Talk:List of social networking services/Archive 6

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Advice: how to sort and find information in this table

This List has a sortable table. This feature may help you find some information here, without reading the whole table. To "sort" the table based on the contents in a certain column, click on the little symbol with two triangles [inside a square] in any column heading at the top of the table. Then, the symbol should change to a single triangle - pointing upwards or downwards. You can then click again on that [triangle] symbol to toggle the sort order (change ascending to descending order, or vice versa). Or, you can click on a double-triangle symbol, above some other column. For example: it may be useful to sort by Registered users (descending order) or by Global [...] Page ranking [...]. UnitedStatesian (talk) 02:08, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

This bit of advice would be helpful mainly to readers who are not (already) familiar with Wikipedia. Those readers, in most cases, are not here, reading this talk page.

Readers who are somewhat familiar with Wikipedia do exist; that is, those who know what a "Talk:" page is, and know that there is (or, might be) a "Talk:" page for this article, and know how to get to, and how to read, a "Talk:" page if it does exist. However, those "savvy" readers are far less likely to be the target audience for this bit of advice. The readers who need this advice, and could be in a position to benefit from it, are those who [1] do not already know how to use those cute little "symbol with two triangles [inside a square]" buttons, or icons, or whatever they are called; and who [2] also, do not want to read through the whole list, or even a big part of it, but just want to focus on one (or, a few) of the rows in this table.

Almost ZERO percent of such readers will ever see this bit of advice, if it is stuck here on the "Talk:" page! They would be FAR more likely to see it (and, benefit) if it were right there are the top of the [list] article itself, which -- (by the way) -- is right near those cute little "symbol with two triangles [inside a square]" things.

So, I vote for (well, "suggest" or recommend) moving this advice to the top of the article.

My concern is for the usefulness of this [list] article for the typical reader -- who may well be a casual reader, not very familiar with Wikipedia. The current set-up seems to be skewed as if our main goal were to send more [reader] traffic to those sites (or Wikipedia articles about sites) that happen to have names that start with "A" or "B" or "C". I am not arguing this here because of owning any stock in companies that start with "Z" or "Y" or "X" or "W". I just think that those who might have an interest in social networking sites that do start with "A", may have a conflict of interest, and might be ignoring the convenience to the general (typical) reader, in relegating this bit of advice to the "Talk:" page, -- with the result that most readers won't see it, so they will never benefit from it.

Any comments? --Mike Schwartz (talk) 19:24, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Agreed, the social network site I use is EclipseRealm.com . Which would of put it closer to the top if it had been on this list. If the list was in order of most members listed then this would start with myspace most likely. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Socialnetworker (talk • contribs) 03:36, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

an even better suggestion

Actually, this idea might be even better -- (no need to for anyone to even have to read the "advice"!) This idea is for the default to be, having the rows of the matrix sorted (in descending order! [biggest first]) -- according to the column labeled "Registered users". This would improve convenience for most of the readers discussed above (see [1] and [2], in the paragraph that starts out "Readers who"), and this would not inconvenience those readers who do have some level of knowledge about Wikipedia, who might prefer to have the table sorted (say) in ascending order [biggest last], or sorted on some other column. It also would not inconvenience those readers with so much time on their hands, that they intend to read the whole list (table), regardless of the order.

Any comments? --Mike Schwartz (talk) 19:24, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Criteria for Inclusion on List

I understand that a site must have its own separate Wikipedia article before it will be included as part of this list -- that makes sense. But I call into question the requirement that social networking must be a site's primary purpose. I think we should instead simply define the minimum functions which constitute social networking and then agree upon a minimum number of members to merit inclusion in this list. Then if a site meets these criteria, it should be included -- irrespective of whether social networking is primary.

Consider this: What if the social networking area of a site is a secondary function and yet still itself is much larger than other sites whose sole function is social networking? Why should such a site be excluded merely on account that it provides other services as well?

If you wonder how we should go about defining social networking functions, I submit we can use Wikipedia's own article on social networking as the starting point. It says,

Most services are primarily web-based and provide a collection of various ways for users to interact, such as chat, messaging, email, video, voice chat, file sharing, blogging, discussion groups... ....Some social networks have additional features, such as the ability to create groups that share common interests or affiliations, upload videos, and hold discussions in forums. Geosocial networking co-opts internet mapping services to organize user participation around geographic features and their attributes.

Jeff Mincey (talk) 14:11, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Dear All,

Please help me to understand how to add several resources to this table if there are now pages in WIKI completed for these resources yet ... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Niazza (talk • contribs) 17:08, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Facebook MySpace Orkut Twitter LinkedIn

Umm? What happened here? Is this now the list for non-notable social networking sites? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.90.96.17 (talk) 23:32, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Vox

A blogging site not Social Networking (primarily anyway)! Wikipedia she shouldn't be an advertisement for sites to get more traffic and members. I suggest this and others be removed? 11:11 29th April 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.13.184.47 (talk) 10:12, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Zanby

May I ask why both the page for social networking site Zanby and the link from this list page were removed? Tomcat66 g500 (talk) 17:23, 2 January 2008 (UTC)Tomcat66 g500 16:56, 2 January 2008

because the article was speedily deleted as having not established notability per WP:WEB. this list only includes social networking sites which have an article on wikipedia.--Crossmr (talk) 17:26, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Habbo

Habbo should be added. See here.

Habbo is one the world’s largest and fastest growing virtual worlds and social networking services for teenagers. Localized Habbo communities all around the world are visited by millions of teenagers every week.

I understand that social networking has previously not been the main focus of Habbo, but this has changed with the advancement of the Internet, and Web 2.0. Habbo consists of two main features; a virtual world, which is presented in the form of a massage chat room, and user profile in which community members have the ability to express themselves by customizing and sharing content with each other through their own Habbo homepage.

It's clearly a social networking service, hence it should be added to the list. --Supermatique (talk) 02:33, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

These are the kinds of sites we've discussed before. Sites which weren't social networking, then because of web 2.0 throw a few social networking features on. Does it really make them social networking? This is a marketing description, and social networking is a buzzword (term) right now. If you actually go to the habbo sites themselves, I don't see social networking mentioned on the front page, its only referred to as a virtual world. Regardless of their marketing, the primary focuses seems to remain that of a virtual world.--Crossmr (talk) 05:02, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

I understand that. However, websites are changing their standards to meet with how the Internet is today, the service has existed since 2000 — and era when social networking websites weren't really around, they can't be blamed or restricted from being a social networking website just for moving along with the rapid future of technology today. The virtual world is just an advanced Chat room presented in the form of a virtual world which is a service they have made the focal point of their product, just like Last.fm made music the focal point of their service. However, they have not limited user interaction with various other services such as messaging, discussion groups and profiles. --Supermatique (talk) 10:09, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

No one is blaming them or restricting them. Not being on this list doesn't effect the site in anyway. However we have to look at whether or not social networking is their primary function. And there may be entries on this list which need to be removed. I've made one pass at it in an attempt to clean it up at some of the more obvious one, but each entry needs a little scrutiny to make sure it belongs here. For Habbo, while they've created the ability to have a profile and a friends list, social networking doesn't seem to be their main function, that's the key criterion for being on this list (in addition to being notable and already have an article on wikipedia) Thank you for bringing up Last.fm, because after I've gone and read the page, it doesn't seem like social networking is the primary function there either. Its a good spot to start the cleanup.--Crossmr (talk) 17:12, 3 January 2008 (UTC)gfdsgfdsfgdshgf tfdsghf

How is Habbo not a social networking service? Last.fm's primary purpose is radios, that's for sure. Habbo, on the other hand, is as much social networking as social networking can get. From the Social network service here, Habbo fits quite well into the definition. The purpose of Habbo is exactly that, to chat around and meet and make friends, which is exactly what social networking is about. Just because it's a virtual world with animated 2D sprites, doesn't change the fact that its primary function is social networking. Ufopedia (talk) 13:35, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

giblink.com

I would like to see www.giblink.com added to wikipedia. The site was banned because a past user tried to add the listing, but filled their submission with blatant advertising. A simple listing would cover the bases, and with 26,000 members signing up since September, it would seem this is a legitimate website for small and home-based businesses. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Msjvd (talk • contribs) 15:41, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Before adding a website to this page, a user has to write the article first. If the article does not follow Wikipedia policies and guidelines, especailly WP:V and WP:RS, it is likely to be deleted. Please do not add a site to this page before that is done. UnitedStatesian (talk) 15:58, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Yuwie and iYomu

