impact section, which focuses on giving back by helping the environment, getting involved in politics or donating either money or time to nonprofit organizations.
MySpace in the News
- MySpace Music experiments with audio adsUSA Today7 hours ago
Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear if they want to listen to music for free online.
- MySpace Music experiments with audio adsMSNBC7 hours ago
Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear before listening to music for free online.
- Alleged MySpace Predator Ordered To Stand TrialCBS 2 Los Angeles1 second ago
A man accused of enticing underage girls into sending him nude photos on MySpace has been ordered to stand trial in Riverside County.
- Orange man accused of being MySpace predatorOrange County Register40 minutes ago
A 32-year-old man from Orange accused of kidnapping an underage girl to rape her and luring the girl and other pre-teen and teenage girls into sending him naked photos through the social networking site MySpace will be tried on nearly two dozen...
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Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time
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Twitter For Dummies
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The Twitter Book
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Twitter Marketing For Dummies
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Twitter is an online social network that allows people to stay connected through the exchange of quick, 140-character bursts of information. Some use Twitter as a cute time-waster on their sites or blogs, but it can actually be used to transmit useful information, too, such as letting everyone know when you're busy. Lately, it has become very popular for marketing, and if used correctly, it works well. And there's an application that allows you to use Twitter within your Facebook acount, as well as many other third-party apps created by Twitter fans.
Twitter in the News
- A tweet at the wheel: NASCAR drivers sign on with TwitterUSA Today8 hours ago
Since joining last month, Jamie McMurray has become a prolific Twitter user and one of several Sprint Cup drivers to embrace ...
- Therese Poletti's Tech Tales: Teens just aren't into TwitterMarket Watch2 hours ago
American teenagers and young adults -- a group known to market researchers as “the Millennials” -- just aren’t that into Twitter, writes Therese Poletti.
- Eva posts porn on Twitteriafrica.com1 second ago
Eva Longoria Parker directed her Twitter followers to a porn website.
- Measuring the Twitter BowlMalaysiaNews.net3 hours ago
Doritos ruled in the world of Twitter during Sunday's Super Bowl game. According to a survey by Minneapolis ad agency Colle+McVoy, more tweets accompanied Frito-Lay ads than any other product, includ...
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Yuwie
Yuwie features most of the same online networking features as the other sites on this page, but there's one big difference: they pay their users to generate traffic. Granted, you have to generate a lot of traffic to get paid, but that's possible if you sign up people underneath you and have some patience. But Yuwie earnings aren't entirely based on the efforts of other people. They pay you for your own page views as well.
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Additional Online Social Networking Sites
The following are more social networking sites that fall within the general category. If I left off one of your favorites, please leave me a comment below and I'll add it.
- 43 Things Tag-based site centered around goals and life dreams
- BlackPlanet The place to connect for African Americans
- Faceparty Networking for British teens (must be over 16) and young adults
- Friendster International social networking for people 18 and over
- hi5 International social networking for young people
- Jaiku This Google-owned site allows people to share their "activity streams" with friends, and is enabled for use on mobile phones
- MEETin General networking backed by live regional events where you can meet your online friends in person
- Meetup General networking that allows you to meet people in your city who share the same interests
- My Opera General networking that allows blogging, photo sharing, etc. online and by mobile phone
- myYearbook An online yearbook that grows with you as you get older
- orkut This general social networking brought to you by the folks at Google is most popular in India and Brazil
- Passado This London-based site claims to have Europe's largest social networking community
- Searchles Offers searching, networking and social bookmarking in one place
- Tagged Provides social networking for teenagers, especially high school students
- Tribe.net Social networking that connects people in local communities
- Yahoo! Mash Yahoo's social networking site is in beta at the time of this writing and requires an invitation
- Team Motivation
Sometimes we seek out others on social networking sites for inspiration and to get us motivated. The link above features short snippets of motivational advice, guaranteed to get you going!
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Comments
Thanks, Bob. :-)
I use social networking and have my own site, this info keeps me on top of what is available.
Wew! I am behind times. I just don't know enough. I need to learn as much as possible. So thanks for explaining all the different sites.
Great HUB
regards Zsuzsy
Zsuzsy Bee: It's okay if you aren't that familiar with the sites. It would be too hard to use them all anyway. My recommendation would be to choose one and get to know it. Once you've done that, you can expand out to others if you want to. Many of the features are similar from site to site, so most of what you learn on one site would carry over to the others.
I hope you get the dup content issue sorted because this is a very useful hub and doesnt deserve that low score! Giving a thumbs up!
Thanks so much for your support and the thumbs-up, Lissie! I'm sure this low-score thing will get straightened out eventually.
