In the present time, social networking sites serve as a popular mode of connecting people around the world. These sites provide an easy and convenient way to link with people.
Social networking is a booming sector in the modern world. These sites help in increasing an individual's network by allowing access to connect with others on an online platform.
Some popular social networking websites that strengthen your network are listed below:
1.Facebook
Facebook is one of the liked social networking websites. Launched on February 4,2004 Facebook is available in 112 languages. This website helps people link through an app.
Operating the app requires making an account on Facebook which requires a minimum age of 13 years. People share various posts on Facebook and other people connected with them can like and comment on the posts. A few years back Facebook has also added a feature of playing games online with friends.
URL: facebook.com
2.Instagram
Released on October 6, 2010, Instagram is a popular social networking website. It allows people to directly connect with their favorite celebrities by following them. One needs to make an account on Instagram and then they can follow their favorite actor, actress, cricketer, and politicians who have an account on Instagram.
Presently Christiano Ronaldo is the most followed personality in the world and Virat Kohli is the most followed personality in India.
URL: instagram.com
3.Twitter
Twitter is a social networking site founded on March 21, 2006. It is a blogging an app where people share posts known as 'tweets'. Other connected people can like and comment on these posts. They can also retweet tweets.
Celebrities and politicians also use Twitter to raise a topic and normal public can express their views on the topic. It is a well-known platform for online interaction.
URL: twitter.com
4.LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a business-related social networking site launched on May 5, 2003. This app provides a place for interaction between people seeking jobs and people providing jobs. People can post their CVs and companies can post job offers.
LinkedIn has 774+ million registered members in over 200 countries and the union territories.
URL: www.linkedin.com
5. Feeding Trends
If you are a writer or love writing, then this is your platform. Feeding Trends is a Social Blogging Platform that not only helps writers to create amazing content through its Free AI recommendation tools but also helps their content rank on search engines and gain search traffic easily. It looks after all technicalities and all a user have to do is produce knowledgeable and non-plagiarized content.
Moreover, your content can also get monetized very easily. Therefore, if you are a creator of Feeding Trends, you can easily earn money and follow your passion for writing.
URL: feedingtrends.com
6.Quora
Having a revenue of $20 million as of 2018 Quora is a question-and-answer social networking site. Through this app, people can put up a query online and other people can comment and answer the questions asked by other users.
Registration is optional for reading but is required for interacting. Quora noted that 300 million users visited this social networking site in a month in 2020.
URL: quora.com
7.Tumblr
Tumblr is an American microblogging social networking website that was founded on February 2007. It allows its users to post blogs on numerous topics.
Tumblr has features like:
Dashboard where the recent posts are shown.
2. Queue is used to fix schedules for posting blogs.
3. Tags can be used in blogs which helps other users to easily reach that blog.
4. HTML editing is allowed on Tumblr.
URL: www.tumblr.com
8.Pinterest
Pinterest is one of the best social networking websites used for sharing images and videos related to a wide range of ideas. This social networking site was created in December 2009 and has its headquarters in San Francisco, California.
It is a great platform for companies to promote their products at mentioned price. Pinterest has about 436.8 million (2022) users.
URL: pinterest.com
9.YouTube
YouTube is an online video platform founded on February 14, 2005. With a rating of 4.2 Youtube is a social networking site where people can create and watch videos on various topics.
By posting videos people can gain subscribers from all around the world and on reaching a certain number of subscribes awards are provided by the YouTube team as
1. Silver play button: 1,00,000 subscribers
2. Gold play button: 10,00,000 subscribers
3.Diamond play button: 1,00,00,000 subscribers
4.Red Diamond play button: 10,00,00,000 subscribers
URL: www.youtube.com
10.Reddit
Founded on June 23, 2005, Reddit is a discussion website. This is another social networking which allows users to share links, images and videos which are voted by other users. Posts are organized according to the subject.
Being a premium member of this social networking site allows you to view posts ad-free.
URL: reddit.com
11.Flickr
Flickr is another image and video sharing social networking website founded in Canada and headquartered in the US. Flickr allows to host images and videos and has a total of 112 million registered users.
This social networking site is available in Chinese(traditional), English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
URL: flickr.com
12.Behance
Behance is a well-known social networking website owned by Adobe. It provides a platform for people to share and discover creative content.Behance was founded by Matias Corea and Scott Belsky on November 6, 2005, and has 1,00,00,000+ (2018) users.
