Popular Social Networking Sites

Social Networking sites helps people connect with friends and other people with similar interest. By offering cool features like music / photo sharing, Instant Messaging , blogs, forums, events connecting with friend and communities these websites attract teen-age to middle-aged crowd. Most of the sites have free registration and generate revenue through advertisements.

SN sites are great places to spread news as it reaches the connected groups very fast. There are a few hundred SN sites currently online. Listed below are some of the popular sites now

1. Myspace - The biggest and fastest growing site .
2. Orkut - Run by google with half the user base from Brazil. About 60% of the user are in the 15-25 age group .
3. Classmates - Founded in 1995 it was one of the forerunners of Social networking sites connecting students in U.S. It has spread to different countries since then.
4. hi5 - With about 60 millions users its users spread all across the globe .
5. Friendster - About 47 million registered users connected.
6. Xanga - Collection of Weblogs
7. Windows Live Spaces - Managed by MSN , a collection of weblogs
8. Facebook - Networks of 30 million users in groups such as student, office, regional etc.
9. Linkedin - Connects 13 million professionals worldwide.
10. Live Journal - Established since 1999 , people share journals/ blogs in communities