Name Academia.edu Advogato aNobii aSmallWorld AsianAvenue Athlinks Audimated.com Avatars United Badoo Bebo BIGADDA Biip.

no BlackPlanet Blauk Blogster Bolt.com Buzznet CafeMom Cake Financial Care2 CaringBridge Cellufun Classmates.com Cloob CouchSurfing CozyCot Cross.tv Crunchyroll Cyworld DailyBooth DailyStrength Decayenne delicious deviantART Disaboom Dol2day DontStayIn Draugiem.lv douban DXY.cn Elftown Epernicus

Description/Focus
Social networking site for academics/researchers Free and open source software developers Books

Europeanjet setand social elite world-wide A social network for theAsian Americancommunity
Running, Swimming Independent music Online games General, Meet new people, Popular in Europe and Latin America General Indian Social Networking Site Norwegian community African-Americans Anyone who wants to tell something about a stranger or acquaintance.

Bloggingcommunity
General Music and pop-culture Mothers Investing

Greenliving and social activism Not for profit providing free websites that connect family and friends during Mobile social game network, Number 8 US mobile website[38]
School, college, work and the military General. Popular in Iran Worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit. East Asian and Southeast Asian women Faith Based social network for Christian believers from around the world Anime and forums. General. Popular in South Korea. Photo-blogging site where users upload a photo every day Medical & emotional support community - Physical health, Mental health, Support groups European and American social elite Social bookmarking allowing users to locate and save websites that match their own interests Art community People with disabilities (Amputee, cerebral palsy, MS, and other disabilities) Politic community, Social network, Internet radio (German-speaking countries) Clubbing (primarily UK) General (primarily LV, LT, HU)

Chinese Web 2.0 website providing user review and recommendation services for movies, books, and music. It is also Chinese online community for physicians, health care professionals, pharmacies and facilities Community and wiki around Fantasy and sci-fi.

Forresearch scientists

Eons.com Experience Project Exploroo Facebook Faceparty Faces.com Fetlife FilmAffinity FledgeWing Flixster

Forbaby boomers
Life experiences Travel Social Networking. General. General. Popular UK. Adult Social Network, Mainly UK & USA People who are into BDSM Movies and TV Series Entrepreneural community targeted towards worldwide university students Movies

Flickr

Photo sharing, commenting, photography related networking, worldwide

Focus.com Folkdirect

Business to Business, worldwide General

Fotki

Photo sharing, video hosting, photo contests, journals, forums, flexible privacy protection, friend's feed, audio commen

Fotolog Foursquare Friends Reunited Friendster Frhstckstreff Fubar Gaia Online GamerDNA Gather.com Gays.com Geni.com Gogoyoko

Photoblogging. Popular in South America and Spain Location based mobile social network UK based. School, college, work, sport and streets General. Popular in Southeast Asia. No longer popular in the western world General dating, an "online bar" for 18 and older

Animeand games. Popular in USA, Canada and Europe. Moderately popular

Computer and video games Article, picture, and video sharing, as well as group discussions Social network for LGBT community, Guide for LGBT bars, restaurants, clubs, shopping Families, genealogy Fair play in Music - Social networking site for musicians and music lovers

Goodreads Goodwizz Google+ Google Buzz GovLoop Grono.net Habbo hi5 Hospitality Club Hotlist HR.com Hub Culture Hyves Ibibo Identi.ca Indaba Music IRC-Galleria italki.com InterNations Itsmy iWiW Jaiku kaioo Kaixin001 Kiwibox Lafango LaiBhaari Last.fm LibraryThing Lifeknot LinkedIn LinkExpats Listography LiveJournal Livemocha LunarStorm Makeoutclub MEETin Meetup.com Meettheboss Mixi mobikade MocoSpace

Library cataloging, book lovers Social network with matchmaking and personality games to find new contacts. Global, based in France. General General for people in and around government

Poland
General for teens. Over 31 communities worldwide. Chat Room and user profiles.

General. Popular in India, Mongolia, Thailand, Romania, Jamaica, Central Africa, Portugal and Latin America. Not very Hospitality Geo-Social Aggregator rooted in the concept of knowing where your friends are, were, and will be. Social networking site for Human Resources professionals Global influencers focused on worth creation

General, Most popular inthe Netherlands. Talent based social networking site that allows to promote one's self and als
Twitter-like service popular with hackers and software freedom advocates. Online collaboration for musicians, remix contests, and networking. Finland Language learning social network. 100+ languages. International community Mobile community worldwide, blogging, friends, personal TV-shows

Hungary
General. Microblogging. Owned by Google General, nonprofit General. In Simplified Chinese; caters for mainland China users General. For the users, by the users, a social network that is more than a community. Talent-Focused media sharing site Marathi social networking Music Book lovers Shared interests, hobbies Business and professional networking Social networking website for expatriates. 100+ countries. Lists. Autobiography Blogging. Popular in Russia and among the Russian-speaking diaspora abroad.

Online language learning - dynamic online courses in 35 languages - world's largest community of native language spe Sweden General General General. Used to plan offline meetings for people interested in various activities Business and Finance community, worldwide.

Japan
mobile community, UK only mobile community, worldwide

MOG MouthShut.com Mubi (website) Multiply Muxlim MyAnimeList MyHeritage MyLife My Opera Myspace myYearbook Nasza-klasa.pl Netlog Nettby Nexopia NGO Post Ning Odnoklassniki OneClimate OneWorldTV Open Diary Orkut OUTeverywhere Passportstamp PatientsLikeMe Partyflock Pingsta Plaxo Playahead PureVolume Playlist.com Plurk Present.ly Qapacity Quechup Qzone Raptr Ravelry Renren ResearchGate ReverbNation.com Ryze ScienceStage

Music Social Network, social media, consumer reviews Auteur cinema

"Real world" relationships. Popular in primarily inAsia.

Muslim portal site Anime themed social community family-oriented social network service

Locating friends and family, keeping in touch (formerlyReunion.com)

Blogging, mobile blogging, photo sharing, connecting with friends, Opera Link and Opera Unite. Global General General, Charity School, college and friends. Popular in Poland

General. Popular in Europe, Turkey, the Arab World and Canada's Qubec pr
Norwegian Community Canada Non-Profit news sharing and networking, mainly in India Users create their own social websites and social networks Connect with old classmates. Popular in Russia and former Soviet republics

Not for Profit Social networking andClimate Change Not for ProfitVideo sharing and social networking aimed at people intereste
First online blogging community, founded in 1998 General. Owned by Google Inc. Popular in India and Brazil.[222] Gay/LGBTQ Community Travel Online community for patients with life-changing illnesses to find other patients like them, share their data with others,

Dutch virtual community for people interested in house music and other electronic dance music. Since 2001, Partyflock Collaborative platform for the world's Internetwork Experts Aggregator Swedish, Danish teenagers Connecting indie music bands and listeners, through music sharing and social networking General, Music

Micro-blogging, RSS, updates. Very popular inTaiwan Enterprise social networkingand micro-blogging
A a business-oriented social networking site and a business directory General, friendship, dating General. In Simplified Chinese; caters for mainland China users Video games Knitting and crochet Significant site in China. Was known as (Xiaonei) until August 2009. Social network for scientific researchers Social network for musician and bands Business Science-oriented multimedia platform and network for scientists

Scispace.net ShareTheMusic Shelfari Skyrock Social_Life_(website) SocialVibe Sonico.com Stickam StudiVZ StumbleUpon Tagged TalentTrove Talkbiznow Taltopia Taringa! TeachStreet TermWiki TravBuddy.com Travellerspoint tribe.net Trombi.com Tuenti Tumblr Twitter Vkontakte Vampirefreaks.com Viadeo Virb Vox Wakoopa Wattpad Wasabi WAYN WebBiographies WeeWorld WeOurFamily Wer-kennt-wen weRead Windows Live Spaces WiserEarth WriteAPrisoner.com Xanga XING

Collaborative network site for scientists Music Community. Sharing and listening to music for free and legally Books Social Network in French-speaking world

Brazilianjet setand social elite world-wide

Social Network for Charity General. Popular in Latin America and Spanish and Portuguese speaking regions. Live video streaming and chat. University students, mostly in the German-speaking countries. School students and those out of education sign up via Stumble through websites that match your selected interests

General. Subject to quite somecontroversy about its e-mail marketing and p

Online Talent Network Business networking Online artistic community General Education / Learning / Teaching - More than 400 subjects Learning / Languages / Translation - 1.2m terms in more than 1300 subjects Travel Travel General French subsidiary of Classmates.com

Spanish-baseduniversity and High School social network. Very Popular in Sp

General. Micro-blogging, RSS General. Micro-blogging, RSS, updates Social Network for Russian-speaking world including former Soviet republics. Biggest site in Russia Gothic and industrial subculture

