Continuing the topic social networks, raised by me the other day (by the way, if you haven’t read the post about Russian social networks), I offer you a translation of the article “33 places to hang out in the era of social networks,” published on the rev2.org blog. The article is an impressive list of foreign social networks and gives a good insight into this rapidly growing market. Over the past two years, the popularity of social networks has increased significantly. Everyone can find a network to their liking; there are networks for dogs, parents, book lovers and shopaholics. In my opinion, it is very useful and interesting to spend time on social networks. It is because of the growing interest in social networks that I created this list. I think that it will be useful for those who, despite existing profiles on MySpace or Bebo, are ready to look for something new and interesting.
The content has a good “binding”
This is one important tip here. And for watching a video, reading an audiobook for a book or reading e-book It requires not only much more time, but also the appropriate mood. Also, don't forget that people often visit social networks using mobile devices, such as lunch, while traveling or just waiting in line. And in such situations it is not very convenient to view broader information.
Therefore your the main task- create a desire to save valuable information for the “future”. Sets are very useful for combining according to themes and different formats. It is very unhelpful and unhelpful to put videos, articles, music and other book in one post.
Please note that I did not include in the list services focused on social bookmarking, as well as systems “with a hint” of social networks (YouTube or Flickr). I have also divided the list into two categories - general and special. The list covers only those services that are available to a wide range of users (no closed beta by invitation).
On almost every active user's social media wall, one can find at least some of the user's expressions that coincide with the user's world view. Quotes are a way to quickly convey as if it were a useful, intelligent idea. This is “fast food” for the brain because quotes are read by people immediately, without delay until later.
Surprisingly, most social network users believe that quotes on their walls tell a story about them, which creates a certain image. Like clothes mobile phone or watch. Thus, citations are simply an element of social status. Therefore, do not overestimate the quotes in your environment. Quotes, of course, should be thematic. For example, if you belong to a group of freelancers, then you probably won't want to motivate quotes about business, money, etc.
MySpace is the largest social network in the world. It conquered the United States with tremendous speed; MySpace now has about 80 million users. In 2005, it was bought by Newscorp for $580 million. MySpace continues to grow rapidly and this moment It is precisely this that determines the development paths of social networks.
It is advisable to place quotes as a beautiful picture. Having such a template will require replacing the text. They also like to save people so they don't give in. For example, “5 ways to lose weight by summer”, “10 rules of a beautiful woman”, “15 places to visit”, etc.
The points may be longer than the article, but each is described by several statements. Sometimes you can't even record. For example, “Best Books” or “Movies That Will Change Your Attitude” lists have been flying around social media for years. Typically, these lists are dominated by well-known classics that no one has read, but every smart person gives the impression that they have.
Bebo - unlike the Americanized MySpace, Bebo is designed for other English-speaking countries such as England, Australia and New Zealand. Bebo is very similar in functionality to MySpace. Initially, Bebo was created in order to communicate between friends, but subsequently the network has grown and currently has about 40 million users.
Recommended for: teenagers, young adults
How much content is rated on social media?
Of course, these are not all the most read expressions of content that can be successfully used on social networks. You can also publish mini-articles. Create photo collections, read puzzles, tell stories, and more.
Most importantly, don't hide social media on your blog or personal website. A blog or website is the most important piece of small, easy-to-read information that can be skimmed at a glance and accessed quickly. Share it on social networks. Control public information - when you publish or publish information about yourself on a social network, you must understand that information posted on a social network becomes accessible to almost anyone. The most popular networks have the ability to control what information is available to everyone, only to people on your friends lists, etc. but aren't all the people in your social media friends really who they are?
Tagworld – founded in the fall of 2005. Direct competitor to MySpace. It stands out for its excellent implementation of Web 2.0 (tagging, AJAX). Tagworld also has a search engine for music and an IM client with video chat capabilities.
Recommended for: teenagers, young adults
Orkut is a product created by a Google programmer in his free time (You know, every Google programmer has the right to spend 20% of his working time on his own projects). Orkut began its development in the USA, but subsequently became widespread in Brazil (about 65% of users).
Recommended for: Brazilian youth.
Don't spread "inconvenient" information - perhaps you were at a party and were shot in an "inconvenient" position, you may have been captured by a beautiful friend - there can be many reasons and situations, but sharing some things is not necessary. It's important to remember that what happens online stays online. Digital information is different than usual: it can be copied or distributed at impressive speeds. Often the author of such material uploads it to share with friends, but the friends share with their friends and the chain expands at a rapid pace - if the author of the image realizes their mistake, they may try to remove the uploaded material, but they have already made a copy of the material and started distributing it further .