I think both of these are notable and should be put on the list. 172.194.15.162 (talk)

Before adding a website to this page, a user has to write the article first. If the article does not follow Wikipedia policies and guidelines, especailly WP:V and WP:RS, it is likely to be deleted. Please do not add a site to this page before that is done. UnitedStatesian (talk) 13:54, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

seniorennet.be

18:29, 10 January 2008 (UTC)~

Hi,

I came to this page via google and looked at the list. I am member of www.seniorennet.be. And it is not in the list. There exists a Wikipedia article on it, on the Dutch Wikipedia: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seniorennet (didn't found any on the english one)

It is a Belgian website with over 1 000 000 members (I heared a few months ago over 1.3 million; but i am not 100% sure), and all the members are all seniors (50 years or older) and is one of the 10 biggest sites in our country. So it is maybe interesting to add it to the global list.

sorry if I am wrong if it isn't a good site for the list.

Until someone writes an article in English WP, the site should not be on this list. UnitedStatesian (talk) 19:17, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Ipernity.com

Maybe you might want to check Ipernity.com, a Flickr-alike growing site, with blog and multimedia file capacity. I have no idea about the number of users. It's France-based but pretty international and growing in Europe.

81.75.222.76 (talk) 09:09, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Unless it has an article on wikipedia which meets WP:WEB it won't be added to the list.--Crossmr (talk) 18:00, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.241.248.235 (talk) 11:01, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Connectture.com

A very interesting Social Business network which is growing, reminds me a bit of one of the big business networks. Connectture.com has a lot of usable features. Its a multilingual site, right now its in English, Swedish and Danish.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.94.215.181 (talk • contribs) 17:44, January 16, 2008

First it needs an article and to create the article it needs to meet the criteria laid out at WP:NOTE for web content.--Crossmr (talk) 01:40, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Fubar

Why is Fubar not added to this list? I am curious as it's also a community similar to myspace, facebook, bebu, hi5, etc. Ariyen (talk) 18:30, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Because entries are only included in the list if there is a Wikipedia article about the site which satisfies the guidelines at WP:WEB for the inclusion of articles about websites. On this list, the principle of Write the Article First is followed. -- AJR | Talk 22:43, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

It appears to have been added now. Haoie (talk) 02:07, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

vampirefreaks

I think this site should be added. http://vampirefreaks.com/main.php

Its a social networking site inventied for the goth and industrial subcultures, but also has many metalheads, cybergoths and punks on it. I would say its a social netowrking site for people of alternative music subcultures. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.154.230.85 (talk) 16:49, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

It doesn't have a Wikipedia article. All entries require Wiki articles to have already been written. You can start the article if you'd like. -- FatalError (t|c) 01:10, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Tuenti.com

Tuenti had a formatting issue that made it appear at the top of the list when sorting by total number of users. I looked at their main Wiki entry and apparently they have had some issue with someone overzealously promoting the site here, so I went ahead and just fixed this for them. Robbiemuffin (talk) 01:52, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Tagging with Onesource, Out of date, and Page number

Not sure why you don't understand why I added the 3 template tags: {{Onesource}} because only one of the the registered user numbers is sourced, {{Outofdate}} because the registered users numbers get outdated very quickly, and {{Page number}} because the one source listed just says "New York Times". Libcub (talk) 23:31, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Longstanding WP practice for list articles allows the sourcing to be in the article linked, but because you apparently feel strongly about the tags, I added a second source to justify my removal of the {{Onesource}} tag. I took away the {{Page number}} tag because the source is the online edition of the NYT (which I clarified), and someone has left page numbers off of a lot of the internet. On the {{Outofdate}} tag, could you point to a particular number that is out of date (note from the edit history how frequently this page is updated): it's the whole lighting a candle is better than cursing the darkneness concept: how about helping make the page better like the rest of us rather than just throwing tags around? UnitedStatesian (talk) 02:06, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of items

Several editors are continually removing other editor's additions to the list, citing Wikipedia:Write the Article First. That page is an essay, not a policy or guideline. It is not appropriate to remove items from the list because of what the essay says. Libcub (talk) 06:02, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Adding empty Red links to an article does not add any content or meaning to wikipedia and is an unhelpful contribution.--Hu12 (talk) 06:26, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm not arguing for or against adding social networking sites without a corresponding Wikipedia article. I'm just saying that it isn't appropriate to justify a deletion with an essay. Libcub (talk) 07:20, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

It does represent the Vast majority consensus for inclusion criterion, and avoids the repetative task of repeating the same statement to the hundreds of ip's and WP:SPA accounts spamming redlinks. It need not be policy, however the consensus process, basically, means that the majority of editors can more or less agree that additions should conform with WP:WTAF. Hope that helps.--Hu12 (talk) 08:44, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

The references to WP:WTAF are similar to the references to the essay WP:AADD in deletion discussions: the essay reference provides a shorthand (that fits in the edit summary) to the editor's reasoning (which, as Hu points out, is universally shared by the editors who have made the majority of the contributions to this page). UnitedStatesian (talk) 14:18, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Medical Social Websites like CareFlash.com

How about a Medical Social Website like CareFlash.com? Klostermankl (talk) 03:18, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Booksie.com

I added Booksie.com but see that it was deleted. I created a page for it so can it now be added. It's one of the biggest literature social networks on the Web that I know of. --Phillanuto (talk) 20:48, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

BannedFromEverywhere

There is no page for this site, also listing contains advertising. I checked out the site and there are only four members. Seeing that other listing where deleted because of this, I removed this listing. Ediciuz (talk) 20:08, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Floxtar

No page exists for this entry. (And bad formatting.) Removed. Ediciuz (talk) 20:23, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

urSESSION

What about this one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.42.120.188 (talk) 16:52, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

www.urbanstop.us would be a nice addition to this list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tx Nique (talk • contribs) 21:17, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

the "Registered users" Button doesn't work proprely !

it sorts the numbers with faults

~~Mario~~ ~~ 12th March 2008 ~~ ~~ 18 h 22 ~~

Last.fm

I added Last.fm. It has an extensive wikipedia page and definitely deserves a place on this list. Actually, its wikipedia page already linked to this page without it even being on it. Ingridjames (talk) 09:31, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

It was removed because social networking wasn't its primary function. This list is for sites whose primary function is social networking. Social networking seems only to be a footnote in the introduction to this website.--137.186.84.54 (talk) 15:00, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Its slogan is "the social music revolution". It qualifies as much as iLike. -- FatalError (t|c) 01:07, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

QQ is the biggest SNS in the World!

Check this [2]. I add it to the list with unknown number of users --Zinayida (talk) 18:23, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

enhancing this article with another column

The most significant thing in social networking is how so many major social networks are launching platforms for third party developers. I'd like to see this article enhanced with a column that lists whether each social network has launched such a platform (like Facebook and Friendster), or has announced support for OpenSocial. The Wikipedia Article on OpenSocial lists about 20 social networks that have announced support for it. I'd like to see that info added to a new, far right column entitled "Platform Support."

Does this make sense to anyone else?

