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Start a personal profile site that you can use to communicate with other people on the network. MySpace profiles, Xanga profiles and other profile sites let you create a personal Web page that you can customize and use to keep in touch with other people on the network.
What Are Social Networks Good For?
Now you can do so much more with a social network than just meet people and send messages. You can create photo albums, add videos, listen to your favorite music, find old friends and so much more. Even the profile pages have evolved. Many social networks let you change the colors of your profile and even add backgrounds and change the layout.
Why Social Networking?
Put simply, social networking is a way for one person to meet up with other people on the Net. That's not all though. Some people use social networking sites for meeting new friends on the Net. Other's use it to find old friends. Then there are those who use it to find people who have the same problems or interests they have, this is called niche networking.
Create Your Own Social Network
There are a few places online that will let you create your own social networking site. Why, you ask, would someone want to create their own social networking site when there are so many out there already? One reason would be that there isn't currently one out that covers the niche you want covered...
Top 10 Social Networking Sites of 2007
Here are my top 10 picks for the best social networking sites of 2007. Social networking sites are places where people can go online to meet other people and create their own "friend" list. Blogging, music, videos and photo albums are a big part of what makes a good social networking site into a great social networking site.
Take a Tour of Social Networking Sites
See what the different social networking sites have to offer for you. These social networking sites are all different in a lot of ways and similar in others. Sites like MySpace, Xanga, Yahoo 360, Facebook, Friendster, MSN Spaces and Windows Live Space let you find friends both old and new. Go on a tour of these and other social networking sites to find out what they each have to offer and what they can do for you.
Create a MySpace.com Profile
MySpace allows you to sign up and create a profile for yourself so your friends can find you online and so you have a starting place for your online presence. If you would like to have a MySpace account here is what you need to do.
Meet People Online With Facebook
Facebook is an online site that lets you find people. Find people you used to know with Facebook or find out who's living around you. Create groups and events with Facebook too.
Add Your Face To This Mosaic of Faces
Add your face to this large and ever growing mosaic of faces on the Internet. Your face could be a part of a possible record breaking mosaic. AddYourFace is also a social network that lets you earn points for playing games, among other things.
Sign Up With Yahoo! 360°
Yahoo! 360° is a profile site like MySpace or Xanga. With Yahoo! 360° you can create your own profile site complete with a profile, photos, blog, photo albums and friends list. Find other people on Yahoo! 360° with similar interests or get in contact with friends of yours.
Sign Up For Xanga Free - Get Your Own Xanga Weblog
Xanga is a weblog community. Create a weblog with Xanga and get a profile page to go along with your weblog. You can also upload photos to your Xanga weblog to make your Xanga weblog more personal. Find out how to create start your own Xanga weblog.
What Is Friendster? What Does Friendster Offer?
Find new and old friends with Friendster. Even find someone to love. You can add video to your Friendster profile and create music playlists. Change the way your Friendster profile page looks with provided backgrounds or by creating your own with CSS. Photo albums and blogs are available with your Frienster profile too.
What is Windows Live Space?
If you want to meet new friends I believe that Windows Live Spaces would be a great place to do it. There is an IM program you can use right from your page that lets you keep in touch with friends easily. Add a blog and photo album to your profile page too. Also add music and video hosted elsewhere if you want. With the privacy features offered you hava a pretty good profile site.
Create an MSN Spaces Profile
Create a profile for your MSN Spaces Web site. MSN Spaces allows you to create a blog and a photo album on one site. Create your MSN Spaces profile so people reading your MSN Spaces Web site will know who they are reading about.
What Is Gather? Gather Is For People Who Love To Write
Gather is a social networking site for writers, authors, photographers, bloggers and others. Gather is a great site for sharing stories, writing articles and connecting with other talented people. Find like minded people and share your zest for something you feel passionate about.
Give hi5 a High Five in Social Networking
This social networking site is called hi5 and it's got everything. Forums, groups, chat rooms, photo albums, music and videos. Send other people messages and add them to your friends list. Design your profile page with the background and colors you want using either CSS or the editor provided for you by hi5. Organize your friends with circles and organize your photos with the photo album.
