Social network- an interactive multi-user website, the content of which is filled by the network members themselves. The site is an automated social environment that allows you to communicate with a group of users united by a common interest. These include thematic forums, especially industry ones, which have been actively developing in recent years.

Communication is done through the web service of internal mail or instant messaging.

Structure

And if LinkedIn was created to establish/maintain business contacts, then the owners of MySpace and Facebook relied primarily on satisfying the human need for self-expression. Indeed, in accordance with Maslow's pyramid, it is self-expression that is the highest human need, ahead of even recognition and communication. Social networks have become a kind of Internet haven, where everyone can find a technical and social basis for creating their virtual "I". At the same time, each user got the opportunity not only to communicate and create, but also to share the fruits of their creativity with a multi-million audience of a particular social network.

Largest networks

In different regions of the world, the popularity of different social networks varies. So, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn networks are more popular and widespread in North America;
Nexopia - in Canada;
Bebo - in the UK;
Facebook, Hi5, dol2day - in Germany;
Tagged.com ( English), XING and Skyrock - in different European countries;
Public Broadcasting Service, Orkut, Facebook and Hi5 in South and Central America (55% of Brazilian network users prefer Orkut);
Friendster, Multiply, Orkut, Xiaonei and Cyworld - in Asia (Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore).

Facebook (750,000,000 ), MySpace (255,000,000 ), Twitter (200,000,000 ), Vkontakte (150,000,000 ), Windows Live Spaces (120,000,000 ), Habbo Hotel (121,000,000 ), Friendster (90,000,000 ), Hi5 (80,000,000 ), Tagged.com (70,000,000 ).

English-speaking Russian-speaking

• My network

• Connect (there is a Russian-language interface)
• exSlife (there is a Russian-language interface)

• Vseti (there is a Russian-language interface)

• Hayland (there is a Russian and English interface)
• Kuku (there is a Russian-language interface)

• Draugiem.lv
• ONE.LV

Subspecies

Service social networks allow users to unite online around their common interests, hobbies or for various reasons. For example, some sites provide services that allow users to share personal information needed to find partners. Examples: LinkedIn , VKontakte .

Commercial social networks are focused on supporting business transactions and building people's trust in brands based on their opinions about the product, how to make it better, etc., thereby allowing consumers to participate in product promotion and increase their awareness.

Advertising

For advertisers, social networks provide unique opportunities for direct contact with consumers. Every day, millions of users are talking about companies, their products and services, sharing their opinions and impressions. As a result, a single member of the network community can ruin (or vice versa) the reputation of a company with a multi-million dollar turnover.

The social media advertising market is growing steadily. In 2007, according to eMarketer, it reached $1.225 billion. When compiling the report, eMarketer experts took into account all types of advertising placed on social networks, including display, contextual and video advertising, as well as the costs of marketing projects in which marketers create profiles for their products and brands on social networks. In addition, for the first time, spending on widgets and apps is included in the projections. According to a recent study by eMarketer, total social media advertising revenue in 2011 will reach $5.54 billion According to eMarketer's forecasts, the size of the social media advertising market will double by 2013.

Currently, companies in sectors such as consumer goods, liquor manufacturers, automakers, and entertainment companies are showing the greatest interest in social networks. Consumer brands have not been aggressively advertising on the Internet until recently, but for 2009 many of them have budgeted for social media marketing.

The growth of advertising in social networks leads to pulling budgets. Popular advertising platforms such as search networks, major newspaper and magazine websites, and online media are now forced to cut advertising budgets or adapt to the realities of Web 2.0 by optimizing their sites for social media functionality.

dangers

Many people do not understand that the information they post on social networks can be found and used by anyone, including not necessarily with good intentions. Information about social media members can be found by their employers, parents, children, former or current wives or husbands, debt collectors, criminals, law enforcement, and so on.

For example, there is a case when a criminal was looking for outwardly similar women, killed them and sold their apartments.

There is a known case of manifestation of psychosomatic disorders on the basis of dependence on communication in social networks. In Belgrade, user Svetlana Pavlović ended up in a psychiatric clinic after her Facebook post failed to generate interest among her friends. The doctors of the clinic called this case "Svetlana's syndrome", explaining the patient's behavior as ordinary stress from the dissatisfaction of the individual's social needs in the modern world.

Some employers prohibit the use of social networks - not only to save money, but also to prevent information from leaking.

