Social Networking Online Communities On the Web

A social networking site offers users a place to post their goals, interests and personal information, then interact with others. There may be an area for a blog or web page, as well as a place to add photos. Most social networking sites are free, and open to the general public. Some are private, or are designed for the use of those with a common interest.

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• Copper Strings - Spiritual home for people who consider themselves alternative, holistic or green.
  
• Opera Community - Features include a weblog service, photo albums and forums. Users may download skins and setups for the Opera browser.
  
• Eons - Information, tools and communities for people over the age of fifty.
  
• The Madtown Lounge - Features directory of venues and bands including their popularity tabulated through user search. Offers customized user lists through membership and an event calendar.
  
• Kindo - Site allows users to build their free family tree and makes genealogy fun and allows families to build their family tree for free and grow.
  
• 2collab - Online collaboration tool for researchers that enables to share, connect and discuss researches.
  
• Gather - Encourages users to write articles and reviews, upload audio and images. Members collect Gather Points™ that can be used to purchase goods and services.
  
• Where Are You Now? (WAYN) - A travel and lifestyle social networking community designed for members to meet others, keep friends and family informed of their whereabouts and activities, and share experiences.
  
• Fruehstueckstreff - A forum for people to meet for breakfast and stimulating conversation. Basic and premium memberships. In English and German.
  
• Faces - In addition to profiles, offers email, a forum, music, videos and an arcade sections are available.
  
• FaceParty - Community including live chat, photograph uploads and messaging between members.
  
• The Student Center - A community for teens, college students, and young adults. Offers profiles, forum, groups, chat and games.
  
• MiGente.com - An English language site for the Hispanic community, reflecting Latino culture and perspectives.
  
• Netlog - Members can create a profile and a guestbook, post pictures and send and receive messages. Create a clan or join one of the existing clans.
  
• Experience Project - A personal growth and support community connecting members through shared experiences.
  
• Ryze Business Networking - Members get a free networking-oriented home page and can send messages to other members. They can also join special Networks related to their industry, interests or location.
  
• Piyy - A social dictionary allows its users to define their world.
  
• Friends Reunited - The main site reunites people, while Genes Reunited enables members to pool their family trees; the Dating and Jobs sites link members with similar attributes, interests and/or locations. Pages specific to several locations around the world.
  
• MindViz - Home to a number of signed and unsigned underground artists, this site offers such features as profiles, blogs, member polls, instant messaging, live chat, and email.
  
• PerfSpot - A free, public, international social network offering custom privacy tools, photo sharing, blog publishing, interest groups, messaging and chat, streaming music and video, and social applications.
  
• Skyrock - Offers blogs, profiles, chat, photos, and videos.
  
• Libre.fm - A social music platform, Internet radio and music community similar to Last.fm, based on free software and open standards.
  
• Taltopia - A social networking platform that connects aspiring talent with fans and industry professionals.
  
• tribe.net - An online community, based in several cities throughout the U.S. and in Canada. Users create a network of friends, and join or create tribes for common interests.
  
• OUTeverywhere - A lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community that includes member profiles, picture galleries, private messages, discussion boards and online chat. Also organizes offline events.
  
• Peers Only - Network with profiles, blogs, and groups.
  
• Woophy - A photo sharing website and online community where members can put their photos on a world map. Offers photo contests and a forum.
  
• Dogpawfile - A social community for pet lovers, to share photos, stories and videos. Free and pay memberships.
  
• StumbleUpon - A web browser plugin that allows users to discover and rate webpages, photos, videos, and news articles.
  
• Classmates.com - Find, connect and keep in touch with friends and acquaintances, post photographs, announcements, and biographies, read community message boards and be informed of upcoming reunions. Free and paid memberships.
  
• Espin - Designed for teens and college students to meet, rate pictures, and take quizzes. Members can meet new people, without the risk of rejection.
  
• FaceJunky.com - Community with profiles, search, browsing, groups, classifieds, events, and quizzes.
  
• Last.fm - An internet radio and music community website and social music platform. Uses a recommendation system known as "Audioscrobbler", to build a detailed profile of each user's musical taste.
  
• Jaiku - Users can create a microblog and connect friends, posting from the web, by SMS, or from desktop clients.
  
• Snockles - Social messaging and networking site where you broadcast snockles to your friends through your mobile phone (SMS) and the web.
  
