Global

Date
Description/F Registered Registr Alexa[1]
Name launch
ocus users ation Page
ed
ranking
Social
networking
Academia.ed
site for 211,000[2] Open 18,100[3]
u
academics/res
earchers
Free and open
source
Advogato 13,575[4] Open 128,340[5]
software
developers
aNobii Books Open 10,734[6]
European jet
set and social Invite-
aSmallWorld 550,000[7] 8,583[8]
elite world- only
wide
A social
network for
AsianAvenue the Asian 1997 Open
American
community
Running,
Athlinks 139,458[9] Open 73,295[10]
Swimming
Audimated.c Independent
2010 Open 25,648[11]
om music
Avatars March 294,575[12
Online games Open ]
United 2008
General, Meet
Open to
new people,
people
Badoo Popular in 86,000,000[13] 135[14]
18 and
Europe and
older
LatAm
 Open to
July people
Bebo General 117,000,000[15] 905[16]
2005 13 and
older
Open to
Indian Social
people
Bigadda Networking 3,000,000[17] 3,176[18]
16 and
Site
older
Open to
people
18 and
Organization
older
and
(13-18
BigTent communicatio 34,047[19]
parental
n portal for
permissi
groups
on
encoura
ged)
Requires
Norwegi
Norwegian June 1,
Biip.no 430,000[20] an 65,176[21]
community 2005
phone
number

Septe
African-
BlackPlanet mber 20,000,000[22] Open 2,350[23]
Americans
1,
1999
Anyone who
wants to tell Open to
something people 937,454[24
Blauk 2010
about a 10 and ]
stranger or older.
acquaintance.
 Blogging
Blogster 85,579[25] Open 23,485[26]
community
111,069[27
Bolt.com General 1996 Open ]

Music and
Buzznet 2005 10,000,000[28] Open 736[29]
pop-culture
Open to
moms
CafeMom Mothers 1,250,000[30] and 4,333[31]
moms-
to-be
Cake 481,922[32
Investing Open ]
Financial
Green living
Care2 and social 1998 9,961,947[33] Open 2,594[34]
activism
Not for profit
providing free
websites that
Open to
connect family
CaringBridg people
and friends 9,500,000[36] 4,198[38]
e 18 and
during a
older[37]
serious health
event, care and
recovery.[35]
Mobile social
Open to
game network,
people
Cellufun Number 8 US 2007 3,000,000[40] 46,773[41]
14 and
mobile
older
website[39]
School, Open to
Classmates.c college, work people
1995 50,000,000[42] 799[44]
om and the 18 and
military older[43]
 General.
Cloob Open 712[45]
Popular in Iran
Worldwide
network for
making
connections
CouchSurfin
between 1,560,459[46] Open 3,711[47]
g
travelers and
the local
communities
they visit.
East Asian and
CozyCot Southeast 2001 150,000[48] Open 38,817[49]
Asian women
Anime and
Crunchyroll Open 2,328[50]
forums.
General.
Cyworld Popular in 24,000,000[51] Open 923[52]
South Korea.
Photo-
blogging site
Februa
DailyBooth where users Open 5,460[53]
ry 13,
upload a photo
2009
every day
Medical &
emotional
support
community - Nove
DailyStrengt
Physical mber Open 22,054[54]
h
health, Mental 4,
health, 2007
Support
groups
Decayenne European and 2001 Invite- 154,733[55
 American ]
only
social elite
Social
bookmarking
allowing users
to locate and Septe
delicious 8,822,921[56] Open 255[57]
save websites mber
that match 2003
their own
interests
August
Art
deviantART 7, 9,040,962[58] Open 97[59]
community
2000
People with
disabilities
(Amputee, 112,712[60
Disaboom Open ]
cerebral palsy,
MS, and other
disabilities)
Politic
community,
Social
network, 554,616[62
Dol2day 40,200[61] Open ]
Internet radio
(German-
speaking
countries)
Clubbing
DontStayIn (primarily Open 19,022[63]
UK)
General
Invitatio
Draugiem.lv (primarily LV, 2,600,466[25] 2,272[64]
n only
LT, HU)
douban Chinese Web 2005 46,850,000[65] Open 127[66]
 2.0 website
providing user
review and
recommendati
on services for
movies, books,
and music. It
is also the
largest online
Chinese
language
book, movie
and music
database and
one of the
largest online
communities
in China.
Community
and wiki Open,
[67]
Elftown around 185,000 approval 17,681[68]
Fantasy and needed
sci-fi.
For research 293,955[69
Epernicus Open ]
scientists
Open to
For baby people
Eons.com 27,320[70]
boomers 13 and
older
Experience Life
Open 3,452[71]
Project experiences
Travel Social 209,868[72
Exploroo Open ]
Networking.
Facebook General. 500,000,001[73] Open to 2[74]
 Februa people
ry 13 and
2004 older
Invitatio
n only to
General.
Faceparty 200,000[75] people 28,760[76]
Popular UK.
18 and
older
Open to
people 120,665[77
Faces.com British teens
13 and ]
older
Open to
people
People who "of
Fetlife are into 500,000[78] [legal] 5,513[79]
BDSM age to
see adult
content"
Movies and
FilmAffinity 2002 250,000[80] Open 3,916[81]
TV Series
Anonymous
UK Student 322,113[82
FitFinder Open ]
Microblogging
Website
Entrepreneural
community
Open to
targeted
universit 1,793,990
FledgeWing towards [83]
y
worldwide
students
university
students
Flixster Movies 2007 63,000,000[84] Open to 1,018[85]
people
 13 and
older
Photo sharing, Open to
commenting, people
photography Februa 13 and 33[87]
Flickr 32,000,000[86]
related ry older -
networking, 2004 (Yahoo!
worldwide Login)
Open to
Business to
people
Focus.com Business, 2005 850,000[88] 11,495[89]
13 and
worldwide
older
Open to
June people
Folkdirect General 80,000[90] 19,932[91]
2010 16 and
older
Photo sharing,
video hosting,
photo contests, 5,367[92]
Fotki Octobe 1,613,268 Open
journals, -
r 1998
forums and
friend's feed.
Photoblogging
. Popular in
Fotolog 20,000,000[93] Open 227[94]
South America
and Spain
Location
Foursquare based mobile 2,000,000[95] Open 4,539[96]
social network
UK based.
Open to
School,
Friends people
college, work, 19,000,000[97] 10,231[98]
Reunited 13 and
sport and
older
streets
 General. Open to
Popular in people
Southeast 16 and
Friendster Asia. No 2002 90,000,000[99] older. 146[100]
longer popular No
in the western children
world allowed
Frühstückstr July 14,800[citation 1,253,155
General Open
eff 2001 needed] [101]

