|
Name |
Description |
Date launched |
Registered users |
Registration |
Alexa ranking |
|
Social networking site for academics/researchers |
September 2008 |
211,000 |
Open |
6,053 |
|
|
Free and open source software developers |
1999 |
13,575 |
Open |
144,599 |
|
|
Books |
2006 |
|
Open |
11,932 |
|
|
European jet set and social elite world-wide |
March 2004 |
550,000 |
Invite-only |
6,192 |
|
|
A social network for the Asian American community |
1997 |
|
Open |
75,854 |
|
|
Running, Swimming |
2001 |
139,458 |
Open |
37,129 |
|
|
Independent music |
2010 |
|
Open |
747,857 |
|
|
Online games |
March 2008 |
|
Open |
22,686,225 |
|
|
General, Meet new people, Popular in Europe and Latin America |
2006 |
86,000,000 |
Open to people 18 and older |
117 |
|
|
General |
July 2005 |
117,000,000 |
Open to people 13 and older |
2,279 |
|
|
Indian Social Networking Site |
August 2007 |
3,000,000 |
Open to people 16 and older |
12,903 |
|
|
Norwegian community |
June 1, 2005 |
430,000 |
Requires Norwegian phone number |
42,468 |
|
|
African-Americans |
September 1, 1999 |
20,000,000 |
Open |
5,863 |
|
|
Anyone who wants to tell something about a stranger or acquaintance. |
2010 |
|
Open to people 13 and older. |
463,796 |
|
|
Blogging community |
November 24, 2005 |
85,579 |
Open |
10,144 |
|
|
General |
1996 |
|
Open |
111,069 |
|
|
Music and pop-culture |
2005 |
10,000,000 |
Open |
1,227 |
|
|
Mothers |
December 2006 |
1,250,000 |
Open to moms and moms-to-be |
1,492 |
|
|
Investing |
September 17, 2007 |
|
Open |
481,922 |
|
|
Green living and social activism |
1998 |
9,961,947 |
Open |
1,883 |
|
|
Not for profit providing free websites that connect family and friends during a serious health event, care and recovery. |
|
9,500,000 |
Open to people 18 and older |
|
|
|
Mobile social game network, Number 8 US mobile website |
2007 |
3,000,000 |
Open to people 14 and older |
115,511 |
|
|
School, college, work and the military |
1995 |
50,000,000 |
Open to people 18 and older |
2,961 |
|
|
General. Popular in Iran |
2004 |
|
Open |
914 |
|
|
Worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit. |
2003 |
2,967,421 |
Open |
1,821 |
|
|
East Asian and Southeast Asian women |
2001 |
150,000 |
Open |
3,711 |
|
|
Faith Based social network for Christian believers from around the world |
2008 |
450,000 |
Open |
31,716 |
|
|
Anime and forums. |
2006 |
|
Open |
5,153 |
|
|
General. Popular in South Korea. |
1999 |
24,000,000 |
Open |
1,020 |
|
|
Photo-blogging site where users upload a photo every day |
February 13, 2009 |
|
Open |
5,014 |
|
|
Medical & emotional support community - Physical health, Mental health, Support groups |
November 4, 2007 |
|
Open |
22,054 |
|
|
European and American social elite |
2001 |
|
Invite-only |
1,263,943 |
|
|
Social bookmarking allowing users to locate and save websites that match their own interests |
September 2003 |
8,822,921 |
Open |
272 |
|
|
Art community |
August 7, 2000 |
9,040,962 |
Open |
126 |
|
|
People with disabilities (Amputee, cerebral palsy, MS, and other disabilities) |
|
|
Open |
275,698 |
|
|
Politic community, Social network, Internet radio (German-speaking countries) |
|
40,200 |
Open |
887,047 |
|
|
Clubbing (primarily UK) |
|
|
Open |
54,095 |
|
|
General (primarily LV, LT, HU) |
|
2,600,466 |
Invitation only |
2,915 |
|
|
Chinese Web 2.0 website providing user review and recommendation services for movies, books, and music. |
2005 |
46,850,000 |
Open |
119 |
|
|
Chinese online community for physicians, health care professionals, pharmacies and facilities |
2000 |
2,000,000 |
Open |
14,005 |
|
|
Community and wiki around Fantasy and sci-fi. |
|
185,000 |
