Monday, October 6, 2008

What are the most important social networking websites?

MySpace.com: 191 million members. This site is massive, boasting the largest membership of any social networking site on the Internet.

Facebook.com: Was initially intended for college students -- it branched out, and now allows everyone membership. 70 million members.

Linkedin.com: 12.5 million members -- a powerful tool for business networking.

Friendster.com: 29 million members. Friendster was considered the top online social networking service until around April 2004, when it was overtaken by MySpace. Demographic studies indicate users are from 17 to 30 years old.

Stumbleupon.com: Boasting 2.75 million users, StumbleUpon is a web browser plugin that allows its users to discover and rate webpages, photos, videos, and news articles. A great way to get website promotion. Bought by eBay for $75 million in May 2007.

del.icio.us: The website del.icio.us (pronounced as "delicious") is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in late 2003, and is now part of Yahoo!.

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