Thank you WordPlay. Great info.
Thanks, Peter!
Excellent hub! SY
Thanks, Sybille!
Nice Hub. The list of Web 2.0 sites is endless. It's almost impossible to keep up with them. But as you say, best to focus on a select few which bring you the best results.
Thanks, motherduck. You're right; the list is endless. The ones I included above are only a drop in the bucket.
You've put together a great hub wordplay, gGood all round resource with excellent info, thanks for sharing, cheers!
Wordplay: this is a great resource!! Thanks!!
I have never used 43 things. Is it still good for SEO purposes. I remember seeing there stuff in Google's organic results earlier on, but haven't seen them around in a while.
Thanks for the kind words, highwaystar.
Thanks to you, too, vrecc. Unfortunately, I don't have a good answer for your question about 43 Things. Due to time constraints, I restrict my postings to Propeller, Digg, Reddit and a few others that have high pagerank. So many blog posts, so little time!
You did quite a job on putting all that information together. It is always good to know what the latest sites are since there are so many.
Hi, askweb20. Thanks for your kind words!
Nice stuff. Most of them I hadn't heard of
Sometimes big isn't always better. If you are looking to build actual relationships with people rather than just promote stuff then the smaller network sites work well.
I run a social network for women internet marketers at http://www.womeninternetmarketers.net and what you find is that we are developing relationships with each other and helping each other when we are stuck.
www.Ning.com is a great place to start your own network and attract your particular niche to you. Its also a great place to find smaller targeted networks where you can promote and build relationships
It's a really informative list though... thanks
Diane Corriette Women Internet Marketers
I really liked your summations
I think you have done a good job summing up some of the communities that social sites are creating. For people who are just learning about social networkig - it is really confusing! that is why I liked your hub alot, you simplified the info and gave us your slant as well.
good job - do more!
MySpace, FaceBook, Yuwie and more.
They are just websites.
What if I told you there's software (actually a small browser plug-in) that enables social network functionally on every website on the internet.
It's true see for yourself
Thanks for the informative posting.. We have our own online social networking site called www.groupnex.com. Would like to hear your feedback
MyNetCrew social network is a recently launched Site
Members can create unlimited number of photo albums and upload an unlimited number of photos and communicate with friends for free.
This is a good reference guide for any beginner who is looking into ways to market themselves as a brand because it will take building relationships to do that in the new technology of interactive web 3.0
Thanks for your kind words, Research Analyst. :-)
Good post. This will certainly help people who may want to promote their sites and expand their networks. That you can edit and add to your list is also a good thing. I'm an Internet marketing enthusiast and I'm always interested in ways to 'popularize' one's site and get more from one's network.
Thanks for your comment, Robert!
Hello you can also try this new social networking site that helps people achieve their goals. Check it here -> http://www.humanhood.com
Excellent hub. You mentioned quite a few I've never heard of. Capazoo sounds intriguing. I spend so much time on Facebook that I should be careful though. Thanks for the information.
Thanks, wordscribe41. I've been hearing more and more that a lot of people are spending time on Facebook. So you're not alone!
Great sites.
Wow...so much to learn! I appreciate the info and you explain so well!
Thanks for the kind words and for stopping by, SheMis!
Hey WordPlay this is great Information. When ever you get time check out www.Aroundtheway.com, it's a new social network taking New York by storm.
http://www.funbyu.com is a social networking website where the members earn money.
Now doing ANY activity on www.funbyu.com will earn you money. Login and check out the "My earnings" TAB to know more.
Right from uploading content to inviting friends on funbyu.com to forwarding content to friends could earn you money.
What's more, even when you uploaded content is viewed it can earn you money.
So what Are you waiting for ..... login now and increase your activity and popularize your content.
Happy browsing.
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The latest social site to hit the net
"The Last Legal High.Com" The Social Site For Adrenaline Junkies.
This site is great for anyone that enjoys the natural highs in life, from family to helicopters, The list is endlest. http://www.thelastlegalhigh.com
I came across this social network while at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, www.mizoon.com It has info about your location and businesses near by as well as friends if they are on your network. I even found a coupon for Snip-its in Palo Alto.
This is so helpful with me networking my own site-thanks tons! Kimberly
Thanks for sharing this list of social networking sites. It's intersting to see which ones have taken off since this article was written and which ones have shut down.
Thanks for the list of Social Site. I will try some of these sites too.
as always i come to your Hub and I learn something new! Dont know how you do it but I follow your advice and of course your wonderful clipart!! Thanks as always for sharing all your knowledge!
Thanks, Shari. As always, I appreciate your kind words. :-)
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Bob Ewing says:
2 years ago
Great info here.