Open, approval needed |
43,277 |
|
|
For research scientists |
|
|
Open |
528,083 |
|
|
For baby boomers |
|
|
Open to people 13 and older |
34,240 |
|
|
Life experiences |
|
|
Open |
3,452 |
|
|
Travel Social Networking. |
|
|
Open |
209,868 |
|
|
General. |
February 2004 |
640,000,000+ |
Open to people 13 and older |
2 |
|
|
General. Popular UK. |
|
200,000 |
Invitation only to people 18 and older |
28,760 |
|
|
Adult Social Network, Mainly UK & USA |
2011 |
700,000 |
Open to people 18 and older worldwide |
159,693 |
|
|
People who are into BDSM |
|
500,000 |
Open to people "of [legal] age to see adult content" |
5,513 |
|
|
Movies and TV Series |
2002 |
250,000 |
Open |
3,916 |
|
|
Entrepreneural community targeted towards worldwide university students |
|
|
Open to university students |
1,793,990 |
|
|
Movies |
2007 |
63,000,000 |
Open to people 13 and older |
1,018 |
|
|
Photo sharing, commenting, photography related networking, worldwide |
February 2004 |
32,000,000 |
Open to people 13 and older (Yahoo! Login) |
31 |
|
|
Business to Business, worldwide |
2005 |
850,000 |
Open to people 13 and older |
11,495 |
|
|
Photo sharing, video hosting, photo contests, journals, forums, flexible privacy protection, friend's feed, audio comments and unlimited custom design integration. |
October 1998 |
1,632,565 |
Open |
5,367 |
|
|
Photoblogging. Popular in South America and Spain |
|
20,000,000 |
Open |
1,194 |
|
|
Location based mobile social network |
|
10,000,000 |
Open |
625 |
|
|
UK based. School, college, work, sport and streets |
|
19,000,000 |
Open to people 13 and older |
10,231 |
|
|
General. Popular in Southeast Asia. No longer popular in the western world |
2002 |
90,000,000 |
Open to people 16 and older. |
979 |
|
|
General |
July 2001 |
14,800[citation needed] |
Open |
1,253,155 |
|
|
dating, an "online bar" for 18 and older |
October 2007 |
1,200,000 |
Open to people 18+ |
9,476 |
|
|
Anime and games. Popular in USA, Canada and Europe. Moderately popular around Asia. |
|
23,523,663 |
Open to people 13 and older |
1,071 |
|
|
Computer and video games |
September 21, 2006 |
310,000 |
Open |
22,887 |
|
|
Article, picture, and video sharing, as well as group discussions |
|
465,000 |
Open |
3,974 |
|
|
Social network for LGBT community, Guide for LGBT bars, restaurants, clubs, shopping |
May 16, 2008 |
100,000 |
Open, Global |
74,664 |
|
|
Families, genealogy |
January 16, 2007 |
15,000,000 |
Open |
5,815 |
|
|
Fair play in Music - Social networking site for musicians and music lovers |
|
|
Invite only while in beta |
119,272 |
|
|
Library cataloging, book lovers |
December 2006 |
|
Open |
2,543 |
|
|
Social network with matchmaking and personality games to find new contacts. Global, based in France. |
October 2010 |
60,000 |
Open |
214,214 |
|
|
General |
June 28, 2011 |
25,000,000 |
Invite only, during pre-release field-trial |
NA (Alexa only records data for Second-level domains) |
|
|
General |
February 9, 2010 |
|
Open |
NA (Alexa only records data for second-level domains) |
|
|
for people in and around government |
|
|
|
91,852 |
|
|
Poland |
|
2,000,000[citation needed] |
Open |
2,958 |
|
|
General for teens. Over 31 communities worldwide. Chat Room and user profiles. |
|
200,000,000 |
Open to people 13 and older |
6,545 |
|
|
General. Popular in India, Mongolia, Thailand, Romania, Jamaica, Central Africa, Portugal and Latin America. Not very popular in the USA. |
2003 |
80,000,000 |
Open to people 13 and older. |
443 |
|
|
Hospitality |
|
328,629 |
Open |
38,258 |
|
|
Geo-Social Aggregator rooted in the concept of knowing where your friends are, were, and will be. |
|
80,000 |
Open |
28,241 |
|
|