Global Social Networking and Campus Networking available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portugu Social network that focuses heavily on artists, including musicians and photographers Blogging For computer fans that want to discover new software and games For readers and authors to interact & e-book sharing General. UK-based. Travel and lifestyle Genealogy and biography Teenagers - 10 to 17 General with emphasis on privacy and security General Books Blogging (formerly MSN Spaces)

Online community space for the social justice and environmental movement
Site networking inmates, friends, family Blogs and "metro" areas Business (primarily Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and China)

Xt3 Yammer Yelp, Inc. Zoo.gr

Catholic social networking, created after World Youth Day 2008 Social networking for office colleagues Local Business Review and Talk Greek Web Meeting point

Zooppa

Online Community for Creative Talent (host of brand sponsored advertising contests)

Date launched

Registeredusers

Sep-08 211,000[2] 1999 13,575[4] 2006 Mar-04 550,000[7] 1997 2001 139,458[9] 2010 Mar-08 2006 86,000,000[13] Jul-05 117,000,000[15] Aug-07 3,000,000[17] 1-Jun-05 430,000[19] 1-Sep-99 20,000,000[21] 2010 24-Nov-05 85,579[24] 1996 2005 10,000,000[27] Dec-06 1,250,000[29] 17-Sep-07 1998 9,961,947[32]

family and friends during a serious health event, care and recovery.[34] 9,500,000[35] 2007 3,000,000[39] 1995 50,000,000[41] 1,560,459[45] 2001 150,000[47] 2008 450,000[49] 24,000,000[52]
13-Feb-09 4-Nov-07 2001 Sep-03 8,822,921[57] 7-Aug-00 9,040,962[59]

mmunities they visit.

40,200[62] 2,600,466[24] 2005 46,850,000[66] 2,000,000[69] 185,000[71]

2000[68]

Feb-04 640,000,000+[77]

200,000[79] 2011 700,000[81] 500,000[83] 2002 250,000[85]

2007 63,000,000[88]

Feb-04 32,000,000[90] 2005 850,000[92] Jun-10 80,000[94]

Oct-98

1,632,565

20,000,000[97] 2,000,000[99] 19,000,000[101] 2002 90,000,000[103] Jul-01 14,800[citation needed] Oct-07 1,200,000[106] ope. Moderately popular around Asia. 23,523,663[108] 21-Sep-06 310,000[110] 465,000[112] 16-May-08 100,000[114] 16-Jan-07 15,000,000[116]

Dec-06 Oct-10 60,000[120][121]

June 28,2011

2,000,000[citation needed]
200,000,000[124][125][126] 2003 80,000,000[128]

328,629[130] 80,000[132] , were, and will be. 1999 194,000[134] Nov-02 20,000[136] 10,097,000[138] romote one's self and also discover new talent. Most popular inIndia. 3,500,000[140] 395,695[citation needed] 350,000[143] 505,000[145] 500,000[147] 2,500,000[150] 4,000,000[152]
Feb-06 Nov-07 30,000[155] 1999 2,400,000[158]

2010 2002 30,000,000[162]

100,000

400,000[164]
May-03 100,000,000[167]

15-Apr-99 17,564,977[171]

5,000,000[173] rgest community of native language speakers. 1,200,000[175]

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25-Oct-00 24,323,160[180]

3,000,000[183]

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10,000,000[188] 2006 50,000[190] 160,000[192] 30,000,000[194] 51,000,000[196] 7,300,000[198]

Aug-03 100,000,000+[199][200]

20,000,000[202] 11,000,000[204] and Canada's Qubec province. Formerly known as Facebox and Redbox.[206] 70,000,000[207]
14-Sep-06

1,400,000[210] 15,000[213] 45,000,000[216]

aimed at people interested in social issues, development, environment, etc. 1998 5,000,000[220] 22-Jan-04 100,000,000[223]

2006 109,587[227] 10th November 2001 321,125

15,000,000[231]
2003

2007 480,000,000[77][239]

743,930[241] 160,000,000[243] 400,000[245] 500,000[247] 500,000[249]

11-Oct-06

22,000,000[255] 2008 550,000[257] 435,000[citation needed]

17,000,000[260][261]

2,000,000[263] 17,000,000[265] and those out of education sign up via its partner sites schlerVZ and meinVZ. 10,600,000[267] ts e-mail marketing and privacy policy 100,000,000[269]

350,000[274]
May-10 2005 1,588,000[278] 2002 310,000[280]

4,400,000[283] etwork. Very Popular in Spain 4,500,000[citation needed]

2007 15-Jul-06 175,000,000[287][288] Sep-06 110,578,500[290] 1999 1,931,049[292] German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese 2007

35,000,000[294]

100,000[citation needed]

May-03 10,000,000[301]

30,000,000[304]

Jun-07 4,000,000[citation

needed]

120,000,000[309] environmental movement[310] 45,000[311] Sep-00 66,000[313] Unknown 27,000,000[315] 8,000,000[317]

2004 890,000[322]

60,000[324]

Registration
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Open to people 18 and older[36]

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Open to people 18 and older[42]

Open Open Open Open Open Open Open Open

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Open to people 13 and older Open Open Open to people 13 and older Invitation only to people 18 and older Open to people 18 and older worldwide Open to people "of [legal] age to see adult content" Open Open to university students Open to people 13 and older

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Open Open Open Open

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Open to people 14 and older Open Open Open to people 13 and older. Open to people 13 and older Open to people 13 and older Open Open Open Open to ages 13 and older. Open to age 13 and up & Grades 9 and up Open Open to people 13 and older Open

Open to people 13 and older[211]

Open Open to people 13 and older Open Open to People of all ages and locations Open Open to people 13 and older

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Open Open Open to people 13 years and up Open to people 18 years and up Invite-only, only Internet Experts Open Closed Open Open to people over 13 Open Open Open to people 16 and older Open to those over 16 Open to the general public Open Open Open Open Open to people 16 and older Open Open

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Invite-only Open Open Open Open to users 13 and over Open Open Open Open Open Open Open to people 18 and older Open Open to ages 13 and older. Open, subscription-based General Open Open Open to people 16 and older Open to people 18 years and older Open Open

Open Must have company email Open Open

Open to people 14 and older[325]

GlobalAlexa[1]Pageranking

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27,320[74] 3,452[75] 209,868[76] 2[78] 28,760[80] 97,835[82] 5,513[84] 3,916[86] 1,793,990[87] 1,018[89]

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1,231,795[252] 471,712[253] 19,681[254] 111[256] 154,533[258] 41,927[259] 507[262] 2,742[264] 316[266] 185[268] 117[270] 21,177[271] 283,770[272] 52,759[273] 126[275] 61,492[276] 16,182[277] 11,789[279] 11,486[281] 5,706[282] 7,283[284] 291[285] 245[286] 10[289] 37[291] 7,577[293] 710[295] 22,474[296] 1,319[297] 9,420[298] 11,008[299] 95,188[300] 2,974[302] 734,214[303] 8,729[305] 685,337[306] 441[307] 80,233[308] NA (Alexa only records data forsecond-level domains) 77,143[312] 252,188[314] 768[316] 269[318]

459,914[319] 32,993[320] 343[321] 8,057[323]

88,555[326]

Name Academia.edu Advogato aNobii aSmallWorld AsianAvenue Athlinks Audimated.com Avatars United Badoo Bebo BIGADDA Biip.no BlackPlanet Blauk Blogster Bolt.com Buzznet CafeMom Cake Financial Care2 CaringBridge Cellufun Classmates.com Cloob CouchSurfing CozyCot Cross.tv Crunchyroll Cyworld DailyBooth DailyStrength Decayenne delicious deviantART Disaboom Dol2day DontStayIn Draugiem.lv douban DXY.cn Elftown Epernicus

Description/Focus
Social networking site for academics/researchers Free and open source software developers Books

Europeanjet setand social elite world-wide A social network for theAsian Americancommunity
Running, Swimming Independent music Online games General, Meet new people, Popular in Europe and Latin America General Indian Social Networking Site Norwegian community African-Americans Anyone who wants to tell something about a stranger or acquaintance.

Bloggingcommunity
General Music and pop-culture Mothers Investing

Greenliving and social activism Not for profit providing free websites that connect family and friends during Mobile social game network, Number 8 US mobile website[38]
School, college, work and the military General. Popular in Iran Worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit. East Asian and Southeast Asian women Faith Based social network for Christian believers from around the world Anime and forums. General. Popular in South Korea. Photo-blogging site where users upload a photo every day Medical & emotional support community - Physical health, Mental health, Support groups European and American social elite Social bookmarking allowing users to locate and save websites that match their own interests Art community People with disabilities (Amputee, cerebral palsy, MS, and other disabilities) Politic community, Social network, Internet radio (German-speaking countries) Clubbing (primarily UK) General (primarily LV, LT, HU)

Chinese Web 2.0 website providing user review and recommendation services for movies, books, and music. It is also Chinese online community for physicians, health care professionals, pharmacies and facilities Community and wiki around Fantasy and sci-fi.