dating, an
Open to
"online bar"
Fubar Octobe 1,200,000[102] people 9,476[103]
for 18 and
r 2007 18+
older
Anime and
games.
Popular in Open to
USA, Canada people
Gaia Online 23,523,663[104] 1,071[105]
and Europe. 13 and
Moderately older
popular
around Asia.

Septe
Computer and
GamerDNA mber 310,000[106] Open 22,887[107]
video games
21,
2006
Article,
picture, and
video sharing,
Gather.com 465,000[108] Open 3,974[109]
as well as
group
discussions
Gays.com Social network May 100,000[110] Open. 74,664[111]
for LGBT 16, Global
 community,
Guide for
LGBT bars,
2008
restaurants,
clubs,
shopping

Families, Januar
Geni.com 15,000,000[112] Open 5,815[113]
genealogy y 16,
2007
Fair play in
Music - Social Invite
networking only 119,272[11
Gogoyoko
site for while in 4]
musicians and beta
music lovers
Library
Decem
Goodreads cataloging, Open 2,543[115]
ber
book lovers
2006
NA
(Alexa
only
records
Google Buzz General Open
data for
second-
level
domains)
Open to
Gossipreport Anonymous people 1,245,494
.com gossip 16 and [116]
older
GovLoop for people in
and around
 government
2,000,000[citation
Grono.net Poland needed] Open 2,958[117]
General for
teens. Over 31
Open to
communities [118]
162,000,000 people
Habbo worldwide. [119][120] 6,545[121]
13 and
Chat Room
older
and user
profiles.
General.
Popular in
India,
Mongolia, Open to
Thailand, people
Romania, 13 and
[122]
hi5 Jamaica, 2003 80,000,000 older. 51[123]
Central Africa, No
Portugal and children
Latin allowed
America. Not
very popular
in the USA.
Hospitality
Hospitality 328,629[124] Open 38,258[125]
Club
Geo-Social
Aggregator
rooted in the
concept of
Hotlist knowing 80,000[126] Open 28,241[127]
where your
friends are,
were, and will
be.
 Social
networking
HR.com site for Human 1999 194,000[128] Open 60,048[129]
Resources
professionals
Global
influencers Nove Invite-
Hub Culture 20,000[130] 515,308[13
focused on mber only 1]
worth creation 2002
General, Most
Hyves popular in the 10,097,000[132] Open 225[133]
Netherlands.
Talent based
social
networking
site that allows
to promote
Ibibo 3,500,000[134] Open 695[135]
one's self and
also discover
new talent.
Most popular
in India.
Online
collaboration
Open
Indaba for musicians, [136]
350,000 and 55,062[137]
Music remix
Global
contests, and
networking.
Open to
Finnish
speaking
IRC-Galleria Finland 505,000[138] 3,302[139]
people
12 and
older
 Language
learning social Open.
italki.com 500,000[140] 29,939[141]
network. 100+ Global.
languages.
International Invite-
InterNations 25,604[142]
community only
Mobile
community
worldwide,
[143] 206,437[14
Itsmy blogging, 2,500,000 4]
friends,
personal TV-
shows
Invite-
iWiW Hungary 4,000,000[145] 532[146]
only
General. Open to
Microblogging Februa people
Jaiku 15,661[147]
. Owned by ry 13 and
Google 2006 older
Open to
Network for
JammerDire the 133,510[14
unsigned Octobe 136,000[148]
ct.com General 9]
artists r 2007
Public