Paulballen (talk) 15:06, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Social Networking for children

Are there any safe sites available for my 10 and 7 year old daughters? They would like to use one but i am not sure what advice to give. I don't want them to use myspace, bebo etc. and then lie about their ages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.6.236.159 (talk) 12:11, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, this isn't the place to ask. "This is not a forum for general discussion about the article's subject." However, you might find this post useful. -- FatalError (t|c) 01:15, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorting

I know this may not be the place but I cannot sort the table properly using the down button under the column of Registered Users. Does anyone have an idea or a solution? --Jack in the box (talk) 12:36, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Works for me. Do you have JavaScript enabled in your browser? -- FatalError (t|c) 01:16, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

I have a problem with the sorting too. I'm using FF2 with NoScript and all scripts allowed. I can sort by the first four coloumns but I can't sort by the Alexa-coloumn. And I sorting by the number users doesn't work correctly as I get this order: [14], 70mio, 9.6mio, 70mio, 68mio, 0.475mio, 0.382906mio, ..., 20mio, 2mio, 110mio, 10mio and then comes all the rest without this cell filled. Sorting by the other three coloumns gives the correct result but that is sorting my letters not numbers. -- JanCK (talk) 22:49, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh, well the Alexa column doesn't work for me either; I don't know if it's supposed to. And I didn't notice the problem with the Registered Users column. I'm guessing the <ref> tags are messing it up. -- FatalError (t|c) 02:13, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

The alexa column doesn't wok, because it is missing cells. it needs a whole load of {{ntsh|0}} entries. Mayalld (talk) 08:20, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Scuzz.com

Would I be able to add this site to the list?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuzz#Scuzz.com

It is mentioned under the article on the rock channel Scuzz, and the site can certainly be classed as a Social Networking site. It is a Social Networking Site for Rock/Metal fans who want access to new music, in a similar style to Rockworld.tv, only it allows profiles to be set up, has talk functions and the ability to upload photos, videos and music files, in a similar method to Myspace. Starom (talk) 18:03, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Sounds like another WEB 2.0 mash-up. That doesn't exactly make a site a social networking site because you've tacked on profiles, etc.--137.186.84.54 (talk) 14:41, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Sites to Consider

SummitPost.org - Climbing/Hiking, Rocks/Mountains
BookQube.com - Books
EmoEarth.com - Alternative Social Network —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.135.98.177 (talk) 19:08, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Just FYI. --roy<sac> ^Talk! .oOo. 09:54, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

We're not exactly here to consider sites. There is one criterion to have an article listed on this list: It has an article on wikipedia. However that comes with its own criteria, notably it meets WP:V, WP:NPOV, and WP:WEB. If you feel those sites meet those policies, most importantly WP:WEB, then feel free to create articles based on them and add them to the list.--137.186.84.54 (talk) 14:40, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

tripadvisor.com - Online Travel site now owned by Expedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.83.109.146 (talk) 17:33, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

User Numbers

3 problems: 1. Almost all the user numbers are uncited 2. Those that were cited are often several years out of date 3. The numbers quoted do not match those in the actual article on the site's WP page!

all 3 of thse pose a serious problem in a factual encyclopedia! rather than simply have this page deleted, i've removed all the numbers that seem to have arisen out of the ether/someone's arse and left spaces for nice, cited, utd ones Jw2034 (talk) 21:16, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

In addition, i've added (some) of the alexa global rankings for each of the sites. a very crude and NPOV way of judging relative number of current users, but far better than unsourced speculative user numbers Jw2034 (talk) 21:35, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Good work, BTW ;)--Hu12 (talk) 05:54, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

I also like the removal of the uncited numbers and the "unknowns"; thanks for that. I am less happy about the Alexa column: there are big problems with Alexa numbers (statistical bias - see the WP article), but I also think they change too frequently to be encyclopedic or useful: it is kind of like putting the closing stock price on every company article in WP, which we would not currently do. Do you have a big problem if I remove the Alexa column? UnitedStatesian (talk) 04:40, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, i do have a problem. The alexa numbers update frequently, but wikipedia also lists company operating profits (updated quaterly or more) and further, data on sports scores and events, updated near instantaneously. Yes, there is some bias - particularly in the number of page hits - in the alexa data, but the alexa ranking generally strongly correlates with the number of users of the social networking site. Besides, for at least the top 5 by alexa ranking, there are few people who wouldnt disagree that those 5 are certainly the largest and have the most active users. Either way, the alexa data is npov, far better than 'numbers of users' which may be a)inflated by advertisers (a major problem with this article continuously), b) inflated by users, c)from a news article 2 years out of date (i've corrected this particualrly in the case of facebook) d)not count active users (which the alexa data at least gives a idea of). Further, the alexa ranking cannot be manipulated - if alexa says it's 1000'th globally, then it is that!

A major problem on this page is spammers artificially inflating popularity of adlinked sites - the alexa data may not be perfect, but it is a better, npov, unmanipulatable (at least by single users). Anyway, there is a link to alexa in the article itself, where such statistical matters are addressed and the reader can make up their own mind as to precision. Can also add Google Pagerank figures, which should help. Jw2034 (talk) 20:43, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

It's my opinion that each cited user number should include within the cell the date (or at least the year) that the number was current. The reasoning being that having the information all laid out in a table form begs for the reader to compare the sites. As it is not obvious that the numbers weren't obtained at the same time, aren't always current, and may even be multiple years old, the comparison the reader makes as they analyze the information is an unfair one. Does this make sense, or am I just out of it right now? SidShakal (talk) 23:31, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Selective lists of competitors on main website page

Another thing i've noticed is websites listed here tend to give something like 'similar to Myspace, Facebook, etc...' in their description. Since this list is selective, and tend to be 'similar to big popular website' it clearly raises issues with NPOV and advertising in articles. Ideally, all such comparisions should be made to this article instead Jw2034 (talk) 18:29, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Deleted and replaced with a different company

Why was college tonight deleted from the list? Blm0303 (talk) 18:28, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

A mystery. This site appears to qualify for listing, and no explanation for its removal was offered by the editor that removed it, so restored. Mayalld (talk) 18:49, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. :) Blm0303 (talk) 16:13, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Terribly sorry, meant to revert another spam edit. College tonight is ok to be added. Jw2034 (talk) 23:22, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

How does one indicate that a listed social network has shut down?

I noticed that Consumating.com is on the list, but it shut down on March 14, 2008 -- according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumating

I think it should perhaps remain on the list.. but with an added column of its closed status? Especially since there many be more of these sites that end up shutting down. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mhhfive (talk • contribs) 19:47, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, we should cover notable historical sites as well as present ones, since the article's part of an encyclopedia, rather than merely a web directory of present-day sites. --Delirium (talk) 06:56, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Alexa numbers should be removed

Alexa is not useful for this page -- it has an English-speaking bias and many of these websites are international. Shii (tock) 23:56, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Alexa recently changed its methodology -- I'm not saying that it no longer has any English-speaking bias, but it's a reasonable metric that is freely obtainable. Compete.com or Comscore numbers might be better, but they're expensive to obtain, I think. (Alexa has incorporated ISP traffic data, so it's not just using its toolbar anymore)

I vote to leave the Alexa numbers in for at least some metric of traffic because user registrations numbers can be vastly inflated and traffic can offer at least some hint as to whether the user numbers are generating a proportional amount of traffic.

Mhhfive (talk) 04:53, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

This is the English Wikipedia, hence unfortunately will have a bias towards English sites anyway!Jw2034 (talk) 22:28, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

That doesn't mean we should exacerbate it with data from American ISPs and English speakers using the toolbar. Shii (tock) 15:36, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

English Speakers RUNNING WINDOWS AND IE using the toolbar, actually, which makes it even more biased. --194.202.236.116 (talk) 10:15, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Youtube

If Flick is in the list, Youtube should be there too, as it's a video-blogging platform where you can build a network of "favorite users/channels" and post video-comments on video-blog pages. Jcak77 11:24, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Youtube is a video sharing site. Flikr is a photo sharing site. Neither are social networking sites, and should not appear hereJw2034 (talk) 09:41, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

If this is the definition of social networking site, "A social network service uses software to build online social networks for communities of people who share interests and activities or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others," then both Flickr and YouTube should definitely be included in the list of social networking services. In Flickr you can join groups to post and discuss specific types of photographs. You can also add contacts who form a network of people who view and comment on your pics. YouTube, similarly, allows you to add contacts who are alerted when you post new videos. You can also not only comment on videos, but video reply to videos. There is also a video blogging feature (called vlogging). Both of these sites provide the infrastructure to interact with others in a social networking style, they just have a specific medium in which the social networking is fashioned around. They may not fit the original Friendster or Orkut format of social networking, but they're definitely indicative of the direction that social networking is headed. Barefootmeg (talk) 16:26, 7 June 2008 (UTC

read:
http://www.youtube.com/t/about 'Founded in February 2005, YouTube is the leader in online video, and the premier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips on www.YouTube.com and across the Internet through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email.'

you can also have: YouTube, quote 'YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips'

youtube is a video sharing site, as defined by Video hosting service it it not primarity a social networking site as defined by Social networking site and should not appear hereJw2034 (talk) 10:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

I strongly disagree with Youtube not being considered a social networking site. Without the ability to comment Youtube would be much less successful. I've been engaged in various discussions and arguments for years, and I've made various contacts through Youtube. Clearly, it *IS* a social networking site, and it should be listed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.70.123.156 (talk) 14:37, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Bug/Misformatting?

