Thread: Top Social Networking Sites - General Interest

Top Social Networking Sites - General Interest

• Founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook was designed as a social networking site for Harvard students. After spreading from Harvard through the university ranks and down into high school, Facebook was opened to the public in 2006.
• Myspace.com: Started in 2003, MySpace was a driving force in popularizing social networking and still maintains a large userbase. A highly customizable social network, MySpace continues to reposition itself in the industry.
• www.twiter.com What started out as a microblogging website has quickly grown into a social messaging platform and one of the top social networks in the world. Twitter is phenomenon that transcends social networking to provide an outlet for news, trends, buzz, and chat among many other uses.
• Ning.com: A social network for creating social networks, Ning takes the idea of groups to a whole new level. The ability to create your own community makes Ning a great home away from home for organizations and groups looking to fill the social void.
  

Top Social Networking Sites - Special Interest

• Flixter.com: With a tagline of "stop watching bad movies," Flixster combines social networking with movie reviews.
• Last.fm Billing itself as a social music site, Last.fm allows members to create their own radio station that learns what the person likes and suggests new music based on those interests. In addition to this, you can listen to the radio stations of friends and other Last.fm members.
• LinkedIn.com: A business-oriented social network, members invite people to be "connections" instead of "friends." Linkedin is a contact management system as well as a social network, and has a question-and-answer section similar to Yahoo! Answers.
• http://Xanga.com A social blogging site that combines social networking elements with blogging. Members earn credits for participating in the site and can spend credits on various things such as buying mini-pictures to post in the comments of a friend's blog.

Nice sharing.

For me, twitter, facebook and linkedin would be the best ones. I would also like to recommend a nice service for updating all these social networking sites for your status in batch from ping.fm

All the best,

I like Facebook and Twitter are best sites for social networking purpose.

here are some of my favorite social netwroking sites

facebook
twitter
myspace
bebo
digg
linkedin
stubleupon
orkut
classmate.

i have account on all the sites but use them very seldomly most of the tiem i prefer facebook or twitter only.

twitter and facebook is really cool site for getting popularity and targeted visitors

Nice list most of sites i use and they are very help full for communicate with your target marketing...