D. Boyd, based on survey materials in 16 US states, concluded that there are two main “fears” caused by social networks: sexual harassment and confidentiality of information. Content analysis of periodicals in Denmark allowed M. Larsen to compile a list of the most frequently mentioned problems in connection with social networks, which include: sexual violence and pedophilia, intimidation and harassment, threats and violence, the spread of nationalist ideas. K. Fuchs in the course of an online survey of German and Austrian students received the following list of risks: data confidentiality, spam, the possibility of losing personal information, creating a negative image, Internet addiction. S.V. Bondarenko, based on the study of virtual network communities in the south of Russia, concluded that there are the following forms of manifestation of deviant behavior: hacking, violation of secrecy, defamation, cyberterrorism, computer pedophilia. A survey conducted on the SU-HSE portal showed that, according to the respondents, networks are “dragging” and taking too much time, crowd out real communication, and provide “excessive communication and information”. “Privacy issues,” the report mentions, “are of less concern to social media users. Basically, these fears are associated with the easy availability of contact information for spammers, and not with the work of the secret services.

Applications

Social software is a wide range of software systems that allow users to interact and share data. This method of computer-mediated interaction has become popular with the advent of social sites such as MySpace, Facebook, Odnoklassniki.ru, Flickr and YouTube media sites, eBay commercial sites.

Many of these applications share common characteristics such as open APIs, service-oriented design, and the ability to host data and media remotely. Such applications are commonly referred to as Web 2.0 systems.

Within social software, two groups of software tools can be distinguished: communication and interactive.

Communication tools are used to record, store and present communication data, most often in text form, but increasingly in audio and video formats.

Interactive tools are used to support data-mediated (different media formats) interaction between individual users and their groups. Unlike communication tools, the emphasis is on supporting the connectivity of users and communication mechanisms between them. In contrast to communication tools, which are usually asynchronous, interactive tools are predominantly synchronous, allowing users to interact in real time (as in the case of Internet telephony, video chats, etc.) or almost synchronously (instant messaging services, text chats, etc.). . P.).

We can name the following examples of software systems that are related to social software:

• Instant messaging systems (IM - Instant messaging) allow you to communicate with another user over the network in real time (in a relatively secure mode). The most popular of them include Skype, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, Miranda IM. Business-oriented systems include IBM Lotus Sametime, Microsoft Messenger, and Jabber.
• Internet Relay Chat (IRC - Internet Relay Chat) allows several users to communicate simultaneously in real time.
• Internet forums have replaced electronic conferences (predating the WWW). A forum user can create a new "topic" that is available to others. Other users can view the topic and leave their comments in sequential recording mode.
• Web blogs, or blogs for short, can be thought of as personal online journals of individual users. The blog owner can post posts to his journal, while other users (readers) can leave comments on them.
• Wikis, or simply wikis, are essentially websites whose content can be edited by site visitors. The most famous example is Wikipedia.

IDC experts predict that the market for social media marketing and business applications will grow in the coming years. "Social media is getting more and more popular and there are applications for a variety of purposes that will drive the growth of this market," said Rachel Happe, research manager at IDC. “We expect that applications for various marketing companies and firms, as well as corporate applications, will soon become popular.”

In addition, the report states that the growth of the social networking application market will slow down only by 2011.

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Social network - a site with which you can communicate with other users of the resource. On such Internet sites, you can publish and view information from other registered participants: music, photos and videos, documents, articles, write comments.

The growing popularity of such portals encourages them to be used not only for personal purposes. Promotion and support of companies, sales of goods, services are the goals of strategies in social marketing (SMM). The key to success is choosing the right network among the many available. Otherwise, the time spent on finding the target audience will be useless. What social networks exist on the Internet, how do they differ from each other and how have they earned popularity among their users? Let's consider in more detail.

History of social networks

The first prototype of a service for communication was described back in 1837 in a science fiction novel by Vladimir Odoevsky. The theory and principles of creation are set forth in the works of mathematicians of the 1950-1960s. In 1954, the term itself appears. The real embodiment of social networks received with the widespread development of the Internet.

The first similarity was the Classmates.com resource in 1995, where you could find pupils and students from different educational institutions. A more familiar look and function now appeared in the SixDegrees.com project in 1997. Registration, creating a personal profile, finding friends, chatting with them were innovative opportunities for that time.