The last two columns cannot be sorted (the Alexa rank and Users ones) in Firefox 2.0.x.x on Windows. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.229.177.26 (talk) 08:30, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Wrong planet

The article's listing of popular and high-traffic discussion boards should include Wrong Planet, an online community and social networking site for members diagnosed with Autism and Asperger's syndrome. The site is where many autistic adults sought advice in social situations they find difficult and to promote a sense of community among others with their neurological disorder. + 71.102.53.48 (talk) 01:50, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Bad numbers for spaces.live.com

The numbers for windows live spaces are inaccurate. They include *all* traffic to live.com, only 4% of which is actually to spaces.live.com. Alexa only shows stats for top level domains.

Quantcast shows much more realistic numbers for the spaces subdomain: http://www.quantcast.com/spaces.live.com 64.81.57.203 (talk) 21:51, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

funny counting

wtf? File:Http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/227/clipboard01jb4.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.104.217.115 (talk) 01:56, 1 June, 2006 (UTC)

Giving external link to image above: [3] --real _decimic 05:58, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Geni.com registered users

The number of 15,000,000 users registered on geni.com is simply false! The number refers to profiles. A member can add as many profiles to his family tree as he/she wants. That does not mean that the person he added to the family tree is registered but that there is some info on the person in Geni's database. The correct number would have to be YXZ family trees, because there has to be at least 1 user registered on geni.com to build a family tree and this is probably a much smaller number. Newbie1980 (talk) 11:16, 6 June 2008 (UTC)—Preceding unsigned comment added by Newbie1980 (talk • contribs) 09:59, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Kaboodle

Kaboodle is not on the list but does have a wikipedia entry. Kaboodle is primarily a social shopping site that uses social networking as the engine to drive traffic. This usage of social networking, (similar sites are thisnext and zlio) that is increasing.Bealby (talk) 17:38, 1 July 2008 (UTC) bealbyBealby (talk) 17:38, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Why no Pitch Buzz?

There is a list of social networks and almost all of them have wikipedia pages. Pitchbuzz.com is also a social network and should be listed and have a page . It has members and is fully functional. I have made several attempts to create a page for the site but they are always deleted. Pitch Buzz should not continue to be over looked.

Thank you,

Star788 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Star788 (talk • contribs) 19:06, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

See the guidelines for notability WP:WEB. Unless the site meets those criteria it cannot have a page and cannot have an entry on this list.--221.143.25.19 (talk) 12:25, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Add Spoke.com

Help! someone, I'm lost editing the table! Someone please add Spoke.com. It's FAQ claims: "Spoke gives you access to over 40 million businesspeople at over 2.3 million companies." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.53.209.133 (talk) 13:14, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Where is Digg and Reddit

What trash is this list. --Leladax (talk) 06:11, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Digg and reddit and other sites like them were discussed long ago. Their primary focus is not social networking. --221.143.25.19 (talk) 12:22, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

obviously that 'old' discussion had no idea what it was talking about. --Leladax (talk) 12:41, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

You feel digg and reddit have the same focus on social networking that a place like Facebook has? These sites have a primary focus of sharing links. There is no requirement to partake in social networking to use the site. You don't need to network with many people to share the links, nor do you need to network with many people to view the links. While compared to Facebook where most of the features are fairly useless/boring without doing any social networking.--221.143.25.19 (talk) 23:04, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

it's not what you think it is, it's what people talk about when they say 'social networking'. digg is constantly listed with that description. --Leladax (talk) 04:44, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

And so is any other site which has some kind of web2.0 mashup. It doesn't make them a site whose primary function is social networking. Everyone wants to be a social networking site because its the hippest thing to be right now. Next year it will be something else. This list is concerned with sites whose primary function is social networking.--Crossmr (talk) 05:31, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

this is ridiculous, wikipedia is not the soapbox of pedantic use of language. It's a double standard having that behavior here and another elsewhere in wikipedia. I don't care what's the proper way to do it, but it certainly isn't to do it differently in different parts of wikipedia. --Leladax (talk) 22:39, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

It isn't ridiculous and calling it such doesn't make your case. The issue of mashups and sites which aren't primarily social networking has come up several times in the past in this article. The editors have always agreed and abided by the fact that the sites must be primarily concerned with social networking, otherwise we would end up with a flood of sites who really just tacked on a "friends" system and try to call their site a social networking site. I can make a friend's list on my userpage here on wikipedia, is wikipedia suddenly a social networking site? I don't think so. Much like some news corporations have "blogs" which aren't really blogs, just renamed articles or op ed pieces, some sites take the term social networking purely for marketing value and not because it is what they actually do. There has never been any double standard in that.--Crossmr (talk) 17:32, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

"I can make a friend's list on my userpage here on wikipedia, is wikipedia suddenly a social networking site?" Why not? Don't be a fanatic, wikipedia has done such things in the past and keeps doing them. --Leladax (talk) 00:10, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Insults don't make your point. The point was that many editors decided that only sites whose primary function is social networking should be listed here. Other sites who have other primary functions will find themselves on other lists, such as dating sites.--Crossmr (talk) 01:31, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

It's a double standard having that behavior here and another elsewhere in wikipedia. Which article(s) are you referring to, Leladax? --Bonadea (talk) 06:18, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Digg and reddit are not predominantly social networking sites. The are blogging and newsfeed sites. Same as youtube is a video sharing site first, with some aspects of social networking (see talk above) - it is not predominantly a social networking site, therefore it stays off the list (and any attempt to add it will be immediately reverted) Jw2034 (talk) 22:43, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Luach.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luach.com

As the Wiki page says "Luach.com is a Jewish community online bulletin board, sometimes referred to as the "Jewish Craigslist" in which members of the Jewish communities of more than 40 North American cities, or in Europe or Israel"

This is the largest Jewish Community Classified website in the world with an average of 30,000 unique vistors a month.

Can someone add this for me. I don't know how.

Mse25 (talk) 19:14, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

FYI: A new site is here. It's registered, live and still under improvement. www.realfakeworld.com It's an open and new world for users (members/ businesses) to create their ideal new world. It was launched in 2008 in the UK but is not limit to the UK. Giving the world the opportunity to create what they want rather than being force fed what they have to have and get used to.

Real Person @ Real Fake World —Preceding unsigned comment added by Realfakeworld (talk • contribs) 16:50, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Military Science

Military Science Online databases and Military Science Encyclopedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.197.232.218 (talk) 08:16, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

In my opinion, Hyves is certainly not especially for students. It's for everyone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.204.129.239 (talk) 16:39, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

xiaonei.com

Hi, I couldn't see xiaonei.com on the list. I has the highest traffic for social networks in China according to Alexa.

Site: http://xiaonei.com/ Info: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/xiaonei Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaonei

Worth adding? Still new and reading up on how to use Wiki. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cybergen (talk • contribs) 21:55, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

I added it. UnitedStatesian (talk) 22:01, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Going to remove the active users column

Just a heads up: it makes no sense to have a column where only 7 of the 100+ entries have entries, especially since the active users has almost a perfect linear relationship to the regisetered users for those sites. Also, the sorting does not work on a column that has blank entires. UnitedStatesian (talk) 13:10, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

ZenZuu.com

I believe zenzuu.com should be added to the list as they have over 170,000 members. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vortex6930 (talk • contribs) 17:50, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Is the number of Facebook users incorrect?

The articles refers to http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9973826-36.html which shows it had ~124m unique visitors not registered.

Should it be changed to the more reliable figure of ~110 as posted on http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics ?