URL: www.behance.net
13.GitHub
A provider of Internet hosting for software development is a social networking the site is known as GitHub. GitHub hosts open-source projects and it reported over 73 million developers and more than 200 million repositories.
It has features like bug tracking, feature requests, task management, continuous integration and wikis for every project.
URL: github.com
14.MySpace
MySpace is a social networking website available in 14 languages. MySpace was launched on August 1, 2003, and is served worldwide. This site is the first online network to reach a large audience through features such as pop culture and music.
Operating MySpace requires creating an account on it and it individual must be at least 14 years old to register.
URL: myspace.com
15.Friendster
Launched in 2003 Friendster is an online gaming site based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This social networking website allows people to share content with other members and is also used to discover new events, bands, and hobbies.
Friendster helps in connecting to friends, and family and also allows to meet new people with similar interests which helps them to join different activities.
URL: www.friendster.com
16.Habbo
Habbo is a social networking site specifically aimed at youngsters. Habbo is a social world-building game and it celebrated its 20th birthday in the summer of 2020. The users of Habbo boosted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Players can create rooms and characters and also chat with other players. The the game involves completing quests.
17.NING
Ning is a social networking website founded by Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen. The website aims to provide people with a platform to create social networks having similar interests with the help of visual design, chat, email forums, polls, and analytics.
In 2018 Ning also launched a feature that helps people to earn through social websites.
URL: www.ning.com
18.Classmates
Launched on November 17, 1995 Classmates is a social networking site created by Randy Conrads. Classmates are places where students can connect with other students of their class or institution who already have an account on classmates. It helps in people to connect with their old colleagues and friends through an online website. It focuses on nostalgic content.
URL: www.classmates.com
19.Tagged
Tagged is a social networking site owned by The Meet Group. It is a discovery a website where users search for other user's profiles and can share tags and virtual gifts with them.
Tagged had to pay a $1.4 million fine for sending bulk emails in 2009. Tagged also includes the feature of online gaming which encourages people to make new friends online. However, children below 13 years do not have access to this website.
URL: www.tagged.com
20.MyLife
Formerly known as Reunion.com MyLife is a social networking website having headquarters in Los Angeles, California. MyLife is an information broker website that can search over 60 social networking sites on the web. It also suggests friends and contacts you may know and also provide updates and alerts.
MyLife gathers information through public records and other sources.
URL: www.MyLife.com
21.Orkut
Orkut is yet another social networking website that helps to connect back with old friends and maintain existing relationships. Through Orkut, one can also make new friends online.
Orkut was a popular social networking website in India in 2008. Using Orkut requires registration.
URL: www.orkut.com
22.BlackPlanet
Founded in 1999 BlackPlanet is a social networking site having headquarters in 205 Hudson Street, 6th Floor, New York. BlackPlanet is a website where people can share and read blogs, and news and watch music videos.
This social networking website is more popular among Africans and Americans. BlackPlanet also helped Former President of US " Barack Obama" to reach to 2,00,000 people through an online mode.
URL: blackplanet.com
23.Zorpia
Zorpia is a famous social networking website in China. Zorpia includes features like :
1. Profile Customization
2. Networking Features
3. Detailed Search
This social networking website was blamed for sending misguiding messages about people.
URL: www.zorpia.com
24.Netlog
Netlog is designed for people to create their web pages and also allows to chat, play games, share posts, and meet new people.The site was launched in 1999 and was previously known as Facebox and Bingbox. It is available in 25 languages and helps in increasing a person's social network.
25.Tuenti
Tuenti is popularly known as Spanish Facebook and was founded in February 22,2006. It is among the famous social networking site in Spain which is designed to share photos, blogs, videos, and links online.
26.Xing
Xing is a popular social networking site in German, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and France. It is a social networking website similar to LinkedIn which provides a business platform to users. The registration on Xing can be free as well as a premium based on the choice of the user.
URL: www.xing.com
All these social networking websites are of vital importance and help in expanding social networks worldwide. There are many other websites that strengthen a person's social network.
The correct usage of these websites can be of great use. So anyone searching for a network to express themselves can rely upon any of these social networking sites.