Forresearch scientists

Eons.com Experience Project Exploroo Facebook Faceparty Faces.com Fetlife FilmAffinity FledgeWing Flixster

Forbaby boomers
Life experiences Travel Social Networking. General. General. Popular UK. Adult Social Network, Mainly UK & USA People who are into BDSM Movies and TV Series Entrepreneural community targeted towards worldwide university students Movies

Flickr

Photo sharing, commenting, photography related networking, worldwide

Focus.com Folkdirect

Business to Business, worldwide General

Fotki

Photo sharing, video hosting, photo contests, journals, forums, flexible privacy protection, friend's feed, audio commen

Fotolog Foursquare Friends Reunited Friendster Frhstckstreff Fubar Gaia Online GamerDNA Gather.com Gays.com Geni.com Gogoyoko

Photoblogging. Popular in South America and Spain Location based mobile social network UK based. School, college, work, sport and streets General. Popular in Southeast Asia. No longer popular in the western world General dating, an "online bar" for 18 and older

Animeand games. Popular in USA, Canada and Europe. Moderately popular

Computer and video games Article, picture, and video sharing, as well as group discussions Social network for LGBT community, Guide for LGBT bars, restaurants, clubs, shopping Families, genealogy Fair play in Music - Social networking site for musicians and music lovers

Goodreads Goodwizz Google+ Google Buzz GovLoop Grono.net Habbo hi5 Hospitality Club Hotlist HR.com Hub Culture Hyves Ibibo Identi.ca Indaba Music IRC-Galleria italki.com InterNations Itsmy iWiW Jaiku kaioo Kaixin001 Kiwibox Lafango LaiBhaari Last.fm LibraryThing Lifeknot LinkedIn LinkExpats Listography LiveJournal Livemocha LunarStorm Makeoutclub MEETin Meetup.com Meettheboss Mixi mobikade MocoSpace

Library cataloging, book lovers Social network with matchmaking and personality games to find new contacts. Global, based in France. General General for people in and around government

Poland
General for teens. Over 31 communities worldwide. Chat Room and user profiles.

General. Popular in India, Mongolia, Thailand, Romania, Jamaica, Central Africa, Portugal and Latin America. Not very Hospitality Geo-Social Aggregator rooted in the concept of knowing where your friends are, were, and will be. Social networking site for Human Resources professionals Global influencers focused on worth creation

General, Most popular inthe Netherlands. Talent based social networking site that allows to promote one's self and als
Twitter-like service popular with hackers and software freedom advocates. Online collaboration for musicians, remix contests, and networking. Finland Language learning social network. 100+ languages. International community Mobile community worldwide, blogging, friends, personal TV-shows

Hungary
General. Microblogging. Owned by Google General, nonprofit General. In Simplified Chinese; caters for mainland China users General. For the users, by the users, a social network that is more than a community. Talent-Focused media sharing site Marathi social networking Music Book lovers Shared interests, hobbies Business and professional networking Social networking website for expatriates. 100+ countries. Lists. Autobiography Blogging. Popular in Russia and among the Russian-speaking diaspora abroad.

Online language learning - dynamic online courses in 35 languages - world's largest community of native language spe Sweden General General General. Used to plan offline meetings for people interested in various activities Business and Finance community, worldwide.

Japan
mobile community, UK only mobile community, worldwide

MOG MouthShut.com Mubi (website) Multiply Muxlim MyAnimeList MyHeritage MyLife My Opera Myspace myYearbook Nasza-klasa.pl Netlog Nettby Nexopia NGO Post Ning Odnoklassniki OneClimate OneWorldTV Open Diary Orkut OUTeverywhere Passportstamp PatientsLikeMe Partyflock Pingsta Plaxo Playahead PureVolume Playlist.com Plurk Present.ly Qapacity Quechup Qzone Raptr Ravelry Renren ResearchGate ReverbNation.com Ryze ScienceStage

Music Social Network, social media, consumer reviews Auteur cinema

"Real world" relationships. Popular in primarily inAsia.

Muslim portal site Anime themed social community family-oriented social network service

Locating friends and family, keeping in touch (formerlyReunion.com)

Blogging, mobile blogging, photo sharing, connecting with friends, Opera Link and Opera Unite. Global General General, Charity School, college and friends. Popular in Poland

General. Popular in Europe, Turkey, the Arab World and Canada's Qubec pr
Norwegian Community Canada Non-Profit news sharing and networking, mainly in India Users create their own social websites and social networks Connect with old classmates. Popular in Russia and former Soviet republics

Not for Profit Social networking andClimate Change Not for ProfitVideo sharing and social networking aimed at people intereste
First online blogging community, founded in 1998 General. Owned by Google Inc. Popular in India and Brazil.[222] Gay/LGBTQ Community Travel Online community for patients with life-changing illnesses to find other patients like them, share their data with others,

Dutch virtual community for people interested in house music and other electronic dance music. Since 2001, Partyflock Collaborative platform for the world's Internetwork Experts Aggregator Swedish, Danish teenagers Connecting indie music bands and listeners, through music sharing and social networking General, Music

Micro-blogging, RSS, updates. Very popular inTaiwan Enterprise social networkingand micro-blogging
A a business-oriented social networking site and a business directory General, friendship, dating General. In Simplified Chinese; caters for mainland China users Video games Knitting and crochet Significant site in China. Was known as (Xiaonei) until August 2009. Social network for scientific researchers Social network for musician and bands Business Science-oriented multimedia platform and network for scientists

Scispace.net ShareTheMusic Shelfari Skyrock Social_Life_(website) SocialVibe Sonico.com Stickam StudiVZ StumbleUpon Tagged TalentTrove Talkbiznow Taltopia Taringa! TeachStreet TermWiki TravBuddy.com Travellerspoint tribe.net Trombi.com Tuenti Tumblr Twitter Vkontakte Vampirefreaks.com Viadeo Virb Vox Wakoopa Wattpad Wasabi WAYN WebBiographies WeeWorld WeOurFamily Wer-kennt-wen weRead Windows Live Spaces WiserEarth WriteAPrisoner.com Xanga XING

Collaborative network site for scientists Music Community. Sharing and listening to music for free and legally Books Social Network in French-speaking world

Brazilianjet setand social elite world-wide

Social Network for Charity General. Popular in Latin America and Spanish and Portuguese speaking regions. Live video streaming and chat. University students, mostly in the German-speaking countries. School students and those out of education sign up via Stumble through websites that match your selected interests

General. Subject to quite somecontroversy about its e-mail marketing and p

Online Talent Network Business networking Online artistic community General Education / Learning / Teaching - More than 400 subjects Learning / Languages / Translation - 1.2m terms in more than 1300 subjects Travel Travel General French subsidiary of Classmates.com

Spanish-baseduniversity and High School social network. Very Popular in Sp

General. Micro-blogging, RSS General. Micro-blogging, RSS, updates Social Network for Russian-speaking world including former Soviet republics. Biggest site in Russia Gothic and industrial subculture

Global Social Networking and Campus Networking available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portugu Social network that focuses heavily on artists, including musicians and photographers Blogging For computer fans that want to discover new software and games For readers and authors to interact & e-book sharing General. UK-based. Travel and lifestyle Genealogy and biography Teenagers - 10 to 17 General with emphasis on privacy and security General Books Blogging (formerly MSN Spaces)

Online community space for the social justice and environmental movement
Site networking inmates, friends, family Blogs and "metro" areas Business (primarily Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and China)

Xt3 Yammer Yelp, Inc. Zoo.gr

Catholic social networking, created after World Youth Day 2008 Social networking for office colleagues Local Business Review and Talk Greek Web Meeting point

Zooppa

Online Community for Creative Talent (host of brand sponsored advertising contests)

Date launched
Sep-08 1999 2006 Mar-04 1997 2001 2010 Mar-08 2006 Jul-05 Aug-07 1-Jun-05 1-Sep-99 2010 24-Nov-05 1996 2005 Dec-06 17-Sep-07 1998

Registeredusers

211,000 13,575 550,000 139,458

86,000,000 117,000,000 3,000,000 430,000 20,000,000 85,579 10,000,000 1,250,000

9,961,947 family and friends during a serious health event, care and recovery.[34] 9,500,000 3,000,000 2007 50,000,000 1995 1,560,459 150,000 450,000 24,000,000
13-Feb-09 4-Nov-07 2001 Sep-03 7-Aug-00

mmunities they visit. 2001 2008

8,822,921 9,040,962 40,200 2,600,466 46,850,000 2,000,000 185,000

2005

2000[68]

Feb-04

2011

2002

640,000,000 200,000 700,000 500,000 250,000 63,000,000

2007

Feb-04 2005 Jun-10

32,000,000 850,000 80,000

Oct-98

1,632,565

2002 Jul-01 Oct-07

ope. Moderately popular around Asia.