Cybergen

Hyves

Where's Hyves? It has a page on the English Wikipedia, it is by far the largest social network in the Netherlands with 1/3 of the Dutch having a page (5 million, including the prime minister and many many Dutch artists) and 2 million non-Dutch and still growing very fast. 192.87.23.21 (talk) 13:55, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Have you considered adding it yourself? Mayalld (talk) 14:12, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

It's there already Jw2034 (talk) 22:45, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Wireclub

Disclaimer: I am one of the owners of Wireclub.

Just wondering what would be necessary to get our social network (wireclub.com) added to Wikipedia's list. I think we are 'notable' - at least I hope we are. We have just over a million members now (http://www.prweb.com/releases/wireclub/chat/prweb1704224.htm). Unlike other revenue-oriented social networks, Wireclub is a community-oriented service where the user experience is the main concern. It would mean the world to us to be mentioned on Wikipedia.

Rod —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.207.78.2 (talk) 02:03, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Wireclub doesnt exist. 'Wireclub is a community-oriented service where the user experience is the main concern' sounds like advertising, which is against wikipedia policy. if you create the page Wireclub, and have it stand, it mkaes the list. simple. Jw2034 (talk) 19:30, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Rod: I read it somewhere that I am not supposed to create a page for a business I own. I don't know much about how Wikipedia works so please bear with me. Should I create a page to see if it stands or not? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.207.78.2 (talk) 23:55, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

WP:WTAF. There is no reason why the owner, employees or anyone involved of a business cannot - its the same situation as a film star or a footballer being able to edit their own page; there are no specific rules against it as long as the page remains within wikipedia guidelines. In this case in particular find 3rd party reviews, sources that arn't your site and that are reputable, verifiable and notable as per WP:NOTE, WP:CITE and ensure the article doesnt read like an advert as per Wikipedia:Spam. as an example all pages currently on the list meet this guidance and are checked to ensure they manitain a neutral point of view. it may also help to sign up for an account and declare your interest on your own talk page, although this should not be necessary Jw2034 (talk) 22:07, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Univision.com

Hi. I manage product development for Univision.com, but didn't know if I should add Univision.com myself to the list. We recently passed 1 million social networking profiles, and I thought that this milestone merited us being added to the list. Our social network is powered by a company called Onesite, and profile count can be viewed in real-time by visiting the following URL. http://univision.onesite.com/. Please let me know if you'd like any more info, and perhaps someone would be willing to add us? Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by UnivisionDeveloper (talk • contribs) 02:53, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

For anybody considering this, the user has been blocked for self-promotion and - looking into it - the site doesn't warrant an entry. As I understand it, "onesite" hosts social networking sites. Ergo, univision isn't a site in its own right. So, no, this shouldn't be added. Greggers ^{(t • c)} 22:47, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Translation?

A page like that would be great in the french wikipedia. Thanks for any effort. 04:30, 15 January 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.81.167.56 (talk)

Panoramio

I suggest the inclusion of Panoramio on the list. I think it's considered a social network since it's a geotagged blogged user photo gallery and has quite a userbase, besides its interaction with Google Earth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wyup (talk • contribs) 12:34, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Zootoo.com

I suggest the re-addition of zootoo.com to the list. It is a social network for pet lovers. Debate the 'primary purpose' doctrine by all means - though be clear, youtube.com is currently still on this list. It is not a 'social network' in the way facebook is. Zootoo is about pet lovers, that is, people, sharing and connecting with each other. User count is 300,000 plus.

AdultFriendFinder

Adult Friend Finder is not a social networking site, unless all "dating" sites are considered social networking sites. They're also a very commercial organisation; I feel that their inclusion was most likely for commercial purposes, rather than any relevancy to this list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.132.221.226 (talk) 06:51, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

You should assume good faith on the part of the editors who put it onto the list; the WP article on the site is balanced and non-commercial, and describes it as social netowrking. It is one of the top 50 sites on the Web, and certainly has enough significant converage to demnstrate its notabilty. UnitedStatesian (talk) 21:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Well my concern was not that it's not a notable site, on the contrary, AdultFriendFinder has been in existance for quite some time. Rather I would disagree with it being considered a social networking site, but attempting to dispute it's status as such, I would first have to define a "social networking site." Which is difficult. The definition that I finally came up with is "a website created to represent or allow communication between members of a community, with no specific purpose." This is a weak definition, because a key aspect - "no specific purpose" - is difficult to quantify. However, AdultFriendFinder would violate this definition, as it's marketing literature (found on it's front page), clearly states "Meet Real Sex Partners, Tonight." Similarly, this definition would render a distinction between other dating sites, and other social networking sites. maas15 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 03:26, 2 May 2009 (UTC).

Japanese Social Networking website

How would I go by getting a Social Networking website included to Wikipedia? The site directly deals with people currently living in Japan and also people living in other countries that are interested in Japan. You can view the site at http://www.egenki.com

Jmh2009 (talk) 07:29, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Look at Wikipedia:Your first article. That has all the instructions for which topics are appropriate subjects for Wikipedia articles, and how to write them. Feel free to post any further questions on my talk page (link follows:) UnitedStatesian (talk) 19:42, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

postnonstop.com

Hi was just invited and joined the new social networking website ran on Wordpress-Mu and Buddypress integration. I wanted to know your opinion on including it here in this article. The sites address is http://postnonstop.com .How many members should a site have to be included? --Ntb613 (talk) 19:27, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

The issue is not number of members, but whether there is a stand-alone Wikipedia article on the social network. UnitedStatesian (talk) 19:44, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Then i have another question when should a site get a stand alone article?Ntb613 (talk) 20:03, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Jappy.de

Again another popular German social networking site which appears to be missing. Very popular to the German speaking world. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.148.37.73 (talk) 23:11, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Please write a wikipedia article on Jappy.de first, then suggest inclusion in this list. -- 62.78.167.76 (talk) 15:51, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Vibe.to should be added

Vibe.to is the largest social networking site in Canada that targets teens, it is often reffered to as the Myspace of Canada. Which is the second largest market in the world after the US.

I cannot believe no importance or mention in wikipedia...instead we have vampirefreaks??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.20.141.46 (talk) 06:32, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Please write a wikipedia article on Vibe.to first, then suggest inclusion in this list. And no, Canada is not the second largest market in the world ;) -- 62.78.167.76 (talk) 15:48, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

missing: schooolbank.nl

Hi, I don't want to edit this page but remark there is a large network in the Netherlands called SchoolBANK.nl where you find your old class mades and pictures of your class. They have about 3,5million members

) —Preceding unsigned comment added by VanderlekD (talk • contribs) 09:58, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Why isn't Identica listed?

I realise this isn't meant to be an exhaustive list, but Identica fulfils a unique role and seems to be more active than many of the sites listed already. Silnerwilner (talk) 22:12, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

updating

while flicking through this page i noticed that some social networks are missing (virb possibly others) also i believe that the number of users of twitter is about 20 million off what the bbc says thanks number from [4]

--go twadit 02:52, 14 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Go twadit (talk • contribs)

also alexa rankings need updating

--go twadit 20:28, 14 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Go twadit (talk • contribs)

Media mention about this page

I don't know how to do this template... sorry. http://www.medpagetoday.com/Columns/15891 --PaulWicks (talk) 20:46, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

adult friend finder really should be fixed

either a bad link or no page. Probably "titi"
"adult only porn network" doesn't sound like what i've heard. (and heard and heard)
does anyone else doubt it has 33,000,000 members? could we find a more reliable source than AFF itself? I imagine it'd be hard...93.107.140.154 (talk) 17:22, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Please add CyWorld

It's the biggest SNS in Korea. Here's the info about it on Alexa: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cyworld.com

They've even started one in English as they planned on expanding in the USA. Here's the English wiki for CyWorld: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyworld Just so you can check if this is "notable enough" for your list :)

January 11, 2010. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahz29 (talk • contribs) 15:28, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Adding windows live spaces or Yahoo! profiles

I suggest that windows live spaces and Yahoo! profiles should also be added in the list.--Ahz29 (talk) 15:10, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