Now familiar social networks began to appear en masse since 2003. LinkedIn and Facebook are starting to work. Since 2006, Odnoklassniki and VKontakte have been created in Russia. Since then, the number of resources has been constantly increasing, they have new features that are not only convenient for users for entertainment and communication, but also for doing business.

What are social networks on the Internet

By functionality and opportunities for users, you can segment what social networks are. To classify by type of content, the following types of social networks can be distinguished:

Functionality

There are a lot of options for what to do on the resources for communication, but you can highlight the main ones. Services allow:

• Communicate - with colleagues, friends, like-minded people and a lot of people who are interesting for one reason or another. You can join interest groups, get acquainted for certain purposes, share personal information with all or selected visitors of the resource.
• Search - people (by certain parameters, for example, educational institutions, places of work, city of residence), companies and goods that are offered for sale through communication sites.
• Share news - the media, news agencies have their own pages. Event information can be added by all participants.
• Rest - this is facilitated by the mass of various content, paid or free of charge posted on the portal: movies, games, music.
• Learn - educational programs, lessons, materials and advice from other people provide useful information in various areas of life. Learn how to cook, learn the grammatical subtleties of another language, attend workshops on making useful objects with your own hands, hone your skills in using technology or computer programs - all this is found in abundance.
• Store files, share them.
• Find a job or an employee - professional networks are created for the exchange of experience, the development of business ties, and the search for vacancies from employers.
• Organize document sharing - work on one task has never been so easy! Borders, time difference, other factors are leveled by general access, the ability to comment and edit materials.

Reasons for popularity

The huge interest in sites for communication, which has been observed in recent years, is quite understandable. Among the main reasons:

Regardless of what social networks are, users are increasingly aware of the hidden threats from their use. And it's not just about dependence on a computer or other gadget, although the time spent is valuable. Much worse, and sometimes even more dangerous, is the fact that personal life circumstances become known to a wide range of people. The intentions of the latter are not always honest. Here are just a few examples:

• Apartment thieves can find out the time of a long absence of the owners of an apartment or house from a bright vacation photo.
• For the abduction of a child, information about the parents will play into the hands, which will convince the kid to believe that the person really knows mom or dad.
• It is easier to choose a potential victim by making sure that a person is financially viable according to information from open sources.
• Groups are being created for teenagers who are pushing for suicide.

It is becoming a common practice when, before hiring, HR employees look through the pages of a potential candidate, wanting to learn more about him, his habits and social circle. Candid photos, aggressive posts, support for extremism and other moments can play a negative role both in employment and in a career.

Leaks of personal data, manipulation of the audience, hacking of accounts with subsequent use are becoming more common. And even the giants in this field are not immune from such troubles. All this makes you think about what to publish on resources and to whom to give access to viewing, teaches you to comply with the minimum requirements for caution on the network.

Trends and prospects

A 2017 report from We Are Social and Hootsuite shows strong growth in social media usage. With a total population of about 7.5 billion people, more than 3 billion are registered in various applications. 1 million new registrations occur daily. Moreover, the number of visits to sites from mobile devices is growing - almost 90% of visitors use smartphones and tablets, rather than desktop computers.

At the same time, if a couple of years ago it was possible to quickly find out news and events from the lives of real people on communication platforms, now the situation is changing radically. More and more ads, posts about "seals", motivators and other general information appear. And this is no longer such a close, close and familiar circle of friends. The level of trust falls, which means it becomes more difficult to sell something.

There are new and new startups that, although they will not move Facebook from a leadership position in the near future, will attract part of the audience. Planning a marketing campaign is required more carefully and with a preliminary analysis of the selected resource, product and target audience.

Forecasts boil down to the fact that active growth will slow down and the social media boom will subside. You should not abandon the usual web portal in favor of only a page on Facebook, VK or another network. The usual Internet and sites will remain on a par with social networks.

What are the most popular social networks

There are dozens of services. Some of them are loved in several countries or even around the world, others unite the citizens of one country and are not widely used outside of it. An overview of what social networks are and a list of popular world services is offered below.

Facebook

The unconditional first place is provided by over 2.2 billion accounts in the world. Facebook has been operating since 2004, created by Mark Zuckerberg. A simple and free communication service that allows you to:

• Register your own page where photos and other materials are posted.
• Find other users, add them as friends, find out their news.
• Share information from the network or from other participants, upload videos and photographs.
• Create groups (open or closed).
• Learn the news.
• Comment and rate posts.