21-Sep-06

16-May-08 16-Jan-07

20,000,000 2,000,000 19,000,000 90,000,000 14,800 1,200,000 23,523,663 310,000 465,000 100,000 15,000,000

Dec-06 Oct-10 60,000

June 28,2011

2,000,000
200,000,000

80,000,000 2003 328,629 80,000 , were, and will be. 194,000 1999 20,000 Nov-02 10,097,000 romote one's self and also discover new talent. Most popular inIndia. 3,500,000 395,695 350,000 505,000 500,000 2,500,000 4,000,000
Feb-06 Nov-07

30,000 2,400,000
100,000

1999

2010 2002

30,000,000 400,000 100,000,000

May-03

15-Apr-99

rgest community of native language speakers.

17,564,977 5,000,000 1,200,000

9-Aug-99

25-Oct-00

24,323,160 3,000,000

200,000

2006

erlyReunion.com)
Aug-03

nd Opera Unite. Global

10,000,000 50,000 160,000 30,000,000 51,000,000 7,300,000

100,000,000

20,000,000 11,000,000 and Canada's Qubec province. Formerly known70,000,000 and Redbox.[206] as Facebox
14-Sep-06

1,400,000 15,000 45,000,000

aimed at people interested in social issues, development, environment, etc. 5,000,000 1998 100,000,000 22-Jan-04

2006 10th November 2001

109,587
321,125

15,000,000
2003

2007 480,000,000

743,930 160,000,000 400,000 500,000 500,000

11-Oct-06

2008

22,000,000 550,000 435,000

17,000,000

2,000,000 17,000,000 and those out of education sign up via its partner sites schlerVZ and meinVZ. 10,600,000 ts e-mail marketing and privacy policy 100,000,000

350,000
May-10 2005 2002

1,588,000 310,000 4,400,000 4,500,000

175,000,000

etwork. Very Popular in Spain

2007 15-Jul-06 Sep-06 1999 German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese 2007

110,578,500 1,931,049 35,000,000

100,000

May-03

10,000,000 30,000,000

Jun-07

environmental movement[310]
Sep-00 Unknown

4,000,000 120,000,000 45,000 66,000 27,000,000 8,000,000

2004

890,000

60,000

Registration
Open Open Open

Invite-only
Open Open Open Open Open to people 18 and older Open to people 13 and older Open to people 16 and older Requires Norwegian phone number Open Open to people 13 and older. Open Open Open Open to moms and moms-to-be Open Open

Open to people 18 and older[36]

Open to people 14 and older

Open to people 18 and older[42]

Open Open Open Open Open Open Open Open

Invite-only
Open Open Open Open Open Invitation only Open Open Open, approval needed Open

Open to people 13 and older Open Open Open to people 13 and older Invitation only to people 18 and older Open to people 18 and older worldwide Open to people "of [legal] age to see adult content" Open Open to university students Open to people 13 and older

Open to people 13 and older (Yahoo!Login)

Open to people 13 and older Open to people 16 and older

Open Open Open Open to people 13 and older Open to people 16 and older. Open Open to people 18+ Open to people 13 and older Open Open Open, Global Open Invite only while in beta

Open Open Open Open

Open Open to people 13 and older Open to people 13 and older. Open Open Open

Invite-only
Open Open Open Open, Global Open to Finnish speaking people 12 and older Open, Global

Invite-only Invite-only
Open to people 13 and older

Open to the General Public Open to people 13 and older Open, Global Open Open Open to people 13 and older Open to people 18 and older Open to people 18 and older Open, Global Open

Open (OpenID)
Open Open Open Open Open to people 18 and older Open

Invite-only
Open to people 18 and older Open to people 14 and older

Open to people 14 and older Open Open Open to people 13 and older. Open to people 13 and older Open to people 13 and older Open Open Open Open to ages 13 and older. Open to age 13 and up & Grades 9 and up Open Open to people 13 and older Open

Open to people 13 and older[211]

Open Open to people 13 and older Open Open to People of all ages and locations Open Open to people 13 and older

Open to people 18 and older, (Googlelogin)

Open Open Open to people 13 years and up Open to people 18 years and up Invite-only, only Internet Experts Open Closed Open Open to people over 13 Open Open Open to people 16 and older Open to those over 16 Open to the general public Open Open Open Open Open to people 16 and older Open Open

By invitation, but can request an invitation Open Open Open

Invite-only
Open Open to people 13 and older Open Open Open Open Open Open Open Open to people 13 and older Open Open Open to people 18 and older Open Open

Invite-only Open Open Open Open to users 13 and over Open Open Open Open Open Open Open to people 18 and older Open Open to ages 13 and older. Open, subscription-based General Open Open Open to people 16 and older Open to people 18 years and older Open Open

Open Must have company email Open Open

Open to people 14 and older[325]

GlobalAlexa[1]Pageranking

9,294[3] 139,873[5] 11,992[6] 5,978[8] 75,362[10] 486,598[11] 9,641,523[12] 128[14] 2,148[16] 11,684[18] 65,176[20] 2,350[22] 937,454[23] 23,485[25] 111,069[26] 1,132[28] 4,333[30] 481,922[31] 2,594[33] 4,198[37] 46,773[40] 2,961[43] 914[44] 3,711[46] 3,711[48] 30,741[50] 2,328[51] 1,027[53] 5,460[54] 22,054[55] 154,733[56] 239[58] 126[60] 112,712[61] 554,616[63] 19,022[64] 2,272[65] 139[67] 14,559[70] 17,681[72] 293,955[73]

27,320[74] 3,452[75] 209,868[76] 2[78] 28,760[80] 97,835[82] 5,513[84] 3,916[86] 1,793,990[87] 1,018[89]

33[91]
-

11,495[93] 19,932[95]

5,367[96]
-

1,194[98] 4,539[100] 10,231[102] 979[104] 1,253,155[105] 9,476[107] 1,071[109] 22,887[111] 3,974[113] 74,664[115] 5,815[117] 119,272[118]

2,543[119] 214,214[122] NA (Alexa only records data forSecond-level domains) NA (Alexa only records data forsecond-level domains) 2,958[123] 6,545[127] 265[129] 38,258[131] 28,241[133] 60,048[135] 515,308[137] 225[139] 695[141] 3,822[142] 55,062[144] 3,302[146] 29,939[148] 25,604[149] 206,437[151] 532[153] 15,661[154] 386,200[156] 61[157] 104,563[159] 35,810[160] 72,473[161] 310[163] 4,529[165] 602,117[166] 17[168] 1,668,484[169] 197,009[170] 81[172] 4,079[174] 65,874[176] 173,717[177] 739[178] 107,180[179] 85[181] 1,851,728[182] 3,685[184]

4,221[185] 2,545[186] 25,648[187] 246[189] 59,099[191] 6,096[193] 2,953[195] 1,481[197] NA (Alexa only records data forsecond-level domains) 46[201] 851[203] 110[205] 130[208] 2,719[209] 24,071[212] 70,134[214] 132[215] 92[217] 307,773[218] 27,434,227[219] 39,290[221] 43[224] 329,887[225] 366,598[226] 57,962[228] 7,226[229] 1,668,955[230] 1,533[232] 63,081[233] 20,822[234] 1,072[235] 4,893,711[236] 96,847[237] 150,757[238] NA (Alexa only records data forsecond-level domains) 25,664[240] 7,811[242] 103[244] 23,095[246] 4,422[248] 19,839[250] 26,804[251]

1,231,795[252] 471,712[253] 19,681[254] 111[256] 154,533[258] 41,927[259] 507[262] 2,742[264] 316[266] 185[268] 117[270] 21,177[271] 283,770[272] 52,759[273] 126[275] 61,492[276] 16,182[277] 11,789[279] 11,486[281] 5,706[282] 7,283[284] 291[285] 245[286] 10[289] 37[291] 7,577[293] 710[295] 22,474[296] 1,319[297] 9,420[298] 11,008[299] 95,188[300] 2,974[302] 734,214[303] 8,729[305] 685,337[306] 441[307] 80,233[308] NA (Alexa only records data forsecond-level domains) 77,143[312] 252,188[314] 768[316] 269[318]

459,914[319] 32,993[320] 343[321] 8,057[323]

88,555[326]

Name Facebook Qzone Habbo Twitter Renren Windows Live Spaces Bebo Vkontakte LinkedIn Myspace Orkut Tagged Friendster Badoo hi5 Netlog Flixster MyLife Classmates.com douban Odnoklassniki Viadeo Flickr Last.fm MyHeritage WeeWorld Xanga Mixi Cyworld Gaia Online Skyrock BlackPlanet Fotolog myYearbook Friends Reunited LiveJournal Sonico.com StudiVZ Geni.com Plaxo Nasza-klasa.pl StumbleUpon

Description/Focus
General. General. In Simplified Chinese; caters for mainland China users General for teens. Over 31 communities worldwide. Chat Room and user profiles. General. Micro-blogging, RSS, updates Significant site in China. Was known as (Xiaonei) until August 2009. Blogging (formerly MSN Spaces) General Social Network for Russian-speaking world including former Soviet republics. Biggest site in Russia Business and professional networking General General. Owned by Google Inc. Popular in India and Brazil.[222]

General. Subject to quite somecontroversy about its e-mail marketing and p

General. Popular in Southeast Asia. No longer popular in the western world General, Meet new people, Popular in Europe and Latin America

General. Popular in India, Mongolia, Thailand, Romania, Jamaica, Central Africa, Portugal and Latin America. Not very

General. Popular in Europe, Turkey, the Arab World and Canada's Qubec pr
Movies

Locating friends and family, keeping in touch (formerlyReunion.com)

School, college, work and the military

Chinese Web 2.0 website providing user review and recommendation services for movies, books, and music. It is also Connect with old classmates. Popular in Russia and former Soviet republics

Global Social Networking and Campus Networking available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portugu Photo sharing, commenting, photography related networking, worldwide Music family-oriented social network service Teenagers - 10 to 17 Blogs and "metro" areas

Japan
General. Popular in South Korea.