General, Nove 386,200[15

kaioo 30,000[150] 1]
nonprofit mber
2007
General. In
Simplified Open to
Chinese; the
Kaixin001 61[152]
caters for General
mainland Public
China users
Kiwibox General. For 1999 2,400,000[153] Open to 104,563[15
 the users, by
the users, a
people
social network 4]
13 and
that is more
older
than a
community.
Talent-
Open
Lafango Focused media 35,810[155]
global
sharing site
Open to
any age
Last.fm Music 2002 30,000,000[156] 310[157]
or
gender
Open to
LibraryThin people
Book lovers 400,000[158] 4,529[159]
g 13 and
older
Open to
Shared
people 602,117[16
Lifeknot interests, 0]
18 and
hobbies
older
Open to
Business and
May people
LinkedIn professional 80,000,000[161] 29[162]
2003 18 and
networking
older
Social
networking
website for Open. 1,668,484
LinkExpats
expatriates. Global. [163]
100+
countries.
Lists.
197,009[16
Listography Autobiograph Open 4]
y
 Blogging.
Popular in
Russia and
April Open
among the
LiveJournal 15, 17,564,977[165] (OpenID 81[166]
Russian-
1999 )
speaking
diaspora
abroad.
Online
language
learning -
dynamic
online courses
in 35
Livemocha 5,000,000[167] Open 4,079[168]
languages -
world’s largest
community of
native
language
speakers.
LunarStorm Sweden 1,200,000[169] Open 65,874[170]
173,717[17
MEETin General Open 1]

General. Used
to plan offline
Open to
meetings for
people
Meetup.com people 739[172]
18 and
interested in
older
various
activities
Business and
Finance 107,180[17
Meettheboss Open 3]
community,
worldwide.
 Octobe Invite-
Mixi Japan 24,323,160[174] 85[175]
r 25, only
2000
Open to
mobile
people 1,851,728
mobikade community, [176]
18 and
UK only
older
Open to
mobile
people
MocoSpace community, 3,000,000[177] 3,685[178]
14 and
worldwide
older
Open to
people
MOG Music 4,221[179]
14 and
older
Social
Network,
MouthShut.c
social media, Open 2,545[180]
om
consumer
reviews
Mubi
Auteur cinema 200,000 Open 25,648[181]
(website)
Open to
"Real world" people
relationships. 13 and
Multiply Popular in 10,000,000[182] older. 246[183]
primarily in No
Asia. children
allowed
Open to
Muslim portal people
Muxlim 2006 50,000[184] 59,099[185]
site 13 and
older
 Open to
Anime themed
MyAnimeLis people
social 160,000[186] 6,096[187]
t 13 and
community
older
Christian
MyChurch 144,295[188] Open 94,510[189]
Churches
family-
oriented social
MyHeritage 30,000,000 [190] Open 2,953[191]
network
service
Locating
friends and
family,
MyLife keeping in 51,000,000[192] Open 1,481[193]
touch
(formerly
Reunion.com)
Blogging,
NA
mobile
(Alexa
blogging,
only
photo sharing,
records
My Opera connecting 5,500,000[194] Open
data for
with friends,
second-
Opera Link
level
and Opera
domains)
Unite. Global
Open to
[1
August 100,000,000+ ages 13
Myspace General 95][196] 46[197]
2003 and
older.
[198]
myYearbook General, 20,000,000 Open to 851[199]
Charity age 13
and up
&
 Grades 9
and up
School,
college and
Nasza-
friends. 11,000,000[200] Open 110[201]
klasa.pl
Popular in
Poland
General.
Popular in
Europe,
Turkey, the
Arab World Open to
and Canada's people
Netlog 70,000,000[203] 130[204]
Québec 13 and
province. older
Formerly
known as
Facebox and
Redbox.[202]