Social networking site for Human Resources professionals |
1999 |
194,000 |
Open |
60,048 |
|
|
Global influencers focused on worth creation |
November 2002 |
20,000 |
Invite-only |
515,308 |
|
|
General, mostly popular in the Netherlands. |
|
10,097,000 |
Open |
658 |
|
|
Talent based social networking site that allows to promote one's self and also discover new talent. Most popular in India. |
|
3,500,000 |
Open |
695 |
|
|
Twitter-like service popular with hackers and software freedom advocates. |
|
395,695[citation needed] |
Open |
3,822 |
|
|
Online collaboration for musicians, remix contests, and networking. |
|
350,000 |
Open, Global |
55,062 |
|
|
Finland |
|
505,000 |
Open to Finnish speaking people 12 and older |
3,302 |
|
|
Language learning social network. 100+ languages. |
|
500,000 |
Open, Global |
29,939 |
|
|
International community |
|
|
Invite-only |
25,604 |
|
|
Mobile community worldwide, blogging, friends, personal TV-shows |
|
2,500,000 |
|
206,437 |
|
|
Hungary |
|
4,000,000 |
Invite-only |
532 |
|
|
General. Microblogging. Owned by Google |
February 2006 |
|
Open to people 13 and older |
15,661 |
|
|
General. In Simplified Chinese; caters for mainland China users |
|
|
Open to the General Public |
183 |
|
|
General. |
1999 |
2,400,000 |
Open to people 13 and older |
104,563 |
|
|
Talent-Focused media sharing site |
|
|
Open, Global |
151,301 |
|
|
Marathi social networking |
2010 |
100,000 |
Open |
29,782 |
|
|
Music |
2002 |
30,000,000 |
Open |
552 |
|
|
Book lovers |
August 29, 2005 |
1,300,000 |
Open to people 13 and older |
8,243 |
|
|
Shared interests, hobbies |
|
|
Open to people 18 and older |
602,117 |
|
|
Business and professional networking |
May 2003 |
100,000,000 |
Open to people 18 and older |
13 |
|
|
Social networking website for expatriates. 100+ countries. |
|
|
Open, Global |
1,668,484 |
|
|
Lists. Autobiography |
|
|
Open |
197,009 |
|
|
Blogging. Popular in Russia and among the Russian-speaking diaspora abroad. |
April 15, 1999 |
17,564,977 |
Open (OpenID) |
76 |
|
|
Online language learning |
|
5,000,000 |
Open |
4,079 |
|
|
Sweden |
|
1,200,000 |
Open |
65,874 |
|
|
General |
August 9, 1999 |
|
Open |
723,381 |
|
|
General |
|
|
Open |
173,717 |
|
|
General. Used to plan offline meetings for people interested in various activities |
|
|
Open to people 18 and older |
739 |
|
|
Business and Finance community, worldwide. |
|
|
Open |
107,180 |
|
|
Japan |
October 25, 2000 |
24,323,160 |
Invite-only |
140 |
|
|
mobile community, UK only |
|
|
Open to people 18 and older |
1,851,728 |
|
|
mobile community, worldwide |
|
3,000,000 |
Open to people 14 and older |
3,685 |
|
|
Music |
|
|
Open to people 14 and older |
4,221 |
|
|
Social Network, social media, consumer reviews |
|
|
Open |
2,545 |
|
|
Auteur cinema |
|
200,000 |
Open |
25,648 |
|
|
"Real world" relationships. Popular in primarily in Asia. |
|
10,000,000 |
Open to people 13 and older. |
382 |
|
|
Muslim portal site |
2006 |
50,000 |
Open to people 13 and older |
59,099 |
|
|
Anime themed social community |
|
160,000 |
Open to people 13 and older |
6,096 |
|
|
family-oriented social network service |
|
30,000,000 |
Open |
2,953 |
|
|
Locating friends and family, keeping in touch (formerly Reunion.com) |
|
51,000,000 |
Open |
1,481 |
|
|
Blogging, mobile blogging, photo sharing, connecting with friends, Opera Link and Opera Unite. Global |
|
7,300,000 |
Open |
NA (Alexa only records data for second-level domains) |
|
|
General |
August 2003 |
100,000,000+ |
Open to ages 13 and older. |
86 |
|
|
General, Charity |
|
20,000,000 |
Open to age 13 and up & Grades 9 and up |
851 |
|
|
School, college and friends. Popular in Poland |
