Social Communities/Networks

“Online communities/networks are bodies of people joined together by a desire to connect and share their common interests.”

When one thinks about social media, the first thing that pops into most people minds is Facebook or Twitter. Social Networks are those places where a person can create a profile, add friends, share stories, add your own media and a growing number of people are starting to understand the value of relationships when it comes to blogging and business.Instead of reinventing the wheel and listing every single social network one can find We will show you our favorite social networks as well as some of social networks that target very specific niches.

ON Our Favorite Communities

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site with more than 60 million registered users. Instead of inviting people to be friends, members invite others to be connections.

Facebook

Facebook is a social networking website — a gathering spot, to connect with your friends and with your friends friends. Facebook allows you to make new connections who share a common interest, expanding your personal network. Anyone over the age of 13 with a valid e-mail address (and not residing in one of the countries where it is banned) can become a Facebook user.

Twitter

Twitter is a social network aiming to enable its users to exchange news and opinions mostly concerning specific topics. The users send and receive messages known as tweets which are text based posts ( micro blog) of up to 140 characters.

YouTube

YouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos.The wide variety of site content includes movie and TV clips and music videos, as well as content such as videoblogging made by bloggers, entrepreneurs. The Social network aspect is where one can make comments on videos as well as being able to have a personal profile page called a “channel page” which enables others to become your friends.

Amplify

Amplify gives you the easiest way to clip, share and spark conversation about articles, blog posts or anything else you read on the web. Amplify offers a unique way to learn from others and engage in a meaningful conversation.

Plaxo

Plaxo is a unified, smart address book that helps you stay in touch with your valuable work and personal contacts.

Google Buzz

Google Buzz is a social networking and messaging tool from Google, designed to integrate into the company’s web-based email program, Gmail. Users can share links, photos, videos, status messages and comments organized in “conversations” and visible in the user’s inbox.

Multiply

Multiply is a social network targeted for the “real” person and offers blogging, photo sharing, book and movie reviews, with an emphasis on sharing these not with the public at large, but with your friends and family.

Ryze

Ryze.com is a free social networking website designed to link business professionals, particularly new entrepreneurs. The site has received a large number of positive media mentions in publications including forbes.com, Newsday, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, USA Today and others.

On the Next Page You will find specialty social Networks that you may find interesting

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