Animeand games. Popular in USA, Canada and Europe. Moderately popular

Social Network in French-speaking world African-Americans Photoblogging. Popular in South America and Spain General, Charity UK based. School, college, work, sport and streets Blogging. Popular in Russia and among the Russian-speaking diaspora abroad. General. Popular in Latin America and Spanish and Portuguese speaking regions. University students, mostly in the German-speaking countries. School students and those out of education sign up via Families, genealogy Aggregator School, college and friends. Popular in Poland Stumble through websites that match your selected interests

Hyves Buzznet Multiply WAYN Care2 CaringBridge deviantART delicious XING My Opera Livemocha Open Diary Tuenti Trombi.com iWiW weRead Ibibo BIGADDA Cellufun MocoSpace Draugiem.lv Itsmy Kiwibox DXY.cn Foursquare Grono.net Stickam Vampirefreaks.com Fotki TravBuddy.com CouchSurfing Nexopia CafeMom Fubar LunarStorm Zoo.gr Focus.com Ravelry Faces.com aSmallWorld Social_Life_(website) IRC-Galleria Fetlife

General, Most popular inthe Netherlands.

Music and pop-culture

"Real world" relationships. Popular in primarily inAsia.

Travel and lifestyle

Greenliving and social activism Not for profit providing free websites that connect family and friends during
Art community Social bookmarking allowing users to locate and save websites that match their own interests Business (primarily Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and China) Blogging, mobile blogging, photo sharing, connecting with friends, Opera Link and Opera Unite. Global

Online language learning - dynamic online courses in 35 languages - world's largest community of native language spe First online blogging community, founded in 1998

Spanish-baseduniversity and High School social network. Very Popular in Sp

French subsidiary of Classmates.com

Hungary
Books

Talent based social networking site that allows to promote one's self and als
Indian Social Networking Site

Mobile social game network, Number 8 US mobile website[38]

mobile community, worldwide General (primarily LV, LT, HU) Mobile community worldwide, blogging, friends, personal TV-shows General. For the users, by the users, a social network that is more than a community. Chinese online community for physicians, health care professionals, pharmacies and facilities Location based mobile social network

Poland
Live video streaming and chat. Gothic and industrial subculture

Photo sharing, video hosting, photo contests, journals, forums, flexible privacy protection, friend's feed, audio commen Travel Worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit. Canada Mothers dating, an "online bar" for 18 and older Sweden Greek Web Meeting point Business to Business, worldwide Knitting and crochet Adult Social Network, Mainly UK & USA

Europeanjet setand social elite world-wide Brazilianjet setand social elite world-wide
Finland People who are into BDSM

italki.com ReverbNation.com Ryze Gather.com Cross.tv SocialVibe Biip.no LibraryThing ResearchGate Identi.ca Indaba Music Taringa! Hospitality Club Partyflock GamerDNA Travellerspoint FilmAffinity Academia.edu Faceparty Mubi (website) HR.com Elftown MyAnimeList CozyCot Athlinks PatientsLikeMe Gays.com LaiBhaari Wakoopa Blogster Folkdirect Hotlist WriteAPrisoner.com Goodwizz Zooppa Muxlim WiserEarth Dol2day kaioo Hub Culture NGO Post Frhstckstreff Advogato

Language learning social network. 100+ languages. Social network for musician and bands Business Article, picture, and video sharing, as well as group discussions Faith Based social network for Christian believers from around the world Social Network for Charity Norwegian community Book lovers Social network for scientific researchers Twitter-like service popular with hackers and software freedom advocates. Online collaboration for musicians, remix contests, and networking. General Hospitality

Dutch virtual community for people interested in house music and other electronic dance music. Since 2001, Partyflock Computer and video games Travel Movies and TV Series Social networking site for academics/researchers General. Popular UK. Auteur cinema Social networking site for Human Resources professionals Community and wiki around Fantasy and sci-fi. Anime themed social community East Asian and Southeast Asian women Running, Swimming Online community for patients with life-changing illnesses to find other patients like them, share their data with others, Social network for LGBT community, Guide for LGBT bars, restaurants, clubs, shopping Marathi social networking For computer fans that want to discover new software and games

Bloggingcommunity
General Geo-Social Aggregator rooted in the concept of knowing where your friends are, were, and will be. Site networking inmates, friends, family Social network with matchmaking and personality games to find new contacts. Global, based in France. Online Community for Creative Talent (host of brand sponsored advertising contests) Muslim portal site

Online community space for the social justice and environmental movement
Politic community, Social network, Internet radio (German-speaking countries) General, nonprofit Global influencers focused on worth creation Non-Profit news sharing and networking, mainly in India General Free and open source software developers

aNobii AsianAvenue Audimated.com Avatars United Blauk Bolt.com Cake Financial Cloob Crunchyroll DailyBooth DailyStrength Decayenne Disaboom DontStayIn Epernicus Eons.com Experience Project Exploroo FledgeWing Gogoyoko Goodreads Google+ Google Buzz GovLoop InterNations Jaiku Kaixin001 Lafango Lifeknot LinkExpats Listography Makeoutclub MEETin Meetup.com Meettheboss mobikade MOG MouthShut.com Nettby Ning OneClimate OneWorldTV OUTeverywhere

Books

A social network for theAsian Americancommunity

Independent music Online games Anyone who wants to tell something about a stranger or acquaintance. General Investing General. Popular in Iran Anime and forums. Photo-blogging site where users upload a photo every day Medical & emotional support community - Physical health, Mental health, Support groups European and American social elite People with disabilities (Amputee, cerebral palsy, MS, and other disabilities) Clubbing (primarily UK)

Forresearch scientists Forbaby boomers

Life experiences Travel Social Networking. Entrepreneural community targeted towards worldwide university students Fair play in Music - Social networking site for musicians and music lovers Library cataloging, book lovers General General for people in and around government International community General. Microblogging. Owned by Google General. In Simplified Chinese; caters for mainland China users Talent-Focused media sharing site Shared interests, hobbies Social networking website for expatriates. 100+ countries. Lists. Autobiography General General General. Used to plan offline meetings for people interested in various activities Business and Finance community, worldwide. mobile community, UK only Music Social Network, social media, consumer reviews Norwegian Community Users create their own social websites and social networks

Not for Profit Social networking andClimate Change Not for ProfitVideo sharing and social networking aimed at people intereste
Gay/LGBTQ Community

Passportstamp Pingsta Playahead PureVolume Playlist.com Plurk Present.ly Qapacity Quechup Raptr ScienceStage Scispace.net ShareTheMusic Shelfari TalentTrove Talkbiznow Taltopia TeachStreet TermWiki tribe.net Tumblr Virb Vox Wattpad Wasabi WebBiographies WeOurFamily Wer-kennt-wen Xt3 Yammer Yelp, Inc.

