List of social networks

List of social networks

Below are the list of social networking. These are given alphabetically with there description:

Name
Description/Focus
43 Things
Goal setting and achievement
Academia.edu
Social networking site for academics/researchers
Advogato
Free and open source software developers
aNobii
Books
AsianAvenue
A social network for the Asian American community
aSmallWorld
European jet set and social elite world-wide
Athlinks
Running, Swimming
Audimated.com
Independent music
Bebo
General
BIGADDA
Indian Social Networking Site
Biip.no
Norwegian community
BlackPlanet
Black Americans
Blauk
Anyone who wants to tell something about a stranger or acquaintance.
Blogster
Blogging community
Bolt.com
General
Busuu
Language learning community (headquartered in Madrid, Spain)
Buzznet
Music and pop-culture
CafeMom
Mothers
Care2
Green living and social activism
CaringBridge
Not for profit providing free websites that connect family and friends during a serious health event, care and recovery.
Classmates.com
School, college, work and the military
Cloob
General. Popular in Iran
CouchSurfing
Worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the communities they visit.
CozyCot
East Asian and Southeast Asian women
Cross.tv
Faith Based social network for Christian believers from around the world
Crunchyroll
Anime and forums.
Cyworld
General. Popular in South Korea.
DailyBooth
Photo-blogging site where users upload a photo every day
DailyStrength
Medical & emotional support community - Physical health, Mental health, Support groups
delicious
Social bookmarking allowing users to locate and save websites that match their own interests
deviantART
Art community
Diaspora*
Decentralized, privacy aware, general (open source)
Disaboom
People with disabilities (Amputee, cerebral palsy, MS, and other disabilities)
Dol2day
Politic community, Social network, Internet radio (German-speaking countries)
DontStayIn
Clubbing (primarily UK)
Draugiem.lv
General (primarily LV, LT, HU)
douban
Chinese Web 2.0 website providing user review and recommendation services for movies, books, and music.
DXY.cn
Chinese online community for physicians, health care professionals, pharmacies and facilities
Elftown
Community and wiki around Fantasy and sci-fi.
Elixio
Business executives jet set and global elite.
English, baby!
Students and teachers of English as a second language
Epernicus
For research scientists
Eons.com
For baby boomers and mature internet users age 40 and beyond.
eToro
Social Investing, Finance
Experience Project
Life experiences
Exploroo
Travel Social Networking.
Facebook
General: Photos, Videos, Blogs, Apps.
Faceparty
General. Popular UK.
Faces.com
Adult Social Network, Mainly UK & USA
Fetlife
People who are into BDSM
FilmAffinity
Movies and TV Series
Filmow
Movies and TV Series
FledgeWing
Entrepreneural community targeted towards worldwide university students
Flixster
Movies
Flickr
Photo sharing, commenting, photography related networking, worldwide
Focus.com
Business to Business, worldwide
Fotki
Photo sharing, video hosting, photo contests, journals, forums, flexible privacy protection, friend's feed, audio comments and unlimited custom design integration.
Fotolog
Photoblogging. Popular in South America and Spain
Foursquare
Location based mobile social network
Friendica
Distributed, federated, privacy aware, open source, general
Friends Reunited
UK based. School, college, work, sport and streets
Friendster
General. Popular in Southeast Asia. No longer popular in the western world
Frühstückstreff
General
Fubar
dating, an "online bar" for 18 and older
Fuelmyblog
Blogging community
FullCircle
Geosocial networking and location-based services portal for mobile devices
Gaia Online
Anime and games. Popular in USA, Canada and Europe. Moderately popular around Asia.
GamerDNA
Computer and video games
Gapyear.com
Travel social network
Gather.com
Article, picture, and video sharing, as well as group discussions
Gays.com
Social network for LGBT community, Guide for LGBT bars, restaurants, clubs, shopping
Geni.com
Families, genealogy
GetGlue
Social network for entertainment
Gogoyoko
Fair play in Music - Social networking site for musicians and music lovers
Goodreads
Library cataloging, book lovers
Goodwizz
Social network with matchmaking and personality games to find new contacts. Global, based in France.
Google+
General
GovLoop
For people in and around government
Grono.net
Poland
Habbo
General for teens. Over 31 communities worldwide. Chat room and user profiles.
hi5
General. Popular in Nepal, Mongolia, Thailand, Romania, Jamaica, Central Africa, Portugal and Latin America. Not very popular in the USA.
Hospitality Club
Hospitality
Hotlist
Geo-Social Aggregator rooted in the concept of knowing where users' friends are, were, and will be.
HR.com
Social networking site for Human Resources professionals
Hub Culture
Global influencers focused on worth creation
Hyves
General, mostly popular in the Netherlands.
Ibibo
Talent based social networking site that allows to promote one's self and also discover new talent. Most popular in India.
Identi.ca
Twitter-like service popular with hackers and software freedom advocates.
Indaba Music
Online collaboration for musicians, remix contests, and networking.
IRC-Galleria
Finland
italki.com
Language learning social network. 100+ languages.
Itsmy
Mobile community worldwide, blogging, friends, personal TV-shows
iWiW
Hungary
Jaiku
General. Microblogging. Owned by Google
Jiepang
Location based mobile social network. In Chinese language
Kaixin001
General. In Simplified Chinese; caters for mainland China users
Kiwibox
General.
Lafango
Talent-Focused media sharing site
LAGbook
