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Social networking websites are
websites that allow you to connect and interact with a network of other
people through personal websites, weblogs, online chat, photo sharing,
discussion groups, and more.
Social
Networking Website Services
A social network service
focuses on building online communities of people who share interests
and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and
activities of others. Most social network services are web based and
provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail, instant
messaging services, blogs, photo sharing, and more.
Social networking has encouraged new ways to communicate and share
information. Social networking websites are being used regularly by
millions of people worldwide.
While it could be said that email and websites have most of the
essential elements of social network services, the idea of proprietary
encapsulated services has gained popularity.
The main types of social networking website services are those which contain
category divisions (such as former school-year or classmates), means to
connect with friends (usually with self-description pages) and a
recommendation system. Popular websites now combine many
of these, with
Facebook widely used worldwide;
MySpace,
Twitter and
LinkedIn being the most widely used in North America;
Nexopia (mostly in Canada);
Bebo,
Hi5, dol2day (mostly in Germany),
Tagged,
XING;
Badoo and
Skyrock in parts of Europe; Orkut, Friendster, Multiply, Wretch, Xiaonei
and Cyworld in Asia and the Pacific Islands. See below for a full
list of social networking websites services.
There have been some attempts to standardize these services to avoid the
need to duplicate entries of friends and interests, but this has led to
some concerns about privacy.
List of Social Networking Websites
Following is a list of
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Badoo |
Badoo is a worldwide
online community that provides its members with the ability to
communicate and share their lives with people both locally and around
the globe. Its many features include the next generation in photo/video
sharing and social networking. More importantly, though, Badoo allows
its users to gain an instant mass audience for themselves and their
work. One of Badoo's greatest strengths lies in giving the user
direct control over the size of their audience. With our patented
system, members can activate features that instantly gain more exposure
for their profile. We've added to that the ability for instant
messaging, lightning quick uploads of photos/videos, and the
transparency of being able to see who views your profile and individual
albums. |
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Bebo |
Bebo is a popular social
networking site which connects you to everyone and everything you care
about. It is your life online - a social experience that helps you
discover what's going on with your world and helps the world discover
what’s going on with you. Bebo combines community, self-expression and
entertainment, enabling you to consume, create, discover, curate and
share digital content in entirely new ways. Bebo has sites all
across the globe - US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada,
Poland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, India and the Netherlands. |
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BuddyFetch |
Buddyfetch is a social search
engine that allows you to connect with other people on the Internet
based on their occupation, hobbies, interests and more. Instead of
having you search thousands of social networks, IM networks, and dating
sites, we do the work for you- including a Google gadget and Firefox
add-on.
Buddyfetch has also included 'buddy alerts' where you can create a wish
list of the people you would like to meet. Buddyfetch then
searches and sends you an email or cell phone text message daily when we
find them. |
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CrushSpot |
CrushSpot.com is an online
social networking community website for meeting new people online, for
platonic and/or romantic relationships. CrushSpot allows you to create a
user profile where you can upload pictures and post a little or a lot
about yourself. You can send members public messages on their message
board or private messages in notes. CrushSpot users also receive a blog,
or web log, short for online journal, where they can post their thoughts
and opinions on things going on in their life or anything in general.
There's also a forum for public discussion on a variety of topics. Photo
albums, Chat Rooms, and a site Instant Messenger are also in the works.
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Facebook |
Facebook is a free social
networking utility that connects you with the people around you. Facebook allows you to upload photos or publish notes, get the latest
news from your friends, post videos on your profile, tag your friends,
use privacy settings to control who sees your info, join a network to
see people who live, study, or work around you. Facebook is
quickly becoming the most popular social networking website. |
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Hi5 |
Headquartered in San
Francisco, CA, hi5 is one of the world's largest social networks. Alexa®
ranks hi5 as a top 20 website globally, and as the #1 social network in
over 30 countries across Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
hi5 is the most globally diverse social networking site in the world,
with over 80% of our users from outside the US. The hi5.com site was
designed for this global audience from the beginning, and was the first
in-language social networking site in many countries around the world.
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LinkedIn |
LinkedIn is a social networking
website that allows you to find past and present colleagues and
classmates quickly. LinkedIn makes staying in touch simple. It allows
you to make inside connections when you’re looking for a job or new
business opportunity. |
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MySpace |
MySpace is an online social
networking community that lets you meet your friends' friends.
Create a community on MySpace and you can share photos, journals and
interests with your growing network of mutual friends! See who
knows who, or how you are connected. MySpace is for everyone:
Friends who want to talk Online, Single people who want to meet other
Singles, Matchmakers who want to connect their friends with other
friends, Families who want to keep in touch--map your Family Tree,
Business people and co-workers interested in networking, Classmates and
study partners.
Anyone looking for long lost friends! |
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Nexopia |
Designed initially as a way to
fight back against his high school for banning floppy discs Ewalds
quickly took advantage of his program's potential to connect his friends
online. Today, with over 1.2 million registered members and over a
billion pages served per month, Nexopia continues to revolutionize the
way young people connect online. Even while growing like wildfire
Nexopia has managed to retain its rebellious roots and ultimately become
the place to be for teens looking to express themselves to the world.
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Skyrock |
With the SkyRock social
network website, you can stock unlimited photos, videos, and texts in
your blog, make new friends and chat with peeps from around the world,
check out tons of photos, videos, and profiles. |
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Tagged |
Make a great profile that's
all about you. Find your friends and meet new people. Chat,
flirt, photos, games, and more! |
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Twitter |
Twitter is a privately funded
social networking website startup with offices in the SoMA neighborhood
of San Francisco, CA. Started as a side project in March of 2006,
Twitter has grown into a real-time short messaging service that works
over multiple networks and devices.
In countries all around the world, people use Twitter follow the sources most
relevant to them and access information via Twitter as it happens—from
breaking world news to updates from friends |
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Xanga |
Xanga is an online social
networking website / community
for you and your friends. With Xanga, you can easily start your own free weblog,
share photos and videos, and meet new friends, too! |
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XING |
XING – The business
network. Around the world every day, over 7 million business
professionals use XING – the global business network – in 16 languages
to do business and promote their career. XING makes networking and
professional contact management simple, with made-to-measure networking
functions and services. Even more, XING allows you to see how people are
connected, which is an excellent tool in generating new contacts of your
own.
With the XING Jobs portal, more than 26,000 expert groups and networking
events from London to Beijing to New York, XING has evolved from a
platform to a web interface for business professionals around the world.
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Yahoo 360 |
Yahoo 360 is an online social networking
website /
community that allows users to create blogs, share photos, interests,
and what matters to you. Allows you to control how your page
looks, and who sees what. Keep up with the latest from all your
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