|
11,000,000 |
Open |
40,961 |
|
|
General. Popular in Europe, Turkey, the Arab World and Canada's Québec province. Formerly known as Facebox and Redbox. |
|
70,000,000 |
Open to people 13 and older |
296 |
|
|
Norwegian Community |
September 14, 2006 |
|
Open |
2,719 |
|
|
Canada |
|
1,400,000 |
Open to people 13 and older |
24,071 |
|
|
Non-Profit news sharing and networking, mainly in India |
|
15,000 |
Open |
70,134 |
|
|
Users create their own social websites and social networks |
|
|
Open to people 13 and older |
273 |
|
|
Connect with old classmates. Popular in Russia and former Soviet republics |
|
45,000,000 |
Open |
104 |
|
|
Not for Profit Social networking and Climate Change |
|
|
Open to People of all ages and locations |
307,773 |
|
|
Not for Profit Video sharing and social networking aimed at people interested in social issues, development, environment, etc. |
|
|
Open |
27,434,227 |
|
|
First online blogging community, founded in 1998 |
1998 |
5,000,000 |
Open to people 13 and older |
39,290 |
|
|
General. Owned by Google Inc. Popular in India and Brazil. |
January 22, 2004 |
100,000,000 |
Open to people 18 and older, (Google login) |
106 |
|
|
Gay/LGBTQ Community |
|
|
Open |
329,887 |
|
|
Travel |
|
|
Open |
366,598 |
|
|
Online community for patients with life-changing illnesses to find other patients like them, share their data with others, and learn more about their condition to improve their outcome. |
2006 |
109,587 |
Open to people 13 years and up |
57,962 |
|
|
Dutch virtual community for people interested in house music and other electronic dance music |
November 10, 2001 |
321,125 |
Open to people 18 years and up |
7,226 |
|
|
Collaborative platform for the world's Internetwork Experts |
|
|
Invite-only, only Internet Experts |
1,668,955 |
|
|
Aggregator |
|
15,000,000 |
Open |
1,533 |
|
|
Swedish, Danish teenagers |
|
|
Closed |
63,081 |
|
|
Connecting indie music bands and listeners, through music sharing and social networking |
2003 |
|
Open |
20,822 |
|
|
Computer and video games |
|
|
Open to people 13 and older |
62,555 |
|
|
General, Music |
|
|
Open to people over 13 |
4,340 |
|
|
Micro-blogging, RSS, updates. Very popular in Taiwan |
|
|
Open |
1,072 |
|
|
Enterprise social networking and micro-blogging |
|
|
Open |
4,893,711 |
|
|
A a business-oriented social networking site and a business directory |
|
|
Open to people 16 and older |
96,847 |
|
|
General, friendship, dating |
2007 |
|
Open to those over 16 |
150,757 |
|
|
General. In Simplified Chinese; caters for mainland China users |
|
480,000,000 |
Open to the general public |
NA (Alexa only records data for second-level domains) |
|
|
Video games |
|
|
Open |
25,664 |
|
|
Knitting and crochet |
|
743,930 |
Open |
7,811 |
|
|
Significant site in China. Was known as ?? (Xiaonei) until August 2009. |
|
160,000,000 |
Open |
83 |
|
|
Social network for scientific researchers |
|
400,000 |
Open |
23,095 |
|
|
Social network for musician and bands |
|
500,000 |
Open to people 16 and older |
4,422 |
|
|
Business |
|
500,000 |
Open |
19,839 |
|
|
Science-oriented multimedia platform and network for scientists |
|
|
Open |
26,804 |
|
|
Collaborative network site for scientists |
|
|
By invitation, but can request an invitation |
1,231,795 |
|
|
Music Community. Sharing and listening to music for free and legally |
|
|
Open |
471,712 |
|
|
Books |
October 11, 2006 |
|
Open |
19,681 |
|
|
Social Network in French-speaking world |
|
22,000,000 |
Open |
437 |
|
|
Brazilian jet set and social elite world-wide |
2008 |
550,000 |
Invite-only |
154,533 |
|
|
Social Network for Charity |
|
435,000[citation needed] |