Travel Collaborative platform for the world's Internetwork Experts Swedish, Danish teenagers Connecting indie music bands and listeners, through music sharing and social networking General, Music

Micro-blogging, RSS, updates. Very popular inTaiwan Enterprise social networkingand micro-blogging
A a business-oriented social networking site and a business directory General, friendship, dating Video games Science-oriented multimedia platform and network for scientists Collaborative network site for scientists Music Community. Sharing and listening to music for free and legally Books Online Talent Network Business networking Online artistic community Education / Learning / Teaching - More than 400 subjects Learning / Languages / Translation - 1.2m terms in more than 1300 subjects General General. Micro-blogging, RSS Social network that focuses heavily on artists, including musicians and photographers Blogging For readers and authors to interact & e-book sharing General. UK-based. Genealogy and biography General with emphasis on privacy and security General Catholic social networking, created after World Youth Day 2008 Social networking for office colleagues Local Business Review and Talk

Date launched
Feb-04

Registeredusers

640,000,000
480,000,000 200,000,000

15-Jul-06

175,000,000

Jul-05 Sep-06 May-03 Aug-03 22-Jan-04

160,000,000 120,000,000 117,000,000 110,578,500 100,000,000

100,000,000

100,000,000 ts e-mail marketing and privacy policy 100,000,000 90,000,000 2002 86,000,000 2006 80,000,000 2003 and Canada's Qubec province. Formerly known as Facebox and Redbox.[206] 70,000,000 63,000,000 2007 erlyReunion.com) 51,000,000 50,000,000 1995 46,850,000 2005 45,000,000 35,000,000 German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese 32,000,000 Feb-04 30,000,000 2002 30,000,000 30,000,000 Unknown 27,000,000 24,323,160 25-Oct-00 24,000,000 ope. Moderately popular around Asia. 23,523,663 22,000,000 20,000,000 1-Sep-99 20,000,000 20,000,000 19,000,000 17,564,977 15-Apr-99
17,000,000

17,000,000 and those out of education sign up via its partner sites schlerVZ and meinVZ.
16-Jan-07

15,000,000 15,000,000 11,000,000 10,600,000

10,097,000 10,000,000 2005 10,000,000 10,000,000 May-03 9,961,947 1998 family and friends during a serious health event, care and recovery.[34] 9,500,000 9,040,962 7-Aug-00 8,822,921 Sep-03 8,000,000 7,300,000 nd Opera Unite. Global 5,000,000 rgest community of native language speakers. 5,000,000 1998 etwork. Very Popular in Spain 4,500,000 4,400,000 4,000,000 4,000,000 Jun-07 romote one's self and also discover new talent. Most popular inIndia. 3,500,000 3,000,000 Aug-07 3,000,000 2007 3,000,000 2,600,466 2,500,000 2,400,000 1999 2000[68] 2,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 1,931,049 1999
Oct-98 2005 1,632,565

mmunities they visit.

Dec-06 Oct-07

2004 2005

2011 Mar-04 2008

1,588,000 1,560,459 1,400,000 1,250,000 1,200,000 1,200,000 890,000 850,000 743,930 700,000 550,000 550,000 505,000 500,000

2008

1-Jun-05

500,000 500,000 500,000 465,000 450,000 435,000 430,000 400,000 400,000 395,695 350,000 350,000 328,629
321,125

10th November 2001 21-Sep-06 2002 2002 Sep-08

310,000 310,000 250,000 211,000 200,000

200,000

1999

2001 2001 2006 16-May-08 2010

194,000 185,000 160,000 150,000 139,458 109,587 100,000

100,000

24-Nov-05 Jun-10

, were, and will be. Sep-00 Oct-10

100,000 85,579 80,000 80,000 66,000

60,000

2006

environmental movement[310]
Nov-07 Nov-02

Jul-01 1999

60,000 50,000 45,000 40,200 30,000 20,000 15,000 14,800 13,575

2006 1997 2010 Mar-08 2010 1996 17-Sep-07

13-Feb-09 4-Nov-07 2001

Dec-06

June 28,2011

Feb-06

9-Aug-99

14-Sep-06

aimed at people interested in social issues, development, environment, etc.

2003

2007

11-Oct-06

May-10

2007 2007

Registration
Open to people 13 and older Open to the general public Open to people 13 and older Open Open Open Open to people 13 and older Open Open to people 18 and older Open to ages 13 and older.

Open to people 18 and older, (Googlelogin)

Open Open to people 16 and older. Open to people 18 and older Open to people 13 and older. Open to people 13 and older Open to people 13 and older Open

Open to people 18 and older[42]

Open Open Open

Open to people 13 and older (Yahoo!Login)

Open Open Open to ages 13 and older. Open

Invite-only
Open Open to people 13 and older Open Open Open Open to age 13 and up & Grades 9 and up Open to people 13 and older

Open (OpenID)
Open to people 13 and older Open Open Open Open Open

Open Open Open to people 13 and older. Open to people 18 and older Open

Open to people 18 and older[36]

Open Open Open Open Open Open to people 13 and older Invite-only

Invite-only
Open Open Open to people 16 and older Open to people 14 and older Open to people 14 and older Invitation only

Open to people 13 and older Open Open Open Open Open to users 13 and over Open Open to people 18 and older Open

Open to people 13 and older[211]

Open to moms and moms-to-be Open to people 18+ Open Open Open to people 13 and older Open Open to people 18 and older worldwide

Invite-only Invite-only
Open to Finnish speaking people 12 and older Open to people "of [legal] age to see adult content"

Open, Global Open to people 16 and older Open Open Open Open Requires Norwegian phone number Open to people 13 and older Open Open Open, Global Open to people 13 and older Open Open to people 18 years and up Open Open Open Open Invitation only to people 18 and older Open Open Open, approval needed Open to people 13 and older Open Open Open to people 13 years and up Open, Global Open Open Open Open to people 16 and older Open Open to people 18 years and older Open

Open to people 14 and older[325]

Open to people 13 and older Open to people 16 and older Open

Invite-only
Open Open Open

Open Open Open Open Open to people 13 and older. Open Open Open Open Open Open

Invite-only
Open Open Open Open to people 13 and older Open Open Open to university students Invite only while in beta Open Open Open

Invite-only
Open to people 13 and older Open to the General Public Open, Global Open to people 18 and older Open, Global Open Open Open Open to people 18 and older Open Open to people 18 and older Open to people 14 and older Open Open Open to people 13 and older Open to People of all ages and locations Open Open

Open Invite-only, only Internet Experts Closed Open Open to people over 13 Open Open Open to people 16 and older Open to those over 16 Open Open By invitation, but can request an invitation Open Open Open Open Open Open Open Open Open Open Open Open Open Open Open, subscription-based General Open Must have company email Open

GlobalAlexa[1]Pageranking

2[78] NA (Alexa only records data forsecond-level domains) 6,545[127] 10[289] 103[244] NA (Alexa only records data forsecond-level domains) 2,148[16] 37[291] 17[168] 46[201] 43[224] 117[270] 979[104] 128[14] 265[129] 130[208] 1,018[89] 1,481[197] 2,961[43] 139[67] 92[217] 710[295] 33[91] 310[163] 2,953[195] 8,729[305] 768[316] 85[181] 1,027[53] 1,071[109] 111[256] 2,350[22] 1,194[98] 851[203] 10,231[102] 81[172] 507[262] 316[266] 5,815[117] 1,533[232] 110[205] 185[268]

225[139] 1,132[28] 246[189] 2,974[302] 2,594[33] 4,198[37] 126[60] 239[58] 269[318] NA (Alexa only records data forsecond-level domains) 4,079[174] 39,290[221] 291[285] 7,283[284] 532[153] 80,233[308] 695[141] 11,684[18] 46,773[40] 3,685[184] 2,272[65] 206,437[151] 104,563[159] 14,559[70] 4,539[100] 2,958[123] 2,742[264] 7,577[293] 5,367[96] 11,789[279] 3,711[46] 24,071[212] 4,333[30] 9,476[107] 65,874[176] 8,057[323] 11,495[93] 7,811[242] 97,835[82] 5,978[8] 154,533[258] 3,302[146] 5,513[84]

29,939[148] 4,422[248] 19,839[250] 3,974[113] 30,741[50] 41,927[259] 65,176[20] 4,529[165] 23,095[246] 3,822[142] 55,062[144] 126[275] 38,258[131] 7,226[229] 22,887[111] 11,486[281] 3,916[86] 9,294[3] 28,760[80] 25,648[187] 60,048[135] 17,681[72] 6,096[193] 3,711[48] 75,362[10] 57,962[228] 74,664[115] 72,473[161] 9,420[298] 23,485[25] 19,932[95] 28,241[133] 252,188[314] 214,214[122] 88,555[326] 59,099[191] 77,143[312] 554,616[63] 386,200[156] 515,308[137] 70,134[214] 1,253,155[105] 139,873[5]

11,992[6] 486,598[11] 9,641,523[12] 937,454[23] 111,069[26] 481,922[31] 914[44] 2,328[51] 5,460[54] 22,054[55] 154,733[56] 112,712[61] 19,022[64] 293,955[73] 27,320[74] 3,452[75] 209,868[76] 1,793,990[87] 119,272[118] 2,543[119] NA (Alexa only records data forSecond-level domains) NA (Alexa only records data forsecond-level domains) 25,604[149] 15,661[154] 61[157] 35,810[160] 602,117[166] 1,668,484[169] 197,009[170] 173,717[177] 739[178] 107,180[179] 1,851,728[182] 4,221[185] 2,545[186] 2,719[209] 132[215] 307,773[218] 27,434,227[219] 329,887[225]

