Name
|
Registered users
|
Description
|
Google+
|
1,600,000,000
|
General Business promotion
|
Facebook
|
1,280,000,000
|
General: Photos, Videos, Blogs, Apps.
|
Youtube
|
1,000,000,000
|
video sharing
|
Qzone
|
480,000,000
|
General.
In Simplified Chinese; caters for mainland China users
|
Sina Weibo
|
300,000,000
|
Social
microblogging site in Mainland China.
|
Habbo
|
268,000,000
|
General
for teens. Over 31 communities worldwide. Chat room and user profiles.
|
Vkontakte
|
249,409,900
|
General,
including music upload, listening and search. Popular in Russia and former
Soviet republics.
|
LinkedIn
|
200,000,000
|
Business
and professional networking
|
Renren
|
160,000,000
|
Significant
site in China. Was known as 校内 (Xiaonei) until August 2009.
|
Instagram
|
150,000,000
|
A photo and video sharing site
|
Bebo
|
117,000,000
|
General
|
Orkut
|
100,000,000
|
General.
Owned by Google Inc. Popular in India and Brazil.[225]
|
Tagged
|
100,000,000
|
General.
|
Netlog
|
95,000,000
|
General.
Popular in Europe, Turkey, the Arab World and Canada's Québec province.
Formerly known as Facebox and Redbox.[212]
|
Twitter
|
93,800,000
|
General. Micro-blogging, RSS, updates
|
Friendster
|
90,000,000
|
General.
Popular in Southeast Asia. No longer popular in the western world
|
hi5
|
80,000,000
|
General.
Popular in Nepal, Mongolia, Thailand, Romania, Jamaica, Central
Africa, Portugal andLatin America. Not very popular in
the USA.
|
Pinterest
|
70,000,000
|
photo sharing
|
Flixster
|
63,000,000
|
Movies
|
MyLife
|
51,000,000
|
Locating
friends and family, keeping in touch (formerly Reunion.com)
|
Classmates.com
|
50,000,000
|
School, college, work and the military
|
Plaxo
|
50,000,000
|
Aggregator
|
Sonico.com
|
50,000,000
|
General.
Popular in Latin America and Spanish and Portuguese speaking regions.
|
douban
|
46,850,000
|
Chinese
Web 2.0 website providing user review and recommendation services for movies,
books, and music.
|
Odnoklassniki
|
45,000,000
|
Connect
with old classmates. Popular in Russia and former Soviet republics
|
Viadeo
|
35,000,000
|
Global
Social Networking and Campus Networking available in English, French, German,
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
|
Flickr
|
32,000,000
|
Photo sharing, commenting, photography related
networking, worldwide
|
Last.fm
|
30,000,000
|
Music
|
MyHeritage
|
30,000,000
|
family-oriented
social network service
|
Myspace
|
30,000,000
|
General
|
WeeWorld
|
30,000,000
|
Teenagers
- 9 to 17
|
Xanga
|
27,000,000
|
Blogs
and "metro" areas
|
mixi
|
24,323,160
|
Japan
|
Cyworld
|
24,000,000
|
General.
Popular in South Korea.
|
Gaia Online
|
23,523,663
|
Anime and
games. Popular in USA, Canada and Europe. Moderately popular around Asia.
|
deviantART
|
22,000,000
|
Art
community
|
Skyrock
|
22,000,000
|
Social
Network in French-speaking world
|
BlackPlanet
|
20,000,000
|
Black
Americans
|
Fotolog
|
20,000,000
|
Photoblogging.
Popular in South America and Spain
|
Foursquare
|
20,000,000
|
Location based mobile social network
|
StumbleUpon
|
20,000,000
|
Stumble through websites that match users'
selected interests
|
We Heart It
|
20,000,000
|
Image-based
social network focused on inspiration, expression and creativity
|
Friends Reunited
|
19,000,000
|
UK
based. School, college, work, sport and streets
|
Reddit
|
17,500,000
|
submit content, such as text posts or direct
links
|
LiveJournal
|
17,564,977
|
Blogging.