AIM pages – The youngest social network among the most popular. This is AOL's attempt to supplant MySpace in the social networking market. It was believed that AIM Pages would be a real breakthrough, but it still has a long way to go.
Recommended for: teenagers, young adults
Hi5 has about 40 million users. You have to pay to participate in this social network. One of distinctive features system is that you can download music from iTunes for money and add it to your profile. On free account You can upload a whole gigabyte of photos. Hi5 has profiles for Kelly Clarkson, Jessica Simpson, and Tyra Banks.
Recommended for: teenagers, young adults
Find out what the Internet knows about you - periodically, for the sake of interest and benefit, it is worth checking what the Internet knows about you. It's not difficult, just find your name, nickname or nickname in a popular search engine and evaluate the results with the idea that anyone who searches for your information will see the exact same results. Often, various organizations upload personal data into the public space for convenience, e.g. schools may publish lists of clusters with schedules or the like. Therefore, anyone who is familiar with information about you can use it for their own purposes: for example, by e-mail.
Panjea is a social network with an economy founded this year. Offers several ways to get paid for your creative work. There is a unique points system.
Recommended for: teenagers, young adults
Cyworld appeared in Korea and grew to phenomenal proportions. The daily income of this network is about $300,000. Cyworld is now gradually expanding to the US. The network has its own currency (acorns), and each user also has his own “minihompy” (profile). Users can decorate their "minihompy" and keep in touch with each other.
Recommended for: teenagers, young adults, Koreans
A hacker searching the Internet will likely find the answer and gain access to your email. Don't click on suspicious links - hackers distribute links to malicious sites using social networks. For example, your network friend's computer was infected with malware. Malicious program can use your friend's social network account for further expansion - i.e. send a friend's name with a link that is "worth a look." Another way to spread malware on social networks is to offer a lot of deceptive features: “Click this link and see who viewed your profile,” “click this link to see your friends’ hidden photos,” etc.
Tagged – intended mainly for teenagers. The main idea is to be tagged, create tagging teams and earn points in order to become the coolest tagging team. Tagging is slowly gaining popularity among teenagers in the United States, but is always secondary compared to MySpace.
Recommended for: teenagers
Each social network offers a variety of profile settings that control what and how much of your public information can be seen. Also, don't forget to log out of your account using a stranger or a public computer, and even better, using it on your own computer and network. Dopamine is considered the hormone of happiness because it is responsible for a state of satisfaction, which is very important for a person’s internal motivation. This hormone is released from the body when we experience pleasant body sensations, eat delicious food, smell like ourselves, enjoy passionate love, or drink alcohol.
Popist is very similar to MySpace, both in interface and focus. Offers users a large number of open features such as the ability to integrate with other social networks.
Recommended for: teenagers
Friendster, one of the first networks launched as a “social experiment”, just recently acquired a “social networking” patent. The network has grown very quickly, but today it has completely fallen and currently occupies less than 1% of the social networking market.
Recommended for: teenagers
Interestingly, this hormone is also produced when we think a lot about ourselves, talk and tell others. This is why the online space has become a chef's kitchen, the best room for aromas and a passionate solace and satisfying space for many.
Our brains are much more active when we are thinking or talking about ourselves than when we are listening to another person. It's interesting that direct communication gives us twice as much less opportunity express and rely on themselves than to communicate in the web space. This is why a person using social networks, when it comes to self-realization, so to speak, becomes more dependent on them than someone whose questionnaire is not constantly being added to.
Tribe - NBC recently acquired this network. The main task of Tribe is not so much in dating and communication, but in uniting users’ own social networks. Provides the opportunity to create so-called “clans”, and is also very well localized due to these same clans.
Recommended for: teenagers
Then you are healed of self-dependence. Let's look at social media from a relationship perspective. According to psychologist and art therapist Jurgita Dainauskaitė-Šileijėne, too much concentration on oneself negatively affects the relationships of married couples, not only in reality, but also on social networks. It is cyberspace that gives him the opportunity to pay a lot of attention, which only increases his need. It's like you're becoming intractable. A person who constantly advertises on social media may no longer receive affectionate attention.