366,598[226] 1,668,955[230] 63,081[233] 20,822[234] 1,072[235] 4,893,711[236] 96,847[237] 150,757[238] 25,664[240] 26,804[251] 1,231,795[252] 471,712[253] 19,681[254] 21,177[271] 283,770[272] 52,759[273] 61,492[276] 16,182[277] 5,706[282] 245[286] 22,474[296] 1,319[297] 11,008[299] 95,188[300] 734,214[303] 685,337[306] 441[307] 459,914[319] 32,993[320] 343[321]

Name Academia.edu Advogato aNobii aSmallWorld AsianAvenue Athlinks Audimated.com Avatars United Badoo Bebo BIGADDA Biip.no BlackPlanet Blauk Blogster Bolt.com Buzznet CafeMom Cake Financial Care2 CaringBridge Cellufun Classmates.com Cloob CouchSurfing CozyCot Cross.tv Crunchyroll Cyworld DailyBooth DailyStrength Decayenne delicious deviantART Disaboom Dol2day DontStayIn Draugiem.lv douban DXY.cn Elftown Epernicus

Description/Focus
Social networking site for academics/researchers Free and open source software developers Books

Europeanjet setand social elite world-wide A social network for theAsian Americancommunity
Running, Swimming Independent music Online games General, Meet new people, Popular in Europe and Latin America General Indian Social Networking Site Norwegian community African-Americans Anyone who wants to tell something about a stranger or acquaintance.

Bloggingcommunity
General Music and pop-culture Mothers Investing

Greenliving and social activism Not for profit providing free websites that connect family and friends during Mobile social game network, Number 8 US mobile website[38]
School, college, work and the military General. Popular in Iran Worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit. East Asian and Southeast Asian women Faith Based social network for Christian believers from around the world Anime and forums. General. Popular in South Korea. Photo-blogging site where users upload a photo every day Medical & emotional support community - Physical health, Mental health, Support groups European and American social elite Social bookmarking allowing users to locate and save websites that match their own interests Art community People with disabilities (Amputee, cerebral palsy, MS, and other disabilities) Politic community, Social network, Internet radio (German-speaking countries) Clubbing (primarily UK) General (primarily LV, LT, HU)

Chinese Web 2.0 website providing user review and recommendation services for movies, books, and music. It is also Chinese online community for physicians, health care professionals, pharmacies and facilities Community and wiki around Fantasy and sci-fi.

Forresearch scientists

Eons.com Experience Project Exploroo Facebook Faceparty Faces.com Fetlife FilmAffinity FledgeWing Flixster Flickr Focus.com Folkdirect Fotki Fotolog Foursquare Friends Reunited Friendster Frhstckstreff Fubar Gaia Online GamerDNA Gather.com Gays.com Geni.com Gogoyoko Goodreads Goodwizz Google+ Google Buzz GovLoop Grono.net Habbo hi5 Hospitality Club Hotlist HR.com Hub Culture Hyves Ibibo Identi.ca Indaba Music IRC-Galleria

Forbaby boomers
Life experiences Travel Social Networking. General. General. Popular UK. Adult Social Network, Mainly UK & USA People who are into BDSM Movies and TV Series Entrepreneural community targeted towards worldwide university students Movies Photo sharing, commenting, photography related networking, worldwide Business to Business, worldwide General

Photo sharing, video hosting, photo contests, journals, forums, flexible privacy protection, friend's feed, audio commen Photoblogging. Popular in South America and Spain Location based mobile social network UK based. School, college, work, sport and streets General. Popular in Southeast Asia. No longer popular in the western world General dating, an "online bar" for 18 and older

Animeand games. Popular in USA, Canada and Europe. Moderately popular

Computer and video games Article, picture, and video sharing, as well as group discussions Social network for LGBT community, Guide for LGBT bars, restaurants, clubs, shopping Families, genealogy Fair play in Music - Social networking site for musicians and music lovers Library cataloging, book lovers Social network with matchmaking and personality games to find new contacts. Global, based in France. General General for people in and around government

Poland
General for teens. Over 31 communities worldwide. Chat Room and user profiles.

General. Popular in India, Mongolia, Thailand, Romania, Jamaica, Central Africa, Portugal and Latin America. Not very Hospitality Geo-Social Aggregator rooted in the concept of knowing where your friends are, were, and will be. Social networking site for Human Resources professionals Global influencers focused on worth creation

General, Most popular inthe Netherlands. Talent based social networking site that allows to promote one's self and als
Twitter-like service popular with hackers and software freedom advocates. Online collaboration for musicians, remix contests, and networking. Finland

italki.com InterNations Itsmy iWiW Jaiku kaioo Kaixin001 Kiwibox Lafango LaiBhaari Last.fm LibraryThing Lifeknot LinkedIn LinkExpats Listography LiveJournal Livemocha LunarStorm Makeoutclub MEETin Meetup.com Meettheboss Mixi mobikade MocoSpace MOG MouthShut.com Mubi (website) Multiply Muxlim MyAnimeList MyHeritage MyLife My Opera Myspace myYearbook Nasza-klasa.pl Netlog Nettby Nexopia NGO Post Ning

Language learning social network. 100+ languages. International community Mobile community worldwide, blogging, friends, personal TV-shows

Hungary
General. Microblogging. Owned by Google General, nonprofit General. In Simplified Chinese; caters for mainland China users General. For the users, by the users, a social network that is more than a community. Talent-Focused media sharing site Marathi social networking Music Book lovers Shared interests, hobbies Business and professional networking Social networking website for expatriates. 100+ countries. Lists. Autobiography Blogging. Popular in Russia and among the Russian-speaking diaspora abroad.

Online language learning - dynamic online courses in 35 languages - world's largest community of native language spe Sweden General General General. Used to plan offline meetings for people interested in various activities Business and Finance community, worldwide.

Japan
mobile community, UK only mobile community, worldwide Music Social Network, social media, consumer reviews Auteur cinema

"Real world" relationships. Popular in primarily inAsia.

Muslim portal site Anime themed social community family-oriented social network service

Locating friends and family, keeping in touch (formerlyReunion.com)

Blogging, mobile blogging, photo sharing, connecting with friends, Opera Link and Opera Unite. Global General General, Charity School, college and friends. Popular in Poland

General. Popular in Europe, Turkey, the Arab World and Canada's Qubec pr
Norwegian Community Canada Non-Profit news sharing and networking, mainly in India Users create their own social websites and social networks

Odnoklassniki OneClimate OneWorldTV Open Diary Orkut OUTeverywhere Passportstamp PatientsLikeMe Partyflock Pingsta Plaxo Playahead PureVolume Playlist.com Plurk Present.ly Qapacity Quechup Qzone Raptr Ravelry Renren ResearchGate ReverbNation.com Ryze ScienceStage Scispace.net ShareTheMusic Shelfari Skyrock Social_Life_(website) SocialVibe Sonico.com Stickam StudiVZ StumbleUpon Tagged TalentTrove Talkbiznow Taltopia Taringa! TeachStreet TermWiki

Connect with old classmates. Popular in Russia and former Soviet republics

Not for Profit Social networking andClimate Change Not for ProfitVideo sharing and social networking aimed at people intereste
First online blogging community, founded in 1998 General. Owned by Google Inc. Popular in India and Brazil.[222] Gay/LGBTQ Community Travel Online community for patients with life-changing illnesses to find other patients like them, share their data with others,

Dutch virtual community for people interested in house music and other electronic dance music. Since 2001, Partyflock Collaborative platform for the world's Internetwork Experts Aggregator Swedish, Danish teenagers Connecting indie music bands and listeners, through music sharing and social networking General, Music

Micro-blogging, RSS, updates. Very popular inTaiwan Enterprise social networkingand micro-blogging
A a business-oriented social networking site and a business directory General, friendship, dating General. In Simplified Chinese; caters for mainland China users Video games Knitting and crochet Significant site in China. Was known as (Xiaonei) until August 2009. Social network for scientific researchers Social network for musician and bands Business Science-oriented multimedia platform and network for scientists Collaborative network site for scientists Music Community. Sharing and listening to music for free and legally Books Social Network in French-speaking world

Brazilianjet setand social elite world-wide

Social Network for Charity General. Popular in Latin America and Spanish and Portuguese speaking regions. Live video streaming and chat. University students, mostly in the German-speaking countries. School students and those out of education sign up via Stumble through websites that match your selected interests

General. Subject to quite somecontroversy about its e-mail marketing and p

Online Talent Network Business networking Online artistic community General Education / Learning / Teaching - More than 400 subjects Learning / Languages / Translation - 1.2m terms in more than 1300 subjects

TravBuddy.com Travellerspoint tribe.net Trombi.com Tuenti Tumblr Twitter Vkontakte Vampirefreaks.com Viadeo Virb Vox Wakoopa Wattpad Wasabi WAYN WebBiographies WeeWorld WeOurFamily Wer-kennt-wen weRead Windows Live Spaces WiserEarth WriteAPrisoner.com Xanga XING Xt3 Yammer Yelp, Inc. Zoo.gr Zooppa