Facebook Inc. (service owner) is constantly expanding the possibilities. Hyper-local ads (within a certain radius from the advertiser), Snapchat (disappearing stories), GIF animation for commenting, saving interesting materials, messenger and other features confidently keep users interested.

YouTube

You Tube video hosting from Google is the most popular video network in the world. It is also considered a social network, as it allows users to register, communicate, share their videos. Here you can find information for every taste from entertainment to training courses. Founded in February 2005 in the USA. At the beginning of 2018, it has over 1.5 billion active users, and the result of several million views of popular videos is quite achievable.

Key features:

• Submit your videos for viewing.
• Various formats are supported: panoramas, HD, Full HD, MPEG-4 AVC and others.
• Edit video from the browser using editor programs (add titles, audio tracks, images, transitions).
• Comment, rate other people's videos or comments.
• Create group chats.
• Run a video channel.

The company is trying to control the content of the resource by periodically removing videos that violate copyright and are recognized as extremist. In some countries, the resource is blocked for publishing materials objectionable to the authorities.

whatsapp

Mobile messenger for over 1.2 billion people. Created by WhatsApp in 2009, since 2014 - owned by Facebook Inc. It is considered a social network in terms of its functions:

• Correspondence between participants.
• Creation of groups, communication in group chat mode.
• Sharing video, music and other content.
• Ability to assign statuses to an account.

These features allow WhatsApp to be classified as a social network, with one feature - it works based on the phone book. For communication, you need the phone number of the interlocutor. Limits it, or vice versa, allows you to maintain privacy - there are different opinions. One of the advantages is that a large number of versions have been developed that support different operating systems, including Symbian (which is rare).

Instagram

An application for different operating systems for posting pictures and short videos (up to 60 seconds), viewing other participants' materials, with the ability to rate and comment. Since its launch in 2010, Instagram has enjoyed over 1.1 billion registered members. Acquired by Facebook Inc in 2012. Popular features:

• Blogging.
• Photo processing - effects, frames, special shooting modes, collages.
• Create your own profile and feed of publications.
• View friends, rate and comment on their publications.
• Cross-posting is the simultaneous posting of material in several social networks.
• Search for the necessary information by hashtags (special marks).

Instagram is especially popular among young people under the age of 25 and is actively developing. This network is one of the most promising for business, product promotion, brand and service promotion.

WeChat

The leader among Chinese services is WeChat, a micromessaging application. Given the ban in the country of world favorites Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, Chinese users communicate with their developments. WeChat is not just an application, it has many more options. Main:

• Personal communication, video calls, voice messages.
• Group chats up to 500 people.
• Blogs, reviews, testimonials, “Moments”.
• Paying bills and shopping.
• Acquaintances (including with geographical search).
• Photo editing, text translations.
• One account on different devices at the same time.

And although there are a number of restrictions (for example, one publication per day), the application is relatively new (it has been working since 2011), the number of accounts is approaching a billion. WeChat is being promoted outside of China (Russia, India and other countries).

Qzone

Chinese social network with features: blogging, watching videos, listening to music, chatting, making purchases. Basic options are free, additional options are available with a premium subscription. Since its foundation (2005), it has attracted 600 million participants. Available in English and Chinese.

Sina Weibo

Chinese version of microblogging, basically similar to Facebook and Twitter. Since its inception (2009) has attracted the attention of more than 500 million users. Development is constrained by the support of English and Chinese, the state censorship of the country. It has a convenient tree-like structure of comments, an online shopping service, a premium profile with advanced functionality. On the network, you can chat, get acquainted, download and view photos, search for interesting information and follow the news.

Google Plus

Own development by Google. The principle of operation is based on the concept of circles. The user creates them himself, regulating to whom and what information will be available. Key features: sharing photos, videos, links, games, group chats, support for mobile devices, video conferencing. Launched in 2011, more than 135 million users. The profile is linked to email from Google and affects search results. The service is considered one of the most promising, it is expected that in the coming years the number of accounts will grow steadily.

LinkedIn

Network for professionals. More than 500 million users from 200 countries communicate on its pages. The main focus is not on entertainment, humor, news and other content familiar to other services, but resumes, portfolios, a list of skills (with confirmation from real people), vacancies. Asking colleagues for advice, discussing professional issues, looking for a job or employees, getting recommendations are the tasks of LinkedIn. The project was launched in 2003 and bought out by Microsoft in 2016.