Facebook- a startup from Silicon Valley. Widely used among colleges and universities in most English-speaking countries. It is the second most popular network after MySpace in the United States. This network is not yet available in many countries, but is developing and growing steadily.
ConnectU is very similar to Facebook. Also designed for college and university students. ConnectU, unlike Facebook, covers a much smaller number of colleges and universities around the world.
Recommended for: College and university students
He may begin to seek additional attention from sex workers on social media, and the relationship may eventually end. Couples Networks - Continuous Litigation. Social media is a constant test for couple relationships. Often people do not trust each other; they follow their own advice. Life, and this is what increases the likelihood of betrayal. On the other hand, social networks - great way check whether the person with whom you are creating a relationship is trustworthy.
According to Dainauskaite-Šileikine, young people spend too much time on the Internet and share their thoughts in reality. This complicates their interaction and does not help in the beginning of the relationship. Research shows that those couples who “went” on a first date “online” - i.e. Having met on the Internet, at the beginning of a relationship they agree better than those who actually met for the first time. Because if possible, create a better impression, an image of yourself, a person like him, and not push him.
Yahoo! 360 – launched in early 2005, a Yahoo product that provides the ability to combine blogs and photo albums. Only for those over 18 years old - this significantly reduces the list of potential users.
Recommended for: adults
PeopleAggregator is Marc Canter's attempt to carve out his niche in the social media space. Based on open standards and functionality. One of the distinctive features is that this is just a demo version of the software, which can be purchased later.
Recommended for: adults
Never take a profile photo showing an unattractive body or getting a mommy face if you want to get through social media. Network to look for a life partner. However, these particular relationships rarely happen when they last for a long time, as people create a false impression of each other and overcome disappointment over time.
External modems and cables connecting them are simply a physical expression of our desire to unite. After we communicated a lot and easily. Communication in the family, relatives circle, with friends, colleagues, boyfriend. Driven by new technologies, social networks promised unlimited space with the rest of the world. However, everything turned out to be in the opposite direction - no longer live communication and virtual communication turned out to be cold, plastic frames of field communication. No one came closer to the dream world, but quickly moved away.
MommyBuzz – Launched just a couple of months ago, MommyBuzz is designed to allow moms to connect online, share and exchange thoughts and ideas with other moms. A wonderful place for such a target group.
Recommended: Moms
MuslimSpace - Created by a former computer engineering student at the American University of Sharjah, MuslimSpace lives up to its name - MySpace for Muslims. Today the site has about 15,000 users, and its goal is to be a cleaner and more secure site than MySpace and, of course, only for Muslims.
Recommended: Muslims
The previously natural warmth and lively communication has become a burden for us, a progressive egoism where everyone feels like a growing and unique individual with their own desires, tastes, views, opinions, ideas, knowing that we are dear and just need to hold them. Shop - therefore, avoid communicating with those who think differently. There is no longer a disposition, because all desires and thoughts are set in a unique and valuable memory that remains and natural communication.
Will we create new acquaintances, both business and personal, we can constantly maintain virtual relationships with friends all over the world and life is illuminated with new colors, but this did not happen. We have seen that we can have something, and thousands have spent the acceptable number of friends on all sites, but nothing in our lives will change. The more time you spend on these sites, the more confident you become that there is no connection here. The only reason for these communication networks - share a wide range of photos, links, jokes and collect as many "times" as possible.
Stardoll – Would you like to dress up celebrities as paper dolls? Originally called Paperdoll Heaven, Stardoll does just that. With a strong social network at its core and almost a million users, Stardoll is gaining mega popularity in the world of children and teenagers in much the same way as Neopets did a few years ago.
Recommended for: children/teenagers
Imbee – There are so many sites for teenagers, but what about children? Imbee's goal is to provide a safe and secure social network for children. So now if your big brother is bragging about his MySpace profile and teasing that you can't get one, go to Imbee!
Recommended for: children
Dogster is a place where dogs (and their owners) can meet and socialize. On Dogster, each dog has its own web page. The subtitle reads: post dog photos, tell dog stories, make new dog friends!
Recommended for: dogs and their owners
Catster is practically the twin brother of the Dogster site, developed by the same people, Catster is Dogster for cats. Post photos of cats, tell cat stories, make new friends (cats)! Does anything else need to be explained?
Recommended for: cats and their owners
Fuzzster – Being somewhat of a combination of Dogster and Catster, Fuzzster is the place for your cats, dogs and other furry pets. Launched in early 2004, it has grown to become a fairly large community of animal lovers.