Hurox Has It All For You, Everything In One Place
Hurox is many things. They are a social networking site where you can come an meet new friends or find old ones. They are a website host where you can create your own website using drag and drop creating and editing. They are a photo album service that you can use to host all your photos and share them with your family.
Make Friends and Earn Almonds on iAlmond
iAlmond is a social networking site that lets you add lots of photos and even has a complete photo album that you can use to upload and organize your photos. Use the iAlmond journal to tell your profile's readers about you and what you like to do. If you want to keep your profile, photo album or journal private you can set your privacy settings to private.
Live Mocha: Learn a Language, Make Friends
Now's your chance to learn a new language and meet people from around the world at the same time. Learning a language using Live Mocha it really easy. Each lesson offers you six different ways to learn the phrases in that lesson. By the time you're finished with the lesson you've learned the new phrases.
Meet Friends on Orkut
Orkut is a social networking site where you can meet new friends and keep in touch with them by adding them to your friends list or joining the same communities as them. Add photos to your Orkut photo album on top of the photo you add to your Orkut profile. There are lots of different communities you can join in Orkut so you can find friends who like the same things you like.
Control Your Finances With Wesebe
Create your own Wesebe Web site and get tips from other Wesebe members on how you can save money. Upload information from your financial accounts, add tags to them (like del.icio.us) and then create financial goals (like 43things). Then get tips based on your tips and goals. Create your own tips to help other people too.
Accomplish Your Goals With The Help of 43Things
Set your goals and accomplish them with the help of 43Things. 43Things is a social networking site for people who have goals in their life and want to see those goals through. By writing about your goals and seeing what other's have written about the same goal on 43Things you may get the help you need and make new friends at the same time.
Newblog, a New Way To Blog
As far as social networking sites go Newblog is very basic. The photo album is limited and finding friends is not made easy. The blog on the other hand is fabulous. You can even break your blog entries into categories which is a unique characteristic among social networking sites.
22 Reasons to Plurk (in no particular order)
Plurk is a mini blogging social networking site, sort of like Twitter, but it's more than that. All the posts of all the people you're following can be found on your profile's timeline. Photos and videos can be added to your posts and direct messages can be done too. Plurk is truly unique, and a great way to get to know other people online.
Athlete Focus for Action Athletes
If you are involved in an action sport such as snow skiing, snowboarding, cycling, BMX, surfing, motocross, mountain biking, skateboarding, triathlon, water skiing or wake boarding then this is the social networking site for you. Show off your skills and accomplishments and make connections with other athletese that like the same sport you like. Find coaches and even sponsors too.
SponsorHouse, Where Athletes and Sponsors Meet
If you are an athlete, sports fan, or a brand looking for athletes to sponsor then check out SponsorHouse. Photos, video, calendar, search for sponsors, rate photos and videos, post comments, blog, build a Web site with your own domain and all your information from your SponsorHouse profile. Let sponsors find you and build a community of athletes, sponsors, brands, fans and more.
Stickam - Social Networking With Live Webcams
Now you can meet other people and watch with live streaming video at the same time. Stickam is a social networking site that lets you put up your own live webcam and chat with each other. You can also browse the site and see who's online and maybe do some people watching. You need to know a little about adding a webcam though. The instructions are not that clear.
Affluence.org - List Your Event, Promote a Charity
Mix and mingle with other affluent people while you promote a charity or other event.
Amazee - social change and civic responsibility
"Amazee is a great place to organize and engage members to act on specific projects."
Bebo
Stay in touch with your friends from college, make new friends or just hang out.
Bounty Fishing
Like fishing? Come meet other fishermen. Compete in tournaments.
CafeMom - Social Networking for Moms
A social networking site that lets moms keep in touch with other moms and talk about all things mom.
Cherry Tap Online Pub
"CherryTAP.com is a new website that provides a hangout for 20 & 30-somethings worldwide. CherryTAP is the Internet's first and only "online pub" - giving users all the unique nuances of a pub and much more, all from the comfort of a home computer or laptop."
College Tonight
"This site uniquely asks its user to get away from the screen and turn their interface to face-to-face. It's a national site that works on a local scale. Members can: Gather friends into an 'entourage', Plan 'hook-ups', Create their own social calendar, Even make 'drunk dials'."