Travel Travel General French subsidiary of Classmates.com

Spanish-baseduniversity and High School social network. Very Popular in Sp

General. Micro-blogging, RSS General. Micro-blogging, RSS, updates Social Network for Russian-speaking world including former Soviet republics. Biggest site in Russia Gothic and industrial subculture

Global Social Networking and Campus Networking available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portugu Social network that focuses heavily on artists, including musicians and photographers Blogging For computer fans that want to discover new software and games For readers and authors to interact & e-book sharing General. UK-based. Travel and lifestyle Genealogy and biography Teenagers - 10 to 17 General with emphasis on privacy and security General Books Blogging (formerly MSN Spaces)

Online community space for the social justice and environmental movement
Site networking inmates, friends, family Blogs and "metro" areas Business (primarily Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and China) Catholic social networking, created after World Youth Day 2008 Social networking for office colleagues Local Business Review and Talk Greek Web Meeting point Online Community for Creative Talent (host of brand sponsored advertising contests)

Date launched
Sep-08 1999 2006 Mar-04 1997 2001 2010 Mar-08 2006 Jul-05 Aug-07 1-Jun-05 1-Sep-99 2010 24-Nov-05 1996 2005 Dec-06 17-Sep-07 1998

Registeredusers

211,000 13,575 550,000 139,458

86,000,000 117,000,000 3,000,000 430,000 20,000,000 85,579 10,000,000 1,250,000

9,961,947 family and friends during a serious health event, care and recovery.[34] 9,500,000 3,000,000 2007 50,000,000 1995 1,560,459 150,000 450,000 24,000,000
13-Feb-09 4-Nov-07 2001 Sep-03 7-Aug-00

mmunities they visit. 2001 2008

8,822,921 9,040,962 40,200 2,600,466 46,850,000 2,000,000 185,000

2005

2000[68]

Feb-04

2011

2002

640,000,000 200,000 700,000 500,000 250,000 63,000,000 32,000,000 850,000 80,000

1,632,565

2007 Feb-04 2005 Jun-10 Oct-98

2002 Jul-01 Oct-07

ope. Moderately popular around Asia.

21-Sep-06

16-May-08 16-Jan-07

20,000,000 2,000,000 19,000,000 90,000,000 14,800 1,200,000 23,523,663 310,000 465,000 100,000 15,000,000

Dec-06 Oct-10 60,000

June 28,2011

2,000,000
200,000,000 2003

80,000,000 328,629 80,000 , were, and will be. 194,000 1999 20,000 Nov-02 10,097,000 romote one's self and also discover new talent. Most popular inIndia. 3,500,000 395,695 350,000 505,000

500,000 2,500,000 4,000,000

Feb-06 Nov-07

30,000 2,400,000
100,000

1999

2010 2002

30,000,000 400,000 100,000,000

May-03

15-Apr-99

rgest community of native language speakers.

17,564,977 5,000,000 1,200,000

9-Aug-99

25-Oct-00

24,323,160 3,000,000

200,000

2006

erlyReunion.com)
Aug-03

nd Opera Unite. Global

10,000,000 50,000 160,000 30,000,000 51,000,000 7,300,000

100,000,000

20,000,000 11,000,000 and Canada's Qubec province. Formerly known as Facebox and Redbox.[206] 70,000,000
14-Sep-06

1,400,000 15,000

45,000,000

aimed at people interested in social issues, development, environment, etc. 5,000,000 1998 100,000,000 22-Jan-04

2006 10th November 2001

109,587
321,125

15,000,000
2003

2007 480,000,000

743,930 160,000,000 400,000 500,000 500,000

11-Oct-06

2008

22,000,000 550,000 435,000

17,000,000

2,000,000 17,000,000 and those out of education sign up via its partner sites schlerVZ and meinVZ. 10,600,000 ts e-mail marketing and privacy policy 100,000,000

350,000
May-10

2005 2002

1,588,000 310,000 4,400,000 4,500,000

175,000,000

etwork. Very Popular in Spain

2007 15-Jul-06 Sep-06 1999 German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese 2007

110,578,500 1,931,049 35,000,000

100,000

May-03

10,000,000 30,000,000

Jun-07

environmental movement[310]
Sep-00 Unknown

4,000,000 120,000,000 45,000 66,000 27,000,000 8,000,000

2004

890,000 60,000

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Open to people 18 and older[36]

Open to people 14 and older

Open to people 18 and older[42]

Open Open Open Open Open Open Open Open

Invite-only
Open Open Open Open Open Invitation only Open Open Open, approval needed Open

Open to people 13 and older Open Open Open to people 13 and older Invitation only to people 18 and older Open to people 18 and older worldwide Open to people "of [legal] age to see adult content" Open Open to university students Open to people 13 and older

Open to people 13 and older (Yahoo!Login)

Open to people 13 and older Open to people 16 and older Open Open Open Open to people 13 and older Open to people 16 and older. Open Open to people 18+ Open to people 13 and older Open Open Open, Global Open Invite only while in beta Open Open Open Open

Open Open to people 13 and older Open to people 13 and older. Open Open Open

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Open, Global

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Open to the General Public Open to people 13 and older Open, Global Open Open Open to people 13 and older Open to people 18 and older Open to people 18 and older Open, Global Open

Open (OpenID)
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Open to people 13 and older[211]

Open Open to people 13 and older

Open Open to People of all ages and locations Open Open to people 13 and older

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Open Open Open to people 13 years and up Open to people 18 years and up Invite-only, only Internet Experts Open Closed Open Open to people over 13 Open Open Open to people 16 and older Open to those over 16 Open to the general public Open Open Open Open Open to people 16 and older Open Open By invitation, but can request an invitation Open Open Open

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Invite-only Open Open Open Open to users 13 and over Open Open Open Open Open Open Open to people 18 and older Open Open to ages 13 and older. Open, subscription-based General Open Open Open to people 16 and older Open to people 18 years and older Open Open Open Must have company email Open Open

Open to people 14 and older[325]

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9,294[3] 139,873[5] 11,992[6] 5,978[8] 75,362[10] 486,598[11] 9,641,523[12] 128[14] 2,148[16] 11,684[18] 65,176[20] 2,350[22] 937,454[23] 23,485[25] 111,069[26] 1,132[28] 4,333[30] 481,922[31] 2,594[33] 4,198[37] 46,773[40] 2,961[43] 914[44] 3,711[46] 3,711[48] 30,741[50] 2,328[51] 1,027[53] 5,460[54] 22,054[55] 154,733[56] 239[58] 126[60] 112,712[61] 554,616[63] 19,022[64] 2,272[65] 139[67] 14,559[70] 17,681[72] 293,955[73]

27,320[74] 3,452[75] 209,868[76] 2[78] 28,760[80] 97,835[82] 5,513[84] 3,916[86] 1,793,990[87] 1,018[89] 33[91] 11,495[93] 19,932[95] 5,367[96] 1,194[98] 4,539[100] 10,231[102] 979[104] 1,253,155[105] 9,476[107] 1,071[109] 22,887[111] 3,974[113] 74,664[115] 5,815[117] 119,272[118] 2,543[119] 214,214[122] NA (Alexa only records data forSecond-level domains) NA (Alexa only records data forsecond-level domains) 2,958[123] 6,545[127] 265[129] 38,258[131] 28,241[133] 60,048[135] 515,308[137] 225[139] 695[141] 3,822[142] 55,062[144] 3,302[146]

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11,789[279] 11,486[281] 5,706[282] 7,283[284] 291[285] 245[286] 10[289] 37[291] 7,577[293] 710[295] 22,474[296] 1,319[297] 9,420[298] 11,008[299] 95,188[300] 2,974[302] 734,214[303] 8,729[305] 685,337[306] 441[307] 80,233[308] NA (Alexa only records data forsecond-level domains) 77,143[312] 252,188[314] 768[316] 269[318] 459,914[319] 32,993[320] 343[321] 8,057[323] 88,555[326]

Name

Activeuseraccounts

Date Jul-11 Nov-10 Mar-11 May-11 Jun-09 Feb-11 Jan-11

Facebook Tencent QQ Qzone Netease Windows Live Messenger Habbo Twitter Gmail Skype Sina Weibo Vkontakte Badoo Orkut Bebo LinkedIn

750 million[1]
636 million
[2][3]

480 million[4] 360 million[5] 330+ million[6] 203 million[7]

200 million[8][9] 193.3 million

November 2010[10]
Mar-10 May-11 Feb-11 Jul-11 Aug-10 Jul-10 Mar-11

145 million[11] 140+ million[12] 135+ million[13] 121+ million[14]

120+ million
[15][16][17]

117 million[18] 100+ million[19]