Twitter

Started working in the USA in 2006. Features: Blogging with short posts (max 280 characters). An interesting option is “Moments” (plots with development). You can learn about resonant, popular news without subscribing to other users. Their microblogs on Twitter are people known in various fields from show business to sports. The total number of accounts exceeds 330 million.

What social networks are there in Russia

In Russia, the popularity of services for online communication does not lag behind world indicators. Only there are favorites - Russian Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki. Knowing your leaders in this industry is a must for anyone who promotes their products, brand through SMM.

The rating of all social networks in Russia is estimated as part of the traffic that this service creates in Runet. The assessment is based on the results of 2018 research by the largest Russian online statistical data collection services: Yandex.Metrika, SpyLog/Openstat, LiveInternet, Hotlog, [email protected].

These services are leading in terms of activity of Russians. Let us briefly dwell on two main national developments.

In contact with

Russian network, created in 2006. Belongs to Mail.Ru Group. Supports over 90 languages, over 460 million registered users. The most popular among Russian-speaking users is the leader of all social networks in Russia in terms of use. Possibilities:

• Creating your page.
• Correspondence with other project participants.
• Sending pictures, audio and video recordings.
• Joint online games.

It is this resource that is most often chosen for online stores and sales. This is facilitated by a wide range of opportunities and a large Russian-speaking audience.

Classmates

Another successful development of Mail.Ru Group. It ranks third in popularity in Russia with more than 330 million members. The project is available in 14 languages ​​and has been operating since 2006. Key features:

• Own page for publishing information.
• Chat with messages or video calls.
• Search for people by different parameters.
• Payment for goods, money transfers.
• Additional paid options (invisibility, blacklist ...).

The Odnoklassniki project works both in full and in the mobile version, which is convenient, saves network traffic and page loading time.

List of social networks

An unequivocal answer to the question “which social networks are better?” No. Each of them has a number of advantages and is popular in a certain environment. Country, age, circle of interests pay attention to preferences. We have decided on the main services, but the choice is much wider. Below is a list that includes the most hyped projects.
Social networks of the world:

• For communication: Facebook, VKontakte, MirTesen, Pinterest, Moy [email protected], Odnoklassniki, xbeee.com, Pikabu, ASKfm, Cloob, Instagram, Google+, Myspace, RetroShare, Vine.
• Thematic: Promise Bank, Diary, On the Wall, Habbo, Jeep-er Club, AutoPCL Autoclub, NumPlate, Last.fm, Olvet Community Network, MyAnimeList, Untappd, CHIF.SU, Wakoopa, Vsoyuz, ktoprochto.ru, Nekto.me , Drawi.ru, Generations, Oldies.ru, Mom's Page, MommyBuzz, BabyBlog, Badoo, Mamba, LovePlanet, Vichatter.net, Violetta, MegaMixGroup, Sociale by Vampir4ik, Ilovecinema.ru, Goodreads, Oplace, Zeenga.ru, We place , DRUZHNO.COM, Peers, Lemberg, Limpa, Badoo, LibertySpace, Locals.ru, Facerunet.ru, Krabitsa, Love Me Tender, Vpiski.Net, Neforu.ru, Budist.ru, Politix.ru, Politiko, In the Army, Classmates, Smeshariki, My School.com, XODIS, TOPclassmates, Webkrug.ru, Car2gether, Tourout.ru, Marshruty.ru, Geoid, Naarende, IT-Specialists, Habrakhabr, Abyrvalg.NET, BookHook, Rybakiohotniki.ru, Foursquare, Schoolboys .
• Professional: Doctor at Work, My Circle, Professionals, E-xecutive, Mendeley, iVrach, LinkedIn, Viadeo, Academia.edu, Voiceland, Webby.ru, My Business Card, ResearchGate,.
• For blogs: Instagram, Fixfeel, Twitter, TipTopic.net, RuTwit, Toodoo, Blogosphere, LiveJournal, LiveJournal, Diary.ru.
• Asian: Tencent Qzone, Sina Weibo, QQ, Renren, Pengyou, WeChat, Douban.

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• Instagram

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• Tumblr

  Tumblr is a social networking microblogging service that allows users to post text messages, images, videos, links, quotes, and audio recordings to their tumblr, a short-form blog. Post whatever you want. Share photos, videos, quotes, chats, links and text entries.