Popular in Russia and among the Russian-speaking diaspora abroad.
|
StudiVZ
|
17,000,000
|
University
students, mostly in the German-speaking countries. School students and those
out of education sign up via its partner sites schülerVZ and meinVZ.
|
Geni.com
|
15,000,000
|
Families,
genealogy
|
Goodreads
|
13,000,000
|
Library
cataloging, book lovers
|
Busuu
|
12,000,000
|
Language
learning community (headquartered in Madrid, Spain)
|
Tuenti
|
12,000,000
|
Spanish-based university
and High School social network.
|
XING
|
11,100,000
|
Business
(primarily Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland))
|
Nasza-klasa.pl
|
11,000,000
|
School,
college and friends. Popular in Poland
|
Taringa!
|
11,000,000
|
General
(primarily Argentina)
|
Hyves
|
10,097,000
|
General,
mostly popular in the Netherlands.
|
Buzznet
|
10,000,000
|
Music
and pop-culture
|
SoundCloud
|
10,000,000
|
Repository
of original music pieces and networking.
|
WAYN
|
10,000,000
|
Travel
and lifestyle
|
Care2
|
9,961,947
|
Green living
and social activism
|
CaringBridge
|
9,500,000
|
Not for
profit providing free websites that connect family and friends during a
serious health event, care and recovery.[34]
|
Stickam
|
9,000,000
|
Live
video streaming and chat.
|
delicious
|
8,822,921
|
Social
bookmarking allowing users to locate and save websites that match their own
interests
|
My Opera
|
7,300,000
|
Blogging,
mobile blogging, photo sharing, connecting with friends, Opera
Link and Opera Unite. Global
|
About.me
|
5,000,000
|
Social
networking site
|
Livemocha
|
5,000,000
|
Online
language learning
|
Open Diary
|
5,000,000
|
First
online blogging community, founded in 1998
|
Trombi.com
|
4,400,000
|
French
subsidiary of Classmates.com
|
iWiW
|
4,000,000
|
Hungary
|
weRead
|
4,000,000
|
Books
|
Ibibo
|
3,500,000
|
Talent
based social networking site that allows to promote one's self and also
discover new talent. Most popular in India.
|
43 Things
|
3,000,000
|
Goal
setting and achievement
|
Jiepang
|
3,000,000
|
Location
based mobile social network. In Chinese language
|
MocoSpace
|
3,000,000
|
mobile
community, worldwide
|
Ravelry
|
3,000,000
|
Knitting
and crochet
|
Tylted
|
3,000,000
|
Mobile
social game network[303]
|
CouchSurfing
|
2,967,421
|
Worldwide
network for making connections between travelers and the communities they
visit.
|
Fetlife
|
2,701,715
|
People
who are into BDSM
|
Draugiem.lv
|
2,600,466
|
General
(primarily LV, LT, HU)
|
eToro
|
2,500,000
|
Social
Investing, Finance
|
Itsmy
|
2,500,000
|
Mobile
community worldwide, blogging, friends, personal TV-shows
|
Kiwibox
|
2,400,000
|
General.
|
DXY.cn
|
2,000,000
|
Chinese
online community for physicians, health care professionals, pharmacies and
facilities
|
GetGlue
|
2,000,000
|
Social
network for entertainment
|
Grono.net
|
2,000,000
|
Poland
|
Vampirefreaks.com
|
1,931,049
|
Gothic
and industrial subculture
|
Fotki
|
1,632,565
|
Photo
sharing, video hosting, photo contests, journals, forums, flexible privacy
protection, friend's feed, audio comments and unlimited custom design integration.
|
English, baby!