Connected-Women.com - for the Woman Entrepreneurs
"Her passion is to coach professional businesswomen, empower them to excel in the leadership role while building their business."
Facebox - Social Networking
Get a Facebox a profile, add pictures and write your own Facebox blog. Share music too and make lots of friends.
Fatdoor - Get to Know Your Neighbors
"It's a community networking service that brings together familiar social networking elements such as profiles, intra-personal connections, group networking and information sharing -- but it's centered around local neighborhoods. Combining geo-spatial information, interest mapping and user-generated content creates its rich user experience." ~Katie from Fatdoor
Favorang - Need a Favor?
"Favorang facilitates the favor economy and enables the exchange of favors between previously unconnected people. It's built on the on the concept of indirect reciprocity: I help you and somebody else helps me. Favorang helps users quickly build reputations for giving and then leverage that reputation to get the help they need."
FirstWivesWorld - For Women Facing Divorce
"The cutting-edge site lets members start discussion groups, post blogs, and search out and find one another via a host of details in common – such as zip code, divorce stage and age range – in order to start growing a special network of support as well as new social and business opportunities."
Flixter - Share Movie Ratings
" Flixster is a free site that lets you share movie ratings with friends and meet other people with similar movie taste. Its also got tons of videos, quizzes, photos, actor profiles and such." by tina rees
Friend Monkey
Meet new friends on Friend Monkey.
FriendShopper - Shopping Advice
"featuring easy ways to share content and interact similar to in-person shopping. It is the first site to offer the social perks of shopping in real-time on the web. With FriendShopper, users can manipulate integrated social tools like instant messaging and content sharing in a highly targeted environment to simulate the live shopping experience."
Fubar
This site dubs itself as "the first online bar and happy hour."
Galeax Online Community
"You can create one or several different avatars with graphic or animated nickname, photos. Create own Voice/Video chat room with many features such as graphics or animated logo, online games, draw board, background music, file transfer, photo gallery and more."
IMVU: 3D Avatar Chat
Get rooms, furniture to decorate your rooms and clothes for your avatar. Hang out with your friends online and chat.
Konnects - The Place for Professional Networking
Establish and join networking communities, manage customer base, generate revenue, chat and more. All you need to network for your business.
Layoff MoveOn - For Those Looking for a Job
"An interactive community resource and multi-faceted support network for the unemployed."
Let Simon Decide
Get help making those hard decisions in your life. Then share your decision with other people so they can benefit from your wisdom. See decisions other people are trying to make and even comment on decisions that have been made.
LinkedIn
Social networking for grown ups. Find jobs, make connections or just make new friends.
MeetingWave.com - Set Up Business Meetings
"It helps businesspeople set up public meetings in cities where they work or to which they're traveling to make new business connections offline."
Minti
Parenting social networking site. If you are a parent you can get advice from other parents here.
MyBlogLog
Network with other bloggers.
MyHeritage - Free Family Tree
"helps families research their history and stay connected, including Smart Matching and automatic photo tagging."
MyYearbook.com
A way to create a yearbook for your class online, and you won't have to spend $80 bucks like the ones the school sells you.
Nexo
"Nexo.com is a free and easy online service for groups that combines rich website creation, integrated email communications, social networking and real-time group collaboration in a secure environment."
Ning
Create your own social networking site within this social networking site.
OddPodz - For the Creative Class
If you're one of those people with a creative side then this social networking site is for you. "Oddpodz, a global nation for creative people such as artists, photographers, actors, writers, producers, chefs and others announced the opening of its virtual Muzeum, making the online destination a fully functioning social and e-commerce network for its citizens."
OffsetX.com
"OffsetX allows participants to "offset" the actions and support provided by enthusiasts of opposing interests and opinions through their own actions and the creation of related OffsetX Web sites."
OurStory.com
Write, save and share stories about yourself on this social networking site.
PalTalk - Free Video Chat
Chat online and meet new friends using free video chat.
