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www.Badoo.com – Badoo is a worldwide online community that provides its members with the ability to communicate and share their lives with people both locally and around the globe. Its many features include the next generation in photo/video sharing and social networking.

 

www.Bahu.com – Bahu is a private social networking site for students from all around the world. Created by students for students, the site helps you keep in touch with your friends and your school life, meet new people, create and develop your personal page, your own online clubs, listen and share your music playlists, create photo and video albums, decide who are the talents of tomorrow... and much more.

 

www.Bebo.com – Bebo is the next generation social networking service where members can stay in touch with their College friends, connect with friends, share photos, discover new interests and just hang out.

 

www.Facebook.com – Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life.

 

www.LiveJournal.com – Express yourself, share your life, connect with friends online. You can use LiveJournal in many ways: a private journal, a blog, a discussion forum or a social network.

 

www.meetin.org – Make new friends through a local social network without the pretense of establishing business connections.

 

www.MySpace.com – General, popular with the teen market.

 

www.MyYearbook.com – General, popular with the teen market.

 

www.ning.com – Allows you to create your own social network or join one of the hundreds of existing networks.

 

www.plaxo.com  – Stay in touch with the people you care about.

 

www.squidoo.com  – Squidoo is a hand-built collection of half a million pages built by people just like you. Squidoo is about finding people when you care what they know instead of who they know.

 

www.tagged.com  – Tagged helps people keep in touch with their friends and make new ones. We provide a fun media experience featuring expressive custom profiles, fluid widget embedding, integrated video, chat, and much more.

 

www.tribe.net  – Tribe is for connecting with other people in your community about what to do, where to go, jobs, places to live, and services. Get the most out of where you live!

 

www.twitter.com  – Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

 

http://home.services.spaces.live.com/– Windows Live Spaces is Microsoft's blogging and social networking site.

 

http://www.xanga.com/– Xanga is a community where you can start your own free weblog, share photos and videos, and meet new friends too!

 

 

Business-Specific Social Networking Sites

 

http://www.apsense.com – Apsense is a business social network where people get paid to come together to share their business.

 

http://www.biznik.com – The business networking community where collaboration beats competition.

 

 

http://www.ecademy.com – Business networking, connecting business people.

 

http://www.fastpitchnetworking.com  – Fast Pitch! is a one-stop shop for business professionals to network and market their business.

 

www.LinkedIn.com – Entrepreneurs find people and resources. People find business opportunities.

 

http://www.nethooks.com/- NetHooks presents a unique concept of Portable Professional Networking by empowering users to network externally through applications.

 

www.PartnerUp.com – Business and job connections.

 

http://www.perfectnetworker.com – Grow your business and make stronger business networking relationships with Perfect Networker, the complete business referral group, business mastermind group, and business networking group.

 

http://www.ryze.com –Business networking; it's about people helping each other 'rise up' through quality networking.

 

http://sta.rtup.biz/–The Small Business social network.

 

http://www.wecando.biz –The online new business network for sales leads and referrals. WeCanDo.BIZ is a website where individuals can find quality businesses that have been recommended by their own network of contacts. It is free to join.

 

http://www.xing.com – Global networking for professionals.

 

 

Industry or Genre Specific Social Networking Sites

 

http://www.anobii.com - List books, share thoughts, meet people.

 

http://www.authorstream.com/ - authorSTREAM is a platform for sharing PowerPoint presentations on the Internet. authorSTREAM makes it easier to share your PowerPoint slideshows through blogs, websites, on YouTube and even via iPOD. What's best is that it's all FREE! Just sign-up, upload presentations and start sharing.

 

http://bookmarket.ning.com/- For book authors, self-publishers, book publishers, publicists, marketers, and others involved in writing, publishing, and marketing books.

 

http://www.deviantart.com - Join the largest art community in the world! Membership is FREE to share and sell your artwork, start your Art Collection and track your favorite artists!

 

http://www.eons.com - Eons, Inc. is the online community for spirited BOOMers founded by Jeff Taylor, creator of Monster.com.

 

 

http://experienceproject.com/ - Experience Project is a community of everyday people connecting anonymously through their shared life experiences & passions.

 

http://www.FindVirtual.com - Share Virtual Assistant Networking, Forums, Directory, Jobs, Blogs and Resources.

 

http://www.flickr.com - Share your photos. Watch the world.

 

http://www.gather.com - Gather is social networking grown up - the site where adults go to keep up with the people, conversations, and moments that matter. Since launching in 2004, Gather has emerged as the premier online social network for the over-thirty crowd.

 

http://www.goodreads.com - Goodreads is a free website for book lovers. Imagine it as a large library that you can wander through and see everyone's bookshelves, their reviews, and their ratings. You can also post your own reviews and catalog what you have read, are currently reading, and plan to read in the future. Don’t stop there – join a discussion group, start a book club, contact an author, and even post your own writing.

 

http://last.fm/ - Last.fm is a music service that learns what you love. Every track you play will tell your Last.fm profile something about what you like. It can connect you to other people who like what you like - and recommend songs from their music collections and yours too.

 

http://meetup.com/ - Meetup is the world's largest network of local groups. Meetup makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face. More than 2,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities.

 

http://www.myheritage.com/ - Family site for sharing family tree info, photos, etc. with your relatives.

 

http://quarterlife.com/ - Community for artists, writers, photographers, etc.

 

http://reunion.com/ - The leading website for the grown-up social-network user to reconnect and keep in touch with family, friends, lost loves, and colleagues as life changes.

 

www.secondlife.com/ - Second Life is a 3-D virtual world created by its Residents.

 

www.slideshare.com/ - SlideShare is the best way to share your presentations with the world. Let your ideas reach a broad audience. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to create a webinar.

 

www.yelp.com/ - Yelp is the fun and easy way to find, review and talk about what's great (and not so great) in your world. You already know that asking friends is the best way to find restaurants, dentists, hairstylists, and anything local. Yelp makes it fast and easy by collecting and organizing your friends' recommendations in one convenient place.

 

www.YouTube.com/ - YouTube is the leader in online video, and the premier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience.

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