Recommended for: furry animals and their owners
BookCrossing – In the real world, bookcrossing works like this: someone leaves a book in a public place for others to pick up and read, and then do the same. The goal of the BookCrossing site is to launch the same process in the virtual world.
Recommended: Book lovers
Boompa is a site for car enthusiasts, and there are certainly a lot of them on the Internet. The goal of the network is to become your online garage. Car enthusiasts can show off their cars here, find recommendations for improving them, meet other car enthusiasts, view videos and photos, and much more.
Recommended for: car enthusiasts
Spout is a database of over 250,000 movie titles, Spout is a social network for movie fans. Here you can find reviews and recommendations, meet other film fans. Spout is a good place to visit before you rent a movie.
Recommended: Film buffs
MOG is a startup from Silicon Valley, MOG's goal is to unite music lovers with the same interests. A very interesting way to meet new people, and here you can discover new musical trends that you didn’t know about before.
Recommended: for music lovers
Gusto. There are sites about cars, films, music, books, animals, but what about travel? Gusto is precisely a place that unites travelers based on their lifestyle (expressed in preferences). You can also find tons of travel information, recommendations, and reviews here.
Yub.com – combines a social network and shopping. Yub.com's goal is to provide a smart online shopping experience. A "cash back" system is used, where if one user helps another or vice versa, both users have the opportunity to receive CashBack. A fun way to shop.
Recommended for: lovers of (online) shopping
Yelp (from the makers of PayPal) - This site is much like Yub, designed to help shoppers make decisions by showing them reviews from other users. However, unlike Yub, Yelp is more focused on commercial activities and services rather than consumer-facing products. Currently only available in the US.
Recommended for: Any US resident (especially in big cities)
– according to surveys, the most popular business network, the purpose of LinkedIn is to unite colleagues and business partners and help find new ones. With nearly 5 million users, LinkedIn remains popular among business audiences.
Recommended for: mercenaries and businessmen
biddingBuddies – Often on auction sites like eBay you have to deal with a lot of people. BiddingBuddies can help you with this. This is the only social network exclusively for eBay users. Now, if you are participating in an auction, why not make friends with your opponents.
Recommended for: eBay users (buyers and sellers)
Faqqly – There are so many things you'd like to know about your friends, so why not ask them through Faqqly? Faqqly creates an FAQ (frequently asked questions) page for each user and allows friends to ask each other anything.
Recommended for: curious people – teenagers, young people
Most popular networks
The most popular and numerous server is rightfully Facebook. Almost one and a half billion accounts are registered on it. There are more than a billion active participants, these are users from many countries. The service is very convenient, except in English it maintains the official language in almost all countries where it is widely spoken. For example, Facebook is Russified well, many features of the language are taken into account, and it is pleasant to use. Facebook has been operating for 10 years, and in February 2014 it celebrates its anniversary.A year after the launch of Facebook, a new website was launched: Youtube, which is one of the famous video hosting sites. In one day, more than 4 billion videos are viewed on the site, and there are more than a billion registered users.
The popular social network of bloggers is called Tumblr, despite its American origin, it is Russified quite well. Number of users - 140 million.
Discoverers
The first two social networks in the world were opened: QQ in China and LinkedIn in the USA, this happened in 2003. QQ is a messaging service similar to ICQ, but it was created in the form of a social network. There are more than 300 million users around the world, more than half of them are Chinese.But the first American social network LinkedIn was created for businessmen. Job vacancies were published here, company owners and managers looked for partners and studied competitors. Now the network is used by more than 200 million people from all over the world.
The most popular English social network is Badoo. About 200 million accounts are registered on it.
Actively developing
The youngest and most actively developing network is Google+. It was created by Google management in 2011. In just two years, the number of accounts reached 500 million. Although it is known why, all users mailboxes, services from Google automatically received their own account on the social network. The number of active users is only 250 million, that is, half as much.Russian services
The most popular social networks in Russia were opened in 2006. These services are called “VKontakte” and “Odnoklassniki”. If the first network is intended for young people, then the second is created for the older generation. VKontakte has more than 80 million active accounts, more than 300 million page views every day. More than 200 million people are registered on Odnoklassniki, of which about 150 million are active. There are slightly fewer users on the well-known social network Mail.ru - “My World”.The number of users from Russia has been growing in recent years on one popular American site - Twitter. Now the number of tweeters is 200 million. There are more than half a billion users of the site.