What about Adultspace.com

It is a adult social network like Myspace. But for people 18 and older only —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.226.224.235 (talk) 15:45, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Step 1 would be to create an article and show that it meets notability guidelines and then step 2 is to add it to this list. ~~ GB fan ~~ ^talk 15:52, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Facebook age requirements

Facebook is for people of 18 and older, which is not written in the list...--Ahz29 (talk) 07:33, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Jaiku

Jaiku is not a general social networking site. It is a micro blogging site (like twitter) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahz29 (talk • contribs) 07:45, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

renaming

Shouldn't this article be named as Comparison of social networking websites. --173.183.102.184 (talk) 10:55, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Consider inclusion of www.P1.cn

a social network founded 2007 and now has over 600.000 members according to http://www.mobinode.com/2010/01/12/p1-the-highest-quality-social-network-in-china/ Alexa says 9.200 in the world and around 900 in china. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Svante.jerling (talk • contribs) 06:11, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Add eSnips

http://www.esnips.com/

8,868,665 users

80.180.178.212 (talk) 16:53, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

I've added it, but I couldn't find a reliable source (or even a self-published one) for the number of registered users. — Satori Son 18:50, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

For translators

Two social networks for translators are: langmates and watercoolernetwork. These are likely to be small in comparison to the general, all-inclusive, non-trade related networks, so I'm not sure how one would determine notability. -- 41.243.1.200 (talk) 08:51, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

For purposes of this article, and most other list articles on Wikipedia, sufficient notability is established by the existence of an independent article on the subject. In this case, we would need articles at Langmates and Watercoolernetwork that meet our criteria for inclusion. — Satori Son 13:54, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

FurAffinity.net

Would it be worth considering FurAffinity.net? --76.203.215.118 (talk) 16:23, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

This page is a listing of those websites that have an article on Wikipedi. At this point there is no article on FurAffinity.net, so it would not be appropriate to add it to this page. If you believe that the website meets the notability guidelines, you can create an article (you would have to login to create the article) or you can use the articles for creation process. If an entry is made to this page without an existing article it will be removed. ~~ GB fan ~~ ^talk 17:48, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Vkontakte Alexa rank

The Alexa rank on this page is for VK.com. The Alexa rank for vkontakte.ru is 38 or so, between Flickr and Orkut. It being the original address, shouldn't this rank be added? (Or better even, both, but I'm not sure how that would work in sorting.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.179.218.10 (talk) 10:27, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Suggestion for addition

Pregnancy.org -- you have Babycenter.com listed -- Pregnancy.org also has hundreds of forums and groups for peer-to-peer support for trying to conceive, pregnancy and parenting. We're in the top 10 in terms of traffic. Molleeb (talk) 12:56, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

The site BabyCenter has an article, while Pregnancy.org does not appear to. To add it to this list, we would first need an article on the subject that meets our criteria for inclusion. — Satori Son 13:59, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

It was recently deleted. Toddst1 (talk) 16:09, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

The Pregnancy.org page will eventually be redone by someone hopefully. Todd was kind enough to let it exist for that instance. If the rule for this page is that there has to be an article here on wiki, okay. The babycenter article is of a commercial nature and should be considered for editing or deletion. It's relevance to wiki is questionable. Molleeb (talk) 17:16, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

You might be right about the BabyCenter article. I see Toddst1 has already prodded it, and if it's deleted, it will be removed from this list article. — Satori Son 18:35, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Well, based on the emerging consensus at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/BabyCenter, this website appears to meet our standards for inclusion. — Satori Son 17:17, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Imageboards - do they belong here?

I have just reverted the addition of 4chan, an imageboard, which was repeatedly added today. I see from the article's history that it has been added and reverted several times in the past along with other imageboards.

Having looked at the genre I do not believe they belong in this list, but would like to get consensus from other editors including user M3n (talk · contribs) who made the most recent addition. --Biker Biker (talk) 16:36, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Unlike most imageboard sites, 4chan does have a hugely popular forum at /b/ that has been used to organize various social events and "activities". But I cannot see how any aspect of the website is an actual social network service, so it shouldn't be included in this list. Unless, of course, someone can find reliable published sources referring to it as such. — Satori Son 17:31, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

EclipseRealm.com

This one should go in the list of top social networks because it allows for video,chat and posting of images,pictures and video all in one social network that is easy to use and keeps you up to date on what's going on within itwww.EclipseRealm.com. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Socialnetworker (talk • contribs) 03:41, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

If you think it is so notable, then please create an article. Once the article has been in place for a couple of weeks, has been reviewed by some other editors for notability and quality, and not deleted, then add it to the list. However, if you are in any way connected with the site, as seems to be the case because your only contributions to date have been to add its link to Wikipedia articles, then you should read the conflict of interest policy and carefully consider your actions. --Biker Biker (talk) 06:30, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from 04trycla, 20 June 2010

{{editsemiprotected}} please may i add my social network to this list

04trycla (talk) 20:14, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Which social network? Does it have an existing Wikipedia article? If it doesn't then it will not be allowed on the list. When you say "my social network", if you are in any way connected with the site then you should be aware of Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy. Assuming there is an article and you are not connected with the site then go ahead and give us more details. --Biker Biker (talk) 21:02, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Article semi-protected for one month

In order to cut down the huge amount of spam and non-notable additions to this article, it has been semi-protected until July 20th. This means that only registered users who have had their account for five days will be allowed to make edits. IP editors will not be allowed to make any edits. After one month we can review things and ask for a longer protection period if the behaviour of newly registered and IP editors reverts to what it was. --Biker Biker (talk) 21:05, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Socialnews.biz

I suggest adding Socialnews.biz. It is a business news oriented social news site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.149.74.12 (talk) 02:57, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Create an article for it first. --Biker Biker (talk) 05:43, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Please add OkCupid

It already has a Wikipedia entry.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OkCupid

June 23, 2010. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.97.39.194 (talk) 04:21, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Please add Tencent QQ

Please add Tencent QQ - the largest social networking site in China. Facebook is planning to beat them, though. Facebook looks for growth in China and Russia--Anatoli (talk) 02:44, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

add Con2web

Not done |Create an article for it first ~~ GB fan ~~ ^talk 10:08, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

http://www.con2web.com

Descriptions

I think the descriptions of some of the sites need a review. Eg, "Amie Street" doesn't have a description at all, and the description of "Kiwibiox" sounds like an advertisement. Some descriptions also state where a community is popular, but don't provide a source (I guess that could be found in the related article, but I haven't checked everywhere). If I find the time, I will start reviewing, but maybe someone could help? --VArakawa (talk) 11:58, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Plus I just noted that the entry of "quarterlife" links to a Web TV series also called [quarterlife]. Does that mean there is no Wikipedia site on the community yet? --VArakawa (talk) 12:02, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

I looked and there does not appear to be an article about the social network site. So according to the consensus on this page I am going to remove it from the list. ~~ GB fan ~~ ^talk 12:26, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from Mgreene908, 2 July 2010

{{editsemiprotected}} Please add the following social networking site

Name: Lafango (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafango) Description/Focus: Talent-Focused media sharing site Registered users: --- Registration: Open Global Alexa: 36,186 (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/lafango.com#)

Mgreene908 (talk) 17:35, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Done -- /DeltaQuad|Notify Me\ 01:25, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

remove imeem

Done, I removed it ~~ GB fan ~~ ^talk 12:25, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Please remove imeem. They have been bought by myspace. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.144.148.37 (talk) 01:00, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Please add Yahoo Pulse

Not done Yahoo Pulse is a good social networking site —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.167.45.223 (talk) 11:15, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

At this point it does not look like Yahoo Pulse has an article. The consensus on this page is to have an existing article prior to adding it as an entry. This has been done to control the list and only include those websites that have been shown to meet the notability guidelines. If you believe Yahoo Pulse is a notable social networking website then you can submit the idea to the article for creation process or register and create it. If you decide to register a username and create it, please read the page on creating your first article prior to creating it. THis will help guide you through the process. If you need any help I am willing to help, just ask. ~~ GB fan ~~ ^talk 12:20, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Please add One Million Dollar Social Network

Not done Please add One Million Dollar Social Network mdollar.net! mDollar.net is a new online community site! Unlike other online communities, mDollar.net is an "outcome-based" network. The main goal of mDollar.net is to collect 1.000.000$ and then share it among 13 most voted members using democratic election, where each member will have one vote to use for another member. Voting for yourself is not allowed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Morzhy (talk • contribs) 13:17, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

I will repeat the advice given here to others requesting sites be added - write the article first. If the article is created, and it isn't deleted for reasons such as spamming or lack of notability then come back here and submit your request again. --Biker Biker (talk) 13:30, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from Shamitb1980, 13 July 2010

Not done

Please add this :

to the table of Social Networking sites.