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Continuing the topic of social networks that I raised the other day (by the way, if you haven’t read the post about Russian social networks), I offer you a translation of the article “33 places to hang out in the era of social networks”, published on the rev2.org blog. The article is an impressive list of foreign social networks and gives a good idea of ​​this booming market. Over the past two years, the popularity of social networks has increased markedly. Everyone can find a network to their liking, there are networks for dogs, parents, book lovers and shopaholics. In social networks, in my opinion, it is very useful and interesting to spend time. It is because of the growing interest in social networks that I created this list. I think that it will come in handy for those who, despite existing profiles in MySpace or Bebo, are ready to look for something new and interesting.

Please note - I did not include in the list services focused on social bookmarking, as well as systems "with a hint" of social networks (YouTube or Flickr). I also divided the list into two categories - general and special. The list covers only those services that are available to a wide range of users (no private beta by invitation).

MySpace is the largest social network in the world. She conquered the United States with great speed, now MySpace has about 80 million users. In 2005, it was bought by Newscorp for $580 million. MySpace continues to develop rapidly and at the moment it is she who determines the development of social networks.

Bebo - Unlike the Americanized MySpace, Bebo is designed for other English-speaking countries such as England, Australia and New Zealand. Functionally, Bebo is very similar to MySpace. Initially, Bebo was created in order to communicate between friends, but later the network has grown and currently has about 40 million users.
Recommended for: teenagers, young adults

Tagworld was founded in autumn 2005. Direct competitor to MySpace. It stands out for its excellent implementation of Web 2.0 (tagging, AJAX). Tagworld also has a search engine for music and an IM client with video chat capabilities.
Recommended for: teenagers, young adults

Orkut is a product created by a Google programmer in his spare time (You know, every Google programmer has the right to spend 20% of his working time on his own projects). Orkut began its development in the USA, but subsequently became widespread in Brazil (about 65% of users).
Recommended: Brazilian youth.

AIM pages - The youngest social network among the most popular. This is AOL's attempt to push MySpace into the social networking market. It was believed that AIM Pages would be a real breakthrough, but she still has a long way to go.
Recommended for: teenagers, young adults

Hi5 - has about 40 million users. You have to pay to participate in this social network. One of the distinguishing features of the system is that you can download music from iTunes for money and add it to your profile. On a free account, you can upload photos up to a whole gigabyte. Kelly Clarkson, Jessica Simpson, Tira Banks have profiles on Hi5.
Recommended for: teenagers, young adults

Panjea is a social network with an economy founded this year. Offers several ways to get paid for your creative work. There is a unique points system.
Recommended for: teenagers, young adults

Cyworld originated in Korea and has grown to phenomenal proportions. The daily income of this network is about 300,000 dollars. Now Cyworld is gradually spreading to the US. The network has its own currency (acorns), and each user has his own "minihompy" (profile). Users can decorate their "minihompy" and keep in touch with each other.
Recommended: Teenagers, young adults, Koreans

Tagged is intended mainly for teenagers. The main idea is to be tagged, create tagging teams and earn points in order to become the coolest tagging team. Tagged is slowly gaining popularity among teenagers in the US, but compared to MySpace, it is always secondary.
Recommended for teens

Popist is very similar to MySpace, both in interface and focus. Offers users a large number of open features, such as the ability to integrate with other social networks.
Recommended for teens

Friendster, one of the first networks launched as a “social experiment”, has recently acquired a patent for “social networks”. The network has grown very quickly, but by today it has completely fallen and currently occupies less than 1% of the social network market.
Recommended for teens

Tribe - not so long ago this network was acquired by NBC. The main task of Tribe is not so much in dating and communication, but in uniting users' own social networks. Provides the ability to create so-called “clans”, and is also very well localized due to these same clans.
Recommended for teens

Facebook is a start-up from Silicon Valley. Widespread among colleges and universities in most English-speaking countries. It is the second most popular network after MySpace in the US. This network is not yet available in many countries, but is steadily developing and growing.

