List of Social Networking Sites Online

Social media sites have been in existence since the middle of nineties but it exploded across the web only during the recent years. The modern day social media sites become popular because of its user friendly and easy to navigate features. List of social networking sites online can be classified into three categories like general interest, special interest network and international sites. Some of the top social networking sites are as follows.

Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg founder of facebook designed this social networking site for Harvard students, which spread throughout the campus ranks down to high school, which was opened to the public in 2006. Today facebook is the number one social media site with users increasing day by day.

MySpace: This social networking site was started in 2003 and is the first and the driving force behind all the social networking sites. Even today, it maintains a large user base with its highly customizable social network.

Twitter: Started as a micro blogging website twitter has grown into a massive social messaging platform in the world. It has become an outlet for news, buzz, trends and chatting and is expanding day by day. It is the ideal platform for smart phone and tablet users who access the web.

LinkedIn: This is a business oriented social network where professionals can connect. Here members invite people to connect instead of friends. In other words, it is a contact management system where they can promote themselves and their business to other professionals and interact with them.

Tumblr: This is also a micro blogging site but unlike twitter, this social networking site is heavily influenced by image sharing.

YouTube: When it comes to video sharing nothing can beat YouTube. Even though owned by Google people recognize it as a separate social network which revolves around music, video sharing.

Google+: This is one of the newest and the fastest growing social networking site in the web. This is one of the best features Google has produced which people are excited to use.

Instagram: This is the most popular photo sharing social network the web has seen for mobile. Initially it was just confined to iOS platform but now it has expanded to android and windows phone.

List of social networking sites online is growing day by day with new sites coming up with new features.