• Bebo - Allows users to share photos with music, and blogs, and draw on members' White Boards.
  
• Cyloop - Allows users to listen free music, watch videos, read interviews and news, connect with artists and friends.
  
• Fotki - A service for sharing and printing photos. Also offers blogs.
  
• Nexopia - Offers profiles, friends list, blogs, galleries, articles, and forums.
  
• Shelfari - This social media site is focused on books. Members can build virtual bookshelves, discover, rate and discuss books, and participate in online groups.
  
• Flickr - Picture galleries available with chat, groups, and photo ratings.
  
• Piczo - In this photo website builder and community, users can add items such as images, text content, videos, glitters, shout-outs, and profile pages.
  
• Greenopolis - An Interactive, collaborative and educational community bringing together individuals, communities, organizations and corporations to help people learn, act and receive rewards.
  
• myYearbook - Offers quizzes and a weblog section, as well as videos and free content from CliffsNotes.
  
• OkCupid - A free social networking and dating website that also offers features that include blogs and member-created quizzes.
  
• Kaboodle - Shopping community where people recommend and discover new things.
  
• BlackPlanet.com - A community for African Americans, that provides an interactive forum with chat, photos, games, email, and contests.
  
• Indyarocks - Focuses on India. Contains profiles, games, music, photographs, and SMS messages.
  
• Cyworld - Users have access to a profile page, photos, drawings and images uploading, an avatar, neighborhoods, and clubs.
  
• Friendster - A global social network that emphasizes friendship and the discovery of new people. Search for old friends and classmates, stay in touch with friends, share photos and videos. Also in Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and in Spanish.
  
• Meetup - Helps groups of people with shared interests plan events and facilitates off line group meetings in various localities around the world.
  
• OneClimate.net - Devoted to the subject of climate change, users share thoughts, ask questions, and post videos and images. Create a personal eco-profile and calculate a carbon footprint.
  
• Multiply - Users can create, share and discuss blogs, photos, videos and music with others as well as post reviews of movies and books, or share a calendar of events.
  
• Galoomba - An online community that enables the user to interact with people, locally and worldwide. Includes personal pages, forums, messaging, photos and group listings.
  
• Pownce - Users send messages, files, links, and events to friends. Basic and pro accounts. Currently only limited registrations are accepted.
  
• Zwinkster - Users can build online profiles, create customized avatars, become friends with other users, and engage in basic social networking activities in the virtual world Zwinktopia.
  
• Gaia Online - General Anime, Manga, and video game discussions, a links database and a fan-art gallery. Lets members create and customize characters to represent themselves.
  
• Fotolog - A community of interconnected photo diaries and blogs.
  
• Lifeblob - A social timeline service to capture users' lives and see how they intersects with friends and family members.
  
• Flixster - Members can share movie ratings, add favorite celebrities to their weblog, meet people with similarities, and take a movie quiz.
  
• WebBiographies.com - This service has an emphasis on genealogy, biography and memoir writing and family trees. Members receive a life book which has a public journal website. The system is designed to accommodate almost any language and character set.
  
• Sportsvite - A service for organizing active sports and connecting with other players for league teams, pick-up games, and sports or activity groups; combines sports-specific targeted search and member profiles with invitation and game management tools.
  
• eCRUSH - Find out if a secret admirer feels the same, without the risk of rejection; also quizzes, chat, love advice, and match making.
  
• Care2 - Connects activists from around the world, with member profiles, news stories and blogs to facilitate social networking, petition and donation drives and email.
  
• Graduates.com - Lists schools, colleges and universities from many countries and offers free registration and browsing. Members can list contact information, a brief biography, and other details, to reunite with former classmates.
  
• CouchSurfing - Offers profile listing, discussion groups and a place to arrange free accommodations around the world.
  
• Orkut - Social networking and discussion site operated by Google.
  
• Tagged - Allows users to send messages, leave comments, browse photos, watch videos, play games, give tags and chat.
  
• Bragalia - A social community allows people around the world to brag about their achievements and immediately share their success stories with friends and family.
  
• TakingITGlobal - An international non-profit organization headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that connects youth around the world, encouraging them to get involved in improving their local and global communities.
  
• XING - A social software platform providing a small-world network for professionals.
  