People Jam
Post your goals and get help with them or post a success and help other's reach their goals. Write a story about how you achieved your goal. "In addition to having a community encouraging you to accomplish your goal, you would have the added benefit of having written down your desire in a concrete format for yourself and for others to see"
Planypus
"(Planypus) for making plans with my friends. You can export events to facebook, outlook, ical, rss, even twitter. Since Planypus is the only place on the web your friends can actually help you plan the event instead of having to come up with all the details yourself, this beats the pants off of anything else."
ProfileHeaven
"Profileheaven is a UK based social network focused on community interaction and fun. You can create a very customized profile suited to your needs and find new and existing friends."
Second Life - Virtual World
"Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 3,757,786 people from around the globe."
Six Degrees
Raise money, support and awareness for a charity that's important to you on this social networking site.
Spanglish
"Social networking site for people learning Spanish, aprende ingles. Meet new friends, haz amigos. subscríbete gratuitamente. Plus podcasts, blogs, eventos, y mucho mas!"
Sportsvite
Athletes can set up profiles on this social networking site and meet other athletes and build connections. "Sportsvite (www.sportsvite.com) is the premier web service for connecting recreational athletes and organizing leagues, teams and games. Sportsvite is a free service for its members."
Spout
Social networking site for people who love movies and everything about movies.
Stockpickr
"Stockpickr is a free online social networking community combined with amateur stock picks and professional stock portfolios. Stockpickr offers free access to a huge professional portfolio collection to help you make sound investment and trading decisions... commentary, a discussion forum and an interesting blog alongside many other unique features."
StreetAdvisor
Write a review about your street and neighborhood and then see what other people have to say about your street and neighborhood.
StudyBlue - Study Aid With Facebook Support
"Allows you to chat with your professor, make flashcards, find the perfect tutor, study with classmates, and get free class notes."
TokBox - Free Video Chat
"Different than any other video chat available today, TokBox is the only free, many-to-many, really simple, browser-based video chat and video message service that anyone with an Internet connection and a web-cam can use." ~
TokBox - Free Video Chat
"Different than any other video chat available today, TokBox is the only free, many-to-many, really simple, browser-based video chat and video message service that anyone with an Internet connection and a web-cam can use." ~heidi groshelle
Tokoni - Share Your Story
"Tokoni is a social media community where people share their diverse stories of life experiences to entertain, inform, influence and inspire others."
Travel Mob - Make Big Plans
"Travelmob lets you create a trip homepage, invite people, manage RSVPs, upload important files, create a photo gallery, see top tours for your destination, and plan via message board. There's a Facebook-style newsfeed that shows what everyone on your trip's doing."
Track and Fitness
Get fit with the help of Track and Fitness, a social networking site geared to help you get in shape.
vSocial.com - Video Social Networking
"vSocial has created a platform and suite of services that enables individuals and companies to create their own You-Tube-like sites. For consumers, this means more integrated marketing and brand interaction... a groundbreaking new function for user-generated content."
Wayn.com
Log your trips wherever you go and find out who else is there or has been there.
WeHangHere.com
Find out who hangs out where you hang out with this social networking map.
Wixi.com - Share Your Media
"A Web-based desktop where users interact with each other by privately sharing media content, including photos, audio and video."
XIHA Life - world's first truly multilingual social network
"allowing millions of exchange students, expatriates, and multilingual and multicultural users living outside their home countries to build global neighborhoods that let them communicate in nearly 50 languages – all from within a single account. "
Yellow Pin - Socialize From Anywhere
"Launching first on Facebook and next week on MySpace, socializers can now update their selected friends or groups via the application online to show where they are and what they are doing or, when using a mobile phone, by simply sending a text message to 555888 with their location."
Youmeo - Bring Your Favorite Sites Together
"YouMeO users will be able to manage multiple social network profiles (including Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Lastfm and YouTube amongst others) within a single location, also allowing users to integrate their existing actions - such as to Digg a news story - into YouMeO."
Yuwie.com - The Social Network That Pays
Get paid to social network. The more you use Yuwie, the more you get paid.
Zorpia - Truely Global
"...goal of bringing people together from all over the world and allowing them to share their ideas and interests. The primary features are the photo album, online journal, social networking, customized homepage, comment system and discussion forum."

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