ConnectU is very similar to Facebook. It is also designed for students of colleges and universities. ConnectU, unlike Facebook, covers a much smaller number of colleges and universities around the world.
Recommended for: college and university students

Yahoo! 360 - Launched in early 2005, a Yahoo product that provides the ability to combine blogs and photo albums. Only for those over 18 years old - this significantly reduces the list of potential users.
Recommended: adults

PeopleAggregator is Marc Canter's attempt to carve out a niche in the social media space. Based on open standards and functionalities. One of the distinguishing features is that this is just a demo version of the software, which can be purchased later.
Recommended: adults

MommyBuzz - Launched just a couple of months ago, MommyBuzz is designed to enable moms to connect online and share and exchange thoughts and ideas with other moms. A wonderful place for such a target group.
Recommended: moms

MuslimSpace - Created by a former computer science student at the American University of Sharjah, MuslimSpace lives up to its name - MySpace for Muslims. Today, the site has about 15,000 users, and its goal is to be a cleaner and more secure site than MySpace and, of course, only for Muslims.
Recommended: Muslims

Stardoll - Would you like to dress celebrities like paper dolls? Originally called Paperdoll Heaven, Stardoll does exactly that. With a strong social network at its core and almost a million users, Stardoll is gaining mega popularity in the world of kids and teens much like Neopets did a few years ago.
Recommended for: children/teenagers

Imbee – There are a lot of sites for teens, but what about kids? Imbee's goal is to provide a safe and secure social network for kids. So now if your big brother is bragging about his MySpace profile and teasing you can't get one, go to Imbee!
Recommended: children

Dogster is a place where dogs (and their owners) can meet and socialize. On Dogster, each dog has its own web page. The subtitle reads: post pictures of dogs, tell dog stories, make new friends(dogs)!
Recommended for: dogs and their owners

Catster is practically the twin brother of Dogster, developed by the same people, Catster is Dogster for cats. Post photos of cats, tell cat stories, make new friends (cats)! Does anything else need to be explained?
Recommended for: cats and their owners

Fuzzster - Being somewhat of a combination of Dogster and Catster, Fuzzster is the place to be for your cats, dogs and other furry pets. Launched in early 2004, it has grown into a fairly large community of animal lovers.
Recommended for: furry animals and their owners

BookCrossing - In the real world, bookcrossing (book exchange) is carried out like this: someone leaves a book in a public place for others to take and read and then do the same. The goal of the BookCrossing website is to run the same process in the virtual world.
Recommended for: book lovers

Boompa is a site for car enthusiasts, and there are certainly a lot of them on the Internet. The purpose of the network is to become your online garage. Car enthusiasts can show off their “cars” here, find recommendations for their improvement, meet other car enthusiasts, view videos and photos, and much more.
Recommended for: car enthusiasts

Spout is a database of over 250,000 movie titles, Spout is a social network for cinephiles. Here you can find reviews and recommendations, meet other moviegoers. Spout is a good place to visit before you are going to rent a movie.
Recommended for movie buffs

MOG is a Silicon Valley startup whose goal is to connect music lovers with the same interests. A very interesting way to meet new people, also here you can discover new musical directions that you did not know about before.
Recommended: for music lovers

Gusto. There are websites about cars, movies, music, books, animals, but what about travel? Gusto is just a place that brings travelers together based on their lifestyle (expressed in preferences). Here you can also find tons of information, recommendations and travel reviews.

Yub.com combines a social network and shopping. The goal of Yub.com is to provide a sustainable online shopping experience. The "cash back" system is used, when, if one user helps another or vice versa, both users have the opportunity to receive CashBack. Interesting way to shop.
Recommended for: lovers of (online) shopping

Yelp (from the creators of PayPal) is a site similar to Yub in many ways, designed to help shoppers make decisions by showing them reviews from other users. However, unlike Yub, Yelp is more focused on commercial activities and services than on a consumer-oriented product. Currently only available in the US.
Recommended: Any U.S. Resident (Especially in Big Cities)

- according to surveys, the most popular business network, LinkedIn's goal is to unite colleagues and business partners, to help find new ones. With close to 5 million users, LinkedIn remains popular with business audiences.
Recommended: Mercenaries and businessmen

biddingBuddies - often on auction sites like eBay you have to deal with many people. BiddingBuddies will help you with this. It is the only social network exclusively for eBay users. Now, if you are participating in the auction, why not make friends with the opponents.
Recommended: eBay users (buyers and sellers)

Faqqly - There are so many things you would like to know about your friends, so why not ask them through Faqqly? Faqqly creates an FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page for each user and allows friends to ask each other anything they want.
Recommended for: curious – teenagers, youth