African-based Social Networking Site. Popular in Germany, Denmark, France, China, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Philippines, Canada, India, Romania, Mexico, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Japan, Chile, Spain, South Africa, Israel, Australia and especially in Nigeria.
LaiBhaari
Marathi social networking
Last.fm
Music
LibraryThing
Book lovers
Lifeknot
Shared interests, hobbies
LinkedIn
Business and professional networking
LinkExpats
Social networking website for expatriates. 100+ countries.
Listography
Lists. Autobiography
LiveJournal
Blogging. Popular in Russia and among the Russian-speaking diaspora abroad.
Livemocha
Online language learning
Makeoutclub
General
MEETin
General
Meetup (website)
General. Used to plan offline meetings for people interested in various activities
Meettheboss
Business and Finance community, worldwide.
MillatFacebook
General, Created in Response to Facebook
mixi
Japan
MocoSpace
mobile community, worldwide
MOG
Music
MouthShut.com
Social Network, social media, consumer reviews
Mubi
Auteur cinema
MyHeritage
family-oriented social network service
MyLife
Locating friends and family, keeping in touch (formerly Reunion.com)
My Opera
Blogging, mobile blogging, photo sharing, connecting with friends, Opera Link and Opera Unite. Global
Myspace
General
Nasza-klasa.pl
School, college and friends. Popular in Poland
Netlog
General. Popular in Europe, Turkey, the Arab World and Canada's Québec province. Formerly known as Facebox and Redbox.
Nexopia
Canada
NGO Post
Non-Profit news sharing and networking, mainly in India
Ning
Users create their own social websites and social networks
Odnoklassniki
Connect with old classmates. Popular in Russia and former Soviet republics
Open Diary
First online blogging community, founded in 1998
Orkut
General. Owned by Google Inc. Popular in India and Brazil.
OUTeverywhere
Gay/LGBTQ Community
PatientsLikeMe
Online community for patients with life-changing illnesses to find other patients like them, share their data with others, and learn more about their condition to improve their outcome.
Partyflock
Dutch virtual community for people interested in house music and other electronic dance music
Pingsta
Collaborative platform for the world's Internetwork Experts
Pinterest
Online pinboard for organizing and sharing things you love
Plaxo
Aggregator
Playfire
Computer and video games
Playlist.com
General, Music
Plurk
Micro-blogging, RSS, updates. Very popular in Taiwan
Qapacity
A a business-oriented social networking site and a business directory
Quechup
General, friendship, dating
Qzone
General. In Simplified Chinese; caters for mainland China users
Raptr
Video games
Ravelry
Knitting and crochet
Renren
Significant site in China. Was known as ?? (Xiaonei) until August 2009.
ReverbNation.com
Social network for musician and bands
Ryze
Business
ScienceStage
Science-oriented multimedia platform and network for scientists
ShareTheMusic
Music Community. Sharing and listening to music for free and legally
Shelfari
Books
Sina Weibo
Social microblogging site in Mainland China.
Skoob
Collaborative social network for Brazilian readers
Skyrock
Social Network in French-speaking world
SocialVibe
Social Network for Charity
Sonico.com
General. Popular in Latin America and Spanish and Portuguese speaking regions.
SoundCloud
Repository of original music pieces and networking.
Spaces
Russian Social Network targeted to mobile phone users
Stickam
Live video streaming and chat.
StudiVZ
University students, mostly in the German-speaking countries. School students and those out of education sign up via its partner sites schülerVZ and meinVZ.
Students Circle Network
A Social Network connecting students, teachers and institutions to course resources, study groups and learning spaces.
StumbleUpon
Stumble through websites that match users' selected interests
Tagged
General.
Talkbiznow
Business networking
Taltopia
Online artistic community
Taringa!
General (primarily Argentina)
TeachStreet
Education / Learning / Teaching - More than 400 subjects
TermWiki
Learning / Languages / Translation - 1.2m terms in more than 1300 subjects
The Sphere
A Private Online Social Luxury Network with Exclusive Personalized Services
TravBuddy.com
Travel
Travellerspoint
Travel
tribe.net
General
Trombi.com
French subsidiary of Classmates.com
Tuenti
Spanish-based university and High School social network.
Twitter
General. Micro-blogging, RSS, updates
Tylted
Mobile social game network
Vkontakte
General, including music upload, listening and search. Popular in Russia and former Soviet republics.
Vampirefreaks.com
Gothic and industrial subculture
Viadeo
Global Social Networking and Campus Networking available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
Virb
Social network that focuses heavily on artists, including musicians and photographers
Vox
Blogging
Wattpad
For readers and authors to interact & e-book sharing
WAYN
Travel and lifestyle
WeeWorld
Teenagers - 10 to 17
Wellwer
Community without borders, where sharing is everything.
WeOurFamily
General with emphasis on privacy and security
Wepolls.com
Social polling network
Wer-kennt-wen
General
weRead
Books
Wiser.org
Online community space for the social justice and environmental movement
Wooxie
Blogging and micro-blogging
WriteAPrisoner.com
Site networking inmates, friends, family
Xanga
Blogs and "metro" areas
XING
Business (primarily Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland))
Xt3
Catholic social networking, created for World Youth Day 2008
Yammer
Social networking for office colleagues
Yelp, Inc.
Local Business Review and Talk
Zoo.gr
Greek Web Meeting point
Zooppa
Online Community for Creative Talent (host of brand sponsored advertising contests)