There is more to the social world than just Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr and MySpace .
There’s LiveJournal Blogging: popular in Russia; Orkut: – networking site in India and Brazil; Renren: – social networking site in China; Odnoklassniki – a social network service popular in Moscow, Russia and other former Soviet Republics; Taringa! – a virtual community from Argentina; Mixi a social networking in Japan.
As well as. . .deviantART: -art community; Kaixin001:– caters to those in mainland China; Badoo: – popular in Europe and Latin America; Ning: -users create their own social websites and social networks; Douban: Chinese website providing user review and recommendation services for movies, books, and music.; Netlog: popular in Europe, Turkey, the Arab World and Canada’s Québec province; Hi5: popular in India, Mongolia, Thailand, Romania, Jamaica, Central Africa, Portugal and Latin America; Tagged: -is all about “social discovery”; Friendster: popular in Southeast Asia; StumbleUpon: is a discovery engine that finds and recommends web content to its users; Hyves: is a popular social networking site in the Netherlands; SkyRock: social network in the French-speaking world; Fotolog: photoblogging. Popular in South America and Spain; Tumblr: is a micro-blogging platform; Multiply: – popular in primarily in Asia; Delicious: a social bookmarking site; vkontakte: social network for Russian-speaking world; Yelp, Inc: local business review; Xing: -Business (primarily Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and China); Last.fm Music.
As well as . . .Tuenti: referred to as the Spanish Facebook; StudiVZ: university students in German-speaking countries.
Meetup: -used to plan offline meetings; Wer-kennt-wen: (English: Who-knows-whom) is a popular German social networking site; Cloob: a Persian-language social networking website, mainly popular in Iran; iWiW: ( International Who is Who), Hungarian social networking web service; Ibibo: talent based social networking site, most popular in India; Viadeo: Global social networking in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese; MyLife: locating friends and family, keeping in touch; Sonico: popular in Latin America and Spanish and Portuguese speaking regions; myYearbook: and Classmates: School, college, work and the military; Gaia Online: Anime and games. Popular in USA, Canada and Europe; Zorpia: a social network that has a large international community; Xanga: is a website that hosts weblogs, photoblogs, and social networking profiles; myHeritage: is a genealogy website; BlackPlanet: African-Americans; DailyBooth: Photo-blogging site where users upload a photo every day and Bigadda: an Indian social networking site.