Septe
Norwegian
Nettby mber Open 2,719[205]
Community
14,
2006
Open to
people
Nexopia Canada 1,400,000[206] 24,071[208]
13 and
older [207]
Non-Profit
news sharing
and
NGO Post 15,000[209] Open 70,134[210]
networking,
mainly in
India
 Users create
Open to
their own
people
Ning social websites 132[211]
13 and
and social
older
networks
Connect with
old
classmates.
Odnoklassni
Popular in 45,000,000[212] Open 92[213]
ki
Russia and
former Soviet
republics
Open to
Not for Profit
People
Social
of all 307,773[21
OneClimate networking
ages and 4]
and Climate
location
Change
s
Not for Profit
Video sharing
and social
networking
aimed at
OneWorldT 27,434,22
people Open
V 7[215]
interested in
social issues,
development,
environment,
etc.
First online
Open to
blogging
people
Open Diary community, 1998 5,000,000[216] 39,290[217]
13 and
founded in
older
1998
 General. Open to
Owned by people
Google Inc. Januar 18 and
Orkut 100,000,000[219] 43[220]
Popular in y 22, older,
India and 2004 (Google
[218]
Brazil. login)
OUTeveryw Gay/LGBTQ 329,887[22
Open 1]
here Community
Social
networking
site for
150,000[citation Open
PartnerUp entrepreneurs needed] 29,221[222]
and Free
and small
business
owners
Passportsta 366,598[22
Travel Open 3]
mp
Dutch virtual
community for
people
interested in
house music
and other
electronic
10th Open to
dance music.
Nove people
Partyflock Since 2001, 321,125 7,226[224]
mber 18 years
Partyflock has
2001 and up
evolved into
the biggest
online
community for
the dance
scene in the
Netherlands
 Collaborative Invite-
platform for only,
1,668,955
Pingsta the world's only [225]
Internetwork Internet
Experts Experts
Plaxo Aggregator 15,000,000[226] Open 1,533[227]
Swedish,
Playahead Danish Closed 63,081[228]
teenagers
Open to
General,
Playlist.com people
Music
over 13
Micro-
blogging,
Plurk RSS, updates. Open 1,072[229]
Very popular
in Taiwan
Enterprise
social
4,893,711
Present.ly networking Open [230]
and micro-
blogging
A a business-
oriented social Open to
networking people
Qapacity 96,847[231]
site and a 16 and
business older
directory
General, Open to
150,757[23
Quechup friendship, 2007 those 2]
dating over 16
[233]
Qzone General. In 200,000,000 Open to NA
Simplified the (Alexa
Chinese; general only
 records
caters for data for
mainland public second-
China users level
domains)
Raptr Video games Open 25,664[234]
Knitting and
Ravelry 743,930[235] Open 7,811[236]
crochet
Significant site
in China. Was
known as 校
Renren 15,000,000[237] Open 103[238]
内 (Xiaonei)
until August
2009.
Social network
ResearchGat
for scientific 400,000[239] Open 23,095[240]
e
researchers
Open to
Social network
ReverbNatio people
for musician 500,000[241] 4,422[242]
n.com 16 and
and bands
older
Ryze Business 500,000[243] Open 19,839[244]
Science-
oriented
multimedia
ScienceStage Open 26,804[245]
platform and
network for
scientists
Scispace.net Collaborative By 1,231,795
network site invitatio [246]
for scientists n, but
can
request
an
 invitatio
n
Music
Community.
ShareTheMu Sharing and 471,712[24
Open 7]
sic listening to
music for free
and legally