Open |
41,927 |
|
|
General. Popular in Latin America and Spanish and Portuguese speaking regions. |
|
17,000,000 |
Open to people 13 and older |
507 |
|
|
Repository of original music pieces and networking. |
|
1,000,000 |
Open |
374 |
|
|
Live video streaming and chat. |
|
2,000,000 |
Open |
2,742 |
|
|
University students, mostly in the German-speaking countries. School students and those out of education sign up via its partner sites schülerVZ and meinVZ. |
|
17,000,000 |
Open |
1,318 |
|
|
Stumble through websites that match your selected interests |
|
10,600,000 |
Open |
108 |
|
|
General. |
|
100,000,000 |
Open |
281 |
|
|
Online Talent Network |
|
|
Open |
21,177 |
|
|
Business networking |
|
|
Open |
283,770 |
|
|
Online artistic community |
|
|
Open |
52,759 |
|
|
General |
|
11,000,000 |
Open to people 13 and older |
137 |
|
|
Education / Learning / Teaching - More than 400 subjects |
|
|
Open |
61,492 |
|
|
Learning / Languages / Translation - 1.2m terms in more than 1300 subjects |
May 2010 |
|
Open |
16,182 |
|
|
Travel |
2005 |
1,588,000 |
Open to people 18 and older |
11,789 |
|
|
Travel |
2002 |
310,000 |
Open |
11,486 |
|
|
General |
|
|
Open |
5,706 |
|
|
French subsidiary of Classmates.com |
|
4,400,000 |
|
7,283 |
|
|
Spanish-based university and High School social network. Very Popular in Spain |
|
4,500,000[citation needed] |
Invite-only |
730 |
|
|
General. Micro-blogging, RSS |
2007 |
|
Open |
46 |
|
|
General. Micro-blogging, RSS, updates |
July 15, 2006 |
175,000,000 |
Open |
9 |
|
|
Social Network for Russian-speaking world including former Soviet republics. |
September 2006 |
110,578,500 |
Open |
44 |
|
|
Gothic and industrial subculture |
1999 |
1,931,049 |
Open to users 13 and over |
7,577 |
|
|
Global Social Networking and Campus Networking available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese |
|
35,000,000 |
Open |
710 |
|
|
Social network that focuses heavily on artists, including musicians and photographers |
2007 |
|
Open |
22,474 |
|
|
Blogging |
|
|
Open |
1,319 |
|
|
For computer fans that want to discover new software and games |
|
100,000[citation needed] |
Open |
9,420 |
|
|
For readers and authors to interact & e-book sharing |
|
|
Open |
11,008 |
|
|
General. UK-based. |
|
|
Open |
95,188 |
|
|
Travel and lifestyle |
May 2003 |
10,000,000 |
Open to people 18 and older |
2,974 |
|
|
Genealogy and biography |
|
|
Open |
734,214 |
|
|
Teenagers - 10 to 17 |
|
30,000,000 |
Open to ages 13 and older. |
8,729 |
|
|
General with emphasis on privacy and security |
|
|
Open, subscription-based |
685,337 |
|
|
General |
|
|
General |
441 |
|
|
Books |
June 2007 |
4,000,000[citation needed] |
Open |
80,233 |
|
|
Blogging (formerly MSN Spaces) |
|
120,000,000 |
Open |
NA (Alexa only records data for second-level domains) |
|
|
Online community space for the social justice and environmental movement |
|
45,000 |
Open to people 16 and older |
77,143 |
|
|
Site networking inmates, friends, family |
September 2000 |
66,000 |
Open to people 18 years and older |
252,188 |
|
|
Blogs and "metro" areas |
Unknown |
27,000,000 |
Open |
768 |
|
|
Business (primarily Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and China) |
|
8,000,000 |
Open |
260 |
|
|
Catholic social networking, created after World Youth Day 2008 |
|
|
Open |
136,804 |
|
|
Social networking for office colleagues |
|
|
Must have company email |
3,769 |
|
|
Local Business Review and Talk |
|
|
Open |
182 |
|
|
Greek Web Meeting point |
2004 |
890,000 |
Open |
8,057 |
|
|
Online Community for Creative Talent (host of brand sponsored advertising contests) |
|
60,000 |
Open to people 14 and older |
88,555 |
