Meetup is an online social networking portal that facilitates offline group meetings in various localities around the world. Meetup allows members to find and join groups unified by a common interest, such as politics, books, games, movies, health, pets, careers or hobbies. Users enter their postal code or their city and the topic they want to meet about, and the website helps them arrange a place and time to meet. Topic listings are also available for users who only enter a location.
Ask.fm is a Latvia-based social networking website where users can ask other users questions, with the option of anonymity. The site was launched on June 16, 2010
Tagged is a social discovery website based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2004. It allows members to browse the profiles of other members, play games, and share tags and virtual gifts.
Myspace (stylized as myspace, previously stylized as MySpace) is a social networking service with a strong music emphasis owned by Specific Media LLC and pop music singer and actor Justin Timberlake. Myspace was launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.
Myspace was founded in 2003 by Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson.
MeetMe (formerly MyYearbook) is a social networking service founded in 2005.
MeetMe was initially created as myYearbook by two high school students, Dave and Catherine Cook, and Dave’s older brother Geoff, during Spring Break of 2005.
In June 2012, myYearbook was renamed MeetMe. This change is due to the fact that “Yearbook” means more about meeting friends from the past while “MeetMe” will give the meaning of users making new friends, which is what the website is intended for.
Classmates.com is a social networking service created in 1995by Randy Conrads who founded Classmates Online, Inc.
The social media website was originally designed to assist members in finding friends and classmates from kindergarten, primary school, high school, college, work and the United States military. In 2010, CEO Mark Goldston described the transition of the website “to increasingly focus on nostalgic content” such as “high school yearbooks, movie trailers, music tracks, and photographic images.” To this end, and to appeal more to older users, the website name was changed to Memory Lane, which included a website redesign.
Flickr (pronounced “flicker”) is an image hosting and video hosting website, and web services suite that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, and effectively an online community, the service is widely used by photo researchers and by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media.
VK (Originally VKontakte, Russian: ВКонтакте, literally “in touch”) is the second largest social network service in Europe after Facebook. It is available in several languages, but particularly popular among Russian-speaking users around the world, especially in Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Belarus, and Israel.
Like other social networks, VK allows users to message contacts publicly or privately, create groups, public pages and events, share and tag images, audio and video, and play browser-based games
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking service. Founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking.
The site is available in 20 languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Czech, Polish, Korean, Indonesian, Malay, and Tagalog