Please see these links for details or proof: http://www.yourstory.in/entrepreneurs/participants/2564 http://www.iimb.ernet.in/node/1945

Shamitb1980 (talk) 08:34, 13 July 2010 (UTC) Shamit Bagchi

Have you read the threads on this page above you. We do not add entries that do not have existing articles on Wikipedia. Please write the article first ~~ GB fan ~~ ^talk 09:46, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Another request

Not done

Hi,

Please add www.manufacturinghive.com to demonstrate the growing trend of using social networking in the manufacturing industry.

Cheers ≤≥√ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Briovista (talk • contribs) 02:07, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

As we have stated over and over on this page, please write the article first and then we can add it to this page. ~~ GB fan ~~ ^talk 02:54, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Please add OneTwib

Not done

Please add http://www.onetwib.com/ to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites/swomcom.ws Name:Onetwib Description/Focus:Connect with people around you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davitz38 (talk • contribs) 09:38 UTC, 20 July 2010

Consensus on this page is that before a social networking site is added, a Wikipedia article must exist so write the article first. --Biker Biker (talk) 09:50, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Please add IPatter

Not done

IPatter is a growing social networking site aimed at both businesses and the public.

People select the businesses they are interested in and follow them, then the businesses can push offers and messages to their audience.

For more info please see the site: http://www.ipatter.com

July 28, 2010. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Soakdigital (talk • contribs) 11:18, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Write the article first is the consensus before sites can be listed here. --Biker Biker (talk) 11:25, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Please update CaringBridge number

Done

The registered users number for CaringBridge is outdated. The up-to-date number is in their latest press release (http://www.caringbridge.org/nr_20100728). Could the CaringBridge Registered Users number be updated to 9.5 million? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.199.190.193 (talk) 21:54, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for providing an updated reference. --Biker Biker (talk) 06:50, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Added launch date

I've added a launch date column to the article. I'm not going through them all, but I'll fill in a few of them. Feel free to help! I don't think citations will be needed unless the date is not cited on the network's article. --Dan Leveille^TALK 19:08, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Please include WWW.SMASSH.ORG

Not done

WWW.SMASSH.ORG is a new social networking site soft launched 15 July 2010 and already has nearly 600 members in a matter of days. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.smassh.org there is our alexa rank going down a million or so a day if not more. There is a massive update being conducted by a professional company and a major marketing campaign ready to launch as soon as it is complete. It will allow musicians to post their music and videos, be rated and we will have a Idol contest with a $10,000 grand prize for the winner

Models can post their profiles and advertise for work in their area

Businesses can advertise their specials and stream live video of their events

Events from all over the nation will be loaded into the events section

Its based on a google platform so you can get direction walking, driving or public transortation.

All of this with the added bonus of being a social networking site makes it the ultimate online community for night life:) Trent (talk) 08:13, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

If it doesn't have a Wikipedia article then it doesn't get listed in this article. See WP:WTAF. --Biker Biker (talk) 08:36, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

The article for this listing was created by the requesting user, above (Rvtrent), then deleted (by me) three hours later. UltraExactZZ ^Said~ Did 12:30, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

So I am pretty confused above they say you have to create an article to have your site on this list and that if you start the article editors will help with it and not delete it. But that is exactly what happened. WP:WTAF clearly states that we must first start an article and if the article was deleted for the site not being worthy. Then ok but the site in 2 weeks has more members than 50% of the sites on the list and a higher alexa ranking as well. Growth wise it is actually growing faster than facebook did when it launched with almost 600 members in 2 weeks. So what am i supposed to do here? Trent (talk) 20:00, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Tough break, I sympathise, although if I had seen the article I myself may have tagged it for deletion if it had been unreferenced or didn't clearly indicate why the site is so important. Generally a website or organisation that is very new will nearly always get deleted unless it is special for some reason. Rather than worry about getting your site listed here, why not work to get a good article created? Write it in your userspace first of all, make sure it has some really good references - all from reliable third parties such as news websites or magazine articles. When you are sure it is good enough and it meets the notability guide for companies etc. then cut it loose by moving to a regular article. If you have done your job right it will survive. One thing you need to be aware of those - and it is a biggie - if you are in any way connected with the site (and it looks like you are) then you need to read and understand WP:COI as people here don't take kindly to self-promotion and advertising which is what writing an article about your own organisation is considered to be. --Biker Biker (talk) 20:17, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Interpals

Not done

why interpals in not in the list? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.202.63.13 (talk) 02:22, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

It is not on the list because no one has ever written an article about the site. ~~ GB fan ~~ ^talk 04:08, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Consider Including http://www.flicker.pk

Not done

Consider inclusion of Flicker. This site has been made primarily for Pakistani audience but everyone is welcome.

The site offers a new level of photo sharing. Chat with friends, free online games, lot of desi jokes, make social groups, create your own pages and blogs, join forums and share your photos, videos and music. Read and share jokes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Flicker pk (talk • contribs) 02:52, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

No. 1) You are clearly connected with the site and therefore have a conflict of interest. 2) There is no article for the site on Wikipedia. No article = no listing here. See WP:WTAF. --Biker Biker (talk) 06:29, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Add GovLoop?

Done

GovLoop already has a wikipedia entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.103.249.251 (talk) 14:40, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

I added a basic entry for GovLoop ~~ GB fan ~~ ^talk 14:49, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Suggestion: GayRomeo

Resolved

Please consider adding GayRomeo.com

It a social networking website, virtual community and dating website for gays (18 years old and older).

It has more than 6,712,000 registered profiles and more than 1,106,000 active user profiles (live data from their website: use their search engine to see data), which means users logged in the past 6 weeks. The last data they published about profiles was last 10 February 2010 and it can be found here (5,740,000 registered and 1,015,000 active).

It was launched in 2002 and at this moment it ranks 1,272 in Alexa as it shown here. The link also shows 4 other gay websites that could be added to this list (Gaydar, Adam4adam, Gay.com and Manhunt), but I don't know where to find their data.

The main brand is GayRomeo, but it is also known as PlanetRomeo (especially in Asia). Gayromeo.com and planetromeo.com land in the same website with the same database (it only changes the name displayed and the main picture of the layout).

You can find the Wikipedia article here: GayRomeo.

Thanks for considering it.

62.132.60.170 (talk) 13:05, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

The site is certainly notable and it meets the chief criteria for listing here in that it has an article on Wikipedia. However, the intro paragraph in the list excludes dating websites which have their own list at List of online dating websites. GayRomeo is not part of that list so in the first instance I would suggest adding it there. If it can be established that dating is not the primary function of GayRomeo and that its social networking functions are equal or greater than the dating aspect then perhaps it could be listed in this article too. However, right now the article seems to imply it is primarily a dating site. --Biker Biker (talk) 14:19, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

You're right, it's more about dating than social networking. Although they have more than 1.1 million user profiles, they have only 8,000 group profiles. I will ad the website to the list of dating websites. So please dismiss this suggestion. Thanks for your time.

62.132.60.170 (talk) 09:52, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from Foonet, 16 August 2010

Not done

Please add http://www.livingfile.com as an activity-based social network.

Foonet (talk) 14:01, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

I can not find a current article for Livingfile or living file. The consensus on this page is to have an existing article first. If the site is notable, please write the article first. If you need assistance you can submit a draft to the article for creation process. I will also leave a welcome message with links to help you. ~~ GB fan ~~ ^talk 14:27, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Please Add Arkayne.com

Not done

Its officially called Arkayne Socialize launched May 2009.

This is a social networking site for blogs and websites. I've included some notes and links to help you make a decision.