|
1,600,000
|
Students
and teachers of English as a second language
|
TravBuddy.com
|
1,588,000
|
Travel
|
Nexopia
|
1,400,000
|
Canada
|
LibraryThing
|
1,300,000
|
Book
lovers
|
CafeMom
|
1,250,000
|
Mothers
|
Zoo.gr
|
890,000
|
Greek
Web Meeting point
|
Focus.com
|
850,000
|
Business
to Business, worldwide
|
aSmallWorld
|
550,000
|
European jet
set and social elite world-wide
|
IRC-Galleria
|
505,000
|
Finland
|
italki.com
|
500,000
|
Language
learning social network. 100+ languages.
|
ReverbNation.com
|
500,000
|
Social
network for musician and bands
|
Ryze
|
500,000
|
Business
|
Gather.com
|
465,000
|
Article,
picture, and video sharing, as well as group discussions
|
MillatFacebook
|
461,200
|
General,
Created in Response to Facebook [192]
|
Cross.tv
|
450,000
|
Faith
Based social network for Christian believers from around the world
|
SocialVibe
|
435,000
|
Social
Network for Charity
|
Biip.no
|
430,000
|
Norwegian
community
|
Skoob
|
420,000
|
Collaborative
social network for Brazilian readers
|
Identi.ca
|
395,695
|
Twitter-like
service popular with hackers and software freedom advocates.
|
Diaspora*
|
370,000
|
Decentralized,
privacy aware, general (open source)
|
Indaba Music
|
350,000
|
Online
collaboration for musicians, remix contests, and networking.
|
Hospitality Club
|
328,629
|
Hospitality
|
Partyflock
|
321,125
|
Dutch virtual
community for people interested in house music and other electronic dance
music
|
GamerDNA
|
310,000
|
Computer
and video games
|
Travellerspoint
|
310,000
|
Travel
|
FilmAffinity
|
250,000
|
Movies
and TV Series
|
LaiBhaari
|
250,000
|
Marathi
social networking
|
Academia.edu
|
211,000
|
Social
networking site for academics/researchers
|
didlr
|
204,515
|
Drawing
service
|
Faceparty
|
200,000
|
General.
Popular UK.
|
Mubi
|
200,000
|
Auteur
cinema
|
HR.com
|
194,000
|
Social
networking site for Human Resources professionals
|
Elftown
|
185,000
|
Community
and wiki around Fantasy and sci-fi.
|
Stage 32
|
175,000
|
US-based
social network and educational site for creative professionals in film,
television and theater
|
CozyCot
|
150,000
|
East
Asian and Southeast Asian women
|
Athlinks
|
139,458
|
Running,
Swimming
|
Goodwizz
|
110,000
|
Social
network with matchmaking and personality games to find new contacts. Global,
based in France.
|
PatientsLikeMe
|
109,587
|
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.
|
Gays.com
|
100,000
|
Social
network for LGBT community, Guide for LGBT bars,
restaurants, clubs, shopping
|
Blogster
|
85,579
|
Blogging community
|
Elixio
|
80,000
|
Business
executives jet set and global elite.
|
Hotlist
|
80,000
|
Geo-Social
Aggregator rooted in the concept of knowing where users' friends are, were,
and will be.
|
Wiser.org
|
71,600
|
Online
community space for the social justice and environmental movement[326]
|
WriteAPrisoner.com
|
66,000
|
Site
networking inmates, friends, family
|
Zooppa
|
60,000
|
Online
Community for Creative Talent (host of brand sponsored advertising contests)
|
Fuelmyblog
|
50,000
|
Blogging community
|
Dol2day
|
40,200
|
Politic
community, Social network, Internet radio (German-speaking countries)
|
Hub Culture
|
20,000
|
Global
influencers focused on worth creation
|
NGO Post
|
15,000
|
Non-Profit
news sharing and networking, mainly in India
|
Frühstückstreff
|
14,800
|
General
|
Advogato
|
13,575
|
Free and open
source software developers
|
Poolwo
|
12,350
|
Social
networking site from India
|
The Sphere
|
1,300
|
A
Private Online Social Luxury Network with Exclusive Personalized Services
|