Octobe
Shelfari Books Open 19,681[248]
r 11,
2006
Social
Network in
Skyrock French- 22,000,000[249] Open 111[250]
speaking
world
Social
435,000[citation
SocialVibe Network for needed] Open 41,927[251]
Charity
General.
Popular in
Latin America Open to
[252]
and Spanish 17,000,000 people
Sonico.com [253] 507[254]
and 13 and
Portuguese older
speaking
regions.
Live video
Stickam streaming and 2,000,000[255] Open 2,742[256]
chat.
StudiVZ University 17,000,000[257] Open 316[258]
students,
mostly in the
 German-
speaking
countries.
School
students and
those out of
education sign
up via its
partner sites
schülerVZ and
meinVZ.
Stumble
through
StumbleUpo websites that
10,600,000[259] Open 185[260]
n match your
selected
interests
General.
Subject to
quite some
controversy
Tagged 100,000,000[261] Open 117[262]
about its e-
mail
marketing and
privacy policy
Online Talent
TalentTrove Open 21,177[263]
Network
Business 283,770[26
Talkbiznow Open 4]
networking
Online artistic
Taltopia Open 52,759[265]
community
Taringa! General 350,000[266] Open to 126[267]
people
13 and
 older
Education /
Learning /
TeachStreet Teaching - Open 61,492[268]
More than 400
subjects
Open to
TravBuddy.c people
Travel 2005 1,588,000[269] 11,789[270]
om 18 and
older
Travellerspoi
Travel 2002 310,000[271] Open 11,486[272]
nt
tribe.net General Open 5,706[273]
French
subsidiary of
Trombi.com 4,400,000[274] 7,283[275]
Classmates.co
m
Spanish-based
university and
High School
4,500,000[citation Invite-
Tuenti social needed] 291[276]
only
network. Very
Popular in
Spain
General.
Tumblr Micro- 2007 Open 245[277]
blogging, RSS
General.
July
Micro- 175,000,000[278]
Twitter 15, [279] Open 10[280]
blogging,
2006
RSS, updates
Vkontakte Social 110,578,500[281] Open 37[282]
Network for Septe
Russian- mber
 speaking
world
including
former Soviet 2006
republics.
Biggest site in
Russia
Gothic and Open to
Vampirefrea
industrial 1999 1,931,049[283] users 13 7,577[284]
ks.com
subculture and over
Global Social
Networking
and Campus
Networking
available in
Viadeo English, 30,000,000[285] Open 979[286]
French,
German,
Spanish,
Italian and
Portuguese
Social network
that focuses
heavily on
Virb artists, 2007 Open 22,474[287]
including
musicians and
photographers
Vox Blogging Open 1,319[288]
For computer
fans that want
100,000[citation
Wakoopa to discover needed] Open 9,420[289]
new software
and games
 For readers
and authors to
Wattpad Open 11,008[290]
interact & e-
book sharing
General. UK-
Wasabi Open 95,188[291]
based.
Open to
Travel and May people
WAYN 10,000,000[292] 2,974[293]
lifestyle 2003 18 and
older
WebBiograp Genealogy and 734,214[29
Open 4]
hies biography
Open to
Teenagers - 10 ages 13
WeeWorld 30,000,000[295] 8,729[296]
to 17 and
older.
General with Open,
WeOurFamil emphasis on subscrip 685,337[29
7]
y privacy and tion-
security based
Wer-kennt-
General General 441[298]
wen
June 4,000,000[citation
weRead Books needed] Open 80,233[299]
2007
NA
(Alexa
only
Blogging
Windows records
(formerly 120,000,000[300] Open
Live Spaces data for
MSN Spaces)
second-
level
domains)
[302]
WiserEarth Online 45,000 Open to 77,143[303]
community people
 space for the
social justice
16 and
and
older
environmental
movement[301]
WorldFriend
s
Blogs and Unkno
Xanga 27,000,000[304] Open 768[305]
"metro" areas wn
Business
(primarily
Europe
XING (Germany, 8,000,000[306] Open 269[307]
Austria,
Switzerland)
and China)
Catholic social
networking,
459,914[30
Xt3 created after Open 8]
World Youth
Day 2008
Social Must
networking for have
Yammer 32,993[309]
office compan
colleagues y email
Local
Business
Yelp, Inc. Open 343[310]
Review and
Talk
UK Social
Network 1,680,191
Youmeo Open [311]
(focus on data
portability)
AsianAvenue A social 1997 Open
 network for
the Asian
American
community
Greek Web
Zoo.gr 2004 890,000[312] Open 8,057[313]
Meeting point
Online
Community
for Creative Open to [316]
Talent (host of people 88,555
Zooppa 60,000[314]
brand 14 and
sponsored older[315]
advertising
contests)

References
traffic.

 twitter.com
 hstickam.com
 odnoklassniki.ru
 okcupid.com
 orkut.com
 passado.com
 plaxo.com
 reunion.com
 studivz.net
 tagged.com
 soundpedia.com
 wayn.com
 xanga.com
 360.yahoo.com
 zooomr.com
 yahoomash
 mybloglog.com
 43things.com
 blogcatalog.com
 friendsreunited.co.uk
 friendster.com
 gaiaonline.com
 gather.com
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 linkedin.com
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 facebook.com
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 fotolog.com
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 mixi.jp
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 blackplanet.com
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 care2.com
 classmates.com