Here is a sample social profile: http://www.arkayne.com/brianshaler/

Here is the Denver Post using it: http://www.arkayne.com/denverpost/

Here is Arizona State University using it: http://www.arkayne.com/asu/

Here is the free signup: https://www.arkayne.com/register/free/

Here is the video from Vator Splash: http://blog.arkayne.com/paul-discusses-arkayne-socialize-at-vator-splash

Thank you for the consideration.

68.110.116.171 (talk) 02:23, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Once again as we have stated multiple times on this talk page, the consensus is that we only add entries if they already have an article on WIkipedia. This site does not currently have a entry. If you feel that the site meets our notability guidelines, please create an account and create the article or submit a request to the articles for creation process. Thanks. ~~ GB fan ~~ ^talk 02:53, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Roblox

Not done

Should Roblox be added? It has ~10 million users, and is unique in it targeting of kinds 7-14 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.204.146.37 (talk) 05:14, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

if you are talking about this article, Roblox, then it does not appear to belong. The article says it is a massively multiplayer online game, it does not talk about it being a social network site. ~~ GB fan ~~ ^talk 06:01, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from Headphoney, 14 September 2010

{{edit semi-protected}}

Please consider adding folkdirect.com with the following information:

Headphoney (talk) 11:05, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Done Thanks, Stickee (talk) 12:15, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from Headphoney, 14 September 2010

Registration detail for recent folkdirect.com addition: "Open to people 16 and older"

Headphoney (talk) 14:53, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Done added thanks ~~ GB fan ~~ 15:01, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Please add Critikz

Name: Critikz Description/Focus: Your Talent - Acting, Modeling, Music, Sports, Entertainment Date launched: 2010 Registered users: N/A Registration: Open Alexa Global: 14,990,700

url: http://critikz.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Critikz (talk • contribs) 18:10, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Not done, no article, no entry, please write the article first ~~ GB fan ~~ 18:40, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Furry4Life: Fantasy Social Network for Furries

Please add Furry4Life to the list? name: Furry4Life Description/Focus: Social Network for furries in the fantasy/sci-fi community. Date launched: August 2008 Registered users: 9,259 as of 9/21/2010 Registration: Open to people 13 and older Global Alexa[1] Page ranking: Alexa Traffic Rank: 941,789 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.215.96.2 (talk) 16:09, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Not done As has been stated many times on this talk page, please write the article first ~~ GB fan ~~ 16:51, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from Froggiemedia, 22 September 2010

{{edit semi-protected}} on the list of social networking sites, Twitter is listed as 11 under the Global Alexa Page ranking section, but since the page was last updated, Twitter has moved to number 10. http://www.alexa.com/topsites is the scource.

Froggiemedia (talk) 14:28, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Done Updated. Thanks, Stickee (talk) 14:32, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Steam Community

It has its own section in the Steam article. It has features seen in many social networking site and most of the information is in that section. --Loompyloompy313 (talk) 16:10, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Same Old Another Request - for Todleho

Hi there,

Please consider inclusion of www.todleho.com to mark benchmark a new social interaction of friends, consumer reviews that can save lives and information for the masses.

Thanks --Sudip 04:48, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Not done, same answer as many before, please write the article first ~~ GB fan ~~ 06:23, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Please Add wallsocial.com

Please Add a new social network www.wallsocial.com PR1 Alexa 210000, business, play games, friends, blogs, events, store, classifieds, groups, gift, winks, and more. All free, Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fafonet (talk • contribs) 15:05, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Not done after you write the article and show that it is notable then we will add it to the list. ~~ GB fan ~~ 15:23, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from Pmousavi, 24 September 2010

{{edit semi-protected}} Please add the following Community to this list of social networking websites: Name = ShareHalloween,URL = http://sharehalloween.com, Date launched = 2009, Registration = Open. Thanks.

Pmousavi (talk) 02:37, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Not done: After you write the article and show that it is notable then we will add it to the list. Thanks, Stickee (talk) 03:13, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from Snurock, 29 September 2010

{{edit semi-protected}} Florida-Friends is a Social Networking site for local people in the Florida state that would like to meet others for friendship. Sport activities, recreational programs, nightlife and socializing with others who may have similar interest. The site is free and it prohibits and dating, business, or illegal activities.

This site is strictly for platonic relationships between equal or opposite genders. You can search by zip codes.

All personal and private contact information is never released, published or sold to any outside marketing sources. Members obtain a free profile and after verification and approval are allowed to contact other members through a secure internal site messaging service where the other member will respond through the same service without ever revealing their private contact information.

This site was developed in 2008 with the aspiration of becoming a popular social networking site for local people who desire to meet other local people in Florida.

The site is Free with no hidden costs. For more information please visit:

http://www.Florida-Friends.com

Snurock (talk) 16:24, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Not done: After you write the article and show that it is notable then we will add it to the list. Thanks, Stickee (talk) 16:29, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from StatusStalker, 1 October 2010

{{edit semi-protected}} Please add StatusStalker.com Date Launched: 2009 Global Alexa Page Rating:1,017,508 http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/statusstalker.com#

StatusStalker (talk) 21:16, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Not done: After you write the article and show that it is notable then we will add it to the list. Thanks, Stickee (talk) 16:29, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from Harbutt, 6 October 2010

{{edit semi-protected}} ==Out-dated data==

I know Alexa rank changes all of the time but some of these are way off. For example Taltopia has a stated rank of 52,759, but in reality has a score of 225,000. Much of this info is out of date, for example Fillos de Galicia does not seem to be active any more and Amie Street just links to an amazon store. Harbutt (talk) 13:52, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

I have removed the two sites you mention because they do not appear to be active sites anymore. If you have updates to the Alexa rankings I am willing to update them. Just post the changes here with the reference. Thanks for the help in making this better. ~~ GB fan ~~ 15:38, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from Dippas86, 6 October 2010

{{edit semi-protected}} ! iOrbix | General. | June 2010 | more than 10000 | Open to people 13 Years and up | 309,417^[4] |-

Dippas86 (talk) 16:30, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Not done, no article no entry, please write the article first and show that the site is notable ~~ GB fan ~~ 17:42, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from Nunoperalta, 18 October 2010

Nuno Peralta (talk) 02:06, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Not done Please create the article first, making sure that you cite reliable third party sources. Netalarm^talk 02:15, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Add this as one of social networking websites

Try http://www.filipina4friends.com it's totally FREE, no REGISTRATION needed. Please try also http://www.darlingasian.com and http://www.beautifulfilipina.info —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.54.92.102 (talk) 14:10, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Not done, if you read the talk page you will see we do not add sites that do not have articles. ~~ GB fan ~~ 14:19, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

TG Blue

Could TG Blue Social Network go here? (www.tgblue.co.cc)

--Tjrtr0 (talk) 18:45, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

I looked and don't see an existing article. The consensus on the page is that entries must have an article prior to being added to this page. If you create an article that shows the network is notable then it can be added here. ~~ GB fan ~~ 04:14, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Request to add net business site

Can you add this website into your list? APSense Business Social Network http://www.apsense.com

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Apsense (talk • contribs) 08:19, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Not done I can not find an existing article for Apsense. The consensus on the page is that entries must have an existing article about them before they are added to the page. ~~ GB fan ~~ 09:21, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Is ranking necessary?

I second Harbutt (in the Out-of-Date thread) in questioning Alexa rankings. As a web administrator with access to direct analytics, I know that Alexa is rarely ever close to being accurate. Better choices for ranking (in order of accuracy, based on my own experience) would be Quantcast, Ranking.com and Compete. Even these can be off by a significant margin. Since membership numbers for this list are also provided, is ranking even necessary?

Puroprana (talk) 20:35, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

request to add http://jackthedonkey.com, the community where your time online supports the charity of your choice freely, now with http://igiveapoop.com promoting indie music that drives change to charities we give a poop about

source: http://socialmediatoday.com/SMC/199443

Jackthedonkey (talk) 18:55, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Not done Please create the article first. Netalarm^talk 05:31, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Can you please add a new social networking site for food - Yumflix

Yumflix is a recently launched social networking site that is all about