• Doostang - An invitation only site that ensures all contacts entering the system are trusted by at least one or more members in the network. Members share career opportunities and interact with others.
  
• Uniteddogs - Meeting place for dog owners. Offers blogs, photo sharing, forum and videos. [multi-languages]
  
• Advogato - A community site for developers of free software.
  
• DontStayIn - View photos from bars, clubs and other social events throughout the UK, the US, Spain and Ireland. Profile page, gallery and live chat.
  
• MOG - An online community that focuses on sharing songs, a music library, videos and thoughts on music.
  
• LiveJournal - A service for journals and blogs, that also offers privacy controls, photo storage, publishing tools, style templates, and online communities for many interests.
  
• Faves - Allows users to find, save and share interesting web content with friends and family.
  
• Dodgeball.com - Mobile social software available in several cities in the United States, maintained by Google. Profile page for members.
  
• Coworkers.com - Offers coworker reviews, ratings and feedbacks.
  
• Geni - Enables the creation of a family tree, and a profile, which can be shared with family and friends.
  
• aSmallWorld - A private online community designed for those who already have strong connections with one another. By invitation only.
  
• Ning - An online service to create, customize, and share a social network.
  
• hi5 - Offers a profile page, a friend request feature, photo storage, music reviews, video, and email.
  
• Webs - Space for individuals, groups, or small businesses to share photos and videos, open a store, and build a member community.
  
• MyChurch - A service for Christian churches that follow the Nicene Creed. In addition to standard services, it allows churches to post sermon podcasts, have event calendars, and collect tithes from members for a fee.
  
• LipstickAlley.com - Discussion forum with topics that include celebrity news and gossip, current events, and sports. Also features confessions, blogs and games.
  
• CarDomain - A home for car enthusiasts, with pictures, video, groups and blogs.
  
• Tribler - Allows its users to find, enjoy and share content.
  
• Dandelife - Users are able to create a personal biography and share it with the world. Incorporates photos at Flickr, and videos at Youtube.
  
• Pouchons.com - A hip-hop networking site. Contains photographs, profiles, forums, chat, and music.
  
• Sermo - An online community for physicians to post observations and questions about clinical issues and hear other doctors' opinions.
  
• Zooomr - Offers online photo sharing. Users can securely and privately show photos to friends and family, or weblog the photos taken with a camera phone.
  
• Grono.net - Offers videos, groups and forums as well as profile pages and classifieds. Based in Poland, available in several languages.
  
• Identi.ca - A social microblogging service similar to Twitter, built on open source tools and open standards. Allows users to send text-based posts up to 140 characters long.
  
• Imeem - Users interact with each other by watching, posting, and sharing content of all media types, including blogs, photos, audio, and video.
  
• Buzznet - A video, photo and journal based community that enables users to program dynamic multimedia communities around music and pop culture topics.
  
• Badoo - A worldwide community that provides its members with the ability to communicate and share their lives. Features include photo and video sharing.
  
• Amina - Provides articles, news, online discussion boards, chat room, photo gallery, and private email service focusing on social life in Chechnya. Users may write in Chechen, Russian, and English.
  
• Rummble - A mobile social network. Users can share favorite places, explore friend's travels on the web or from a mobile, upload photos, write a mobile weblog, instant message, and flirt.
  
• 43 Things - Users create an account and list goals or hopes which are then connected to other people's goals.
  
• Broadcaster.com - A live entertainment community allows users to communicate with one another through a two-way web cam interface with interactive broadcast controls. Also offers access to content such as video clips, live web cams, and games.
  
• Akoha - A community where users gets cards with an action to do to someone else to give them the card.
  
• The Hospitality Club - A network of people around the world who offer accommodation, advice and help for travelers. Free membership.
  
• Fanpop - Fan clubs covering a variety of topics with video, images, forums, bookmarking and polls.
  
• TravBuddy - Hotel reviews, and travel blogs to help with trip planning. Users can share travel tips, find a travel buddy, or weblog about travel experiences.
  
• LinkedIn - A networking tool to find connections to recommended job candidates, industry experts and business partners. Allows registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business.
  
• MEETin.org - A community dedicated to providing a casual social environment. Members are encouraged to organize and participate in events in any given MEETin city.
  
• Vox - A personal blogging service where people share thoughts, photos, videos with friends and family.
  
  

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