Yep, there's more to life than facebook... You may find your kids at some of these sites...
Internet based Social networking - Nowhere near complete.
43 Things
- A tagging based social networking site. Users create accounts and list a number of goals or hopes and these are parsed based on similarity to goals of other users.
Amitize.com
- Amitize is a worldwide friendship network.
aSmallWorld
- aSmallWorld is a private online community designed for individuals who would like to connect, re-connect to share similar thoughts with each other.
Badoo.Com
- Badoo is a dynamic multi-lingual social networking site with innovative photo and video features that allows its users worldwide to gain an instant mass audience and interact both locally and globally.
Bebo
- Bebo is a hugely popular site (especially in the UK), and similar in philosophy to MySpace. It allows users to communicate with their friends in multiple ways including blogging, sending messages and posting pictures.
Eons
- An online gathering place for the elderly; most of the users are over the age of 50 years.
Facebook.com
- Facebook is a social networking phenomenon connection people with their friends, family and other users with similar interests.
Faceparty
- A UK based community social networking website. It started for youngsters but has now risen to popularity among all age groups.
Flingr
- Flingr allows users to connect with all categories of friends – colleagues, college mates and school buddies.
Friendster
- It is a popular global social network for finding new friends and developing friendships as well as searching old friends.
hi5
- Hi5 is a prominent social networking service in India with over 40 million users. However, Hi5 has recently experienced an upsurge beyond India and has shown increasing popularity in EU too.
Lovento
- Lovento allows you to discover news friends and also find information about latest events.
Multiply.com
- Multiply is a social networking website providing easy way to share digital media which includes photos, videos and music.
Mycool
- Mycool enables members to find and share their interests with special groups.
MySpace.com
- MySpace is an interactive social networking website consisting of personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos. It’s currently the biggest social networking site out there, and while it might not be the most advanced one, the users seem to love its simplicity.
NetFriendships.com
- A comprehensive social networking site enabling users to make new online friends and discover old ones.
Netlog
- A social community of more than 20 million young Europeans.
Orkut
- Orkut is a social networking service owned by Google. It enables users to meet new friends and create communities.
Passado
- Passado is Europe’s no.1 re-union website connecting members with friends from school to workplace.
Piczo
- Piczo offers safe social networking environment to youngster around the world. Piczo users can design their personal website with photos, videos etc. and share it with their friends.
Plazes
- A social networking website for connecting with local users.
Pownce.com
- Pownce is a mix of social networking and microblogging. It enables users to send messages, files, events and links with each other.
ProfileHeaven.com
- A UK based social networking site for teenagers.
reunion.com
- A leading online service for discovering old friends, classmates and family members.
Vox.com
- Vox is a social blogging service where users share their ideas, photos, videos with family and friends.
Xanga
- Xanga is one of the biggest social networking platforms with features of sharing photos, photos and videos.
XuQa
- An online college social networking site with poker gaming features.
Mobile Cellular Social Networking.
CrackBerry
- A community dedicated to BlackBerry users.
Dodgeball
- A New York based service facilitating social interactions through mobile phones.
Friendstribe.com
- A mobile phone based social networking site.
GotZapp
- A mobile social network for sharing images, audio and graphics with your friends’ mobile phones.
Groovr
- An ultimate mobile social networking site for staying connected with friends. It is compatible with iPhone.
Jaiku
- Jaiku is essentially a microblogging service with an SMS gateway, very similar to Twitter. They’ve recently been acquired by Google.
Loopt
- Loopt is a cool mobile based friend locator website. It uses GPS to show its users the location of friends by updating maps on mobile handset.
Mixxer
- Mixxer enables users to content on their mobile with site members.
Mobango
- A mobile community service powering users to search for user generated music content, videos and other data.
Mozes
- Mozes enables members to connect & socialize with each other through mobile phones.
Partysync
- Partysync helps users to interact with people using mobiles.
Peepsnation
- Peepsnation allows users with similar interests to connect with each other on location basis.
Rabble
- A location based social networking service for mobile phone users.
Socialight
- Socialight is a mobile based social networking site where users share their travel experiences with other mobile users.
Wattpad
- A mobile phone social networking platform allowing users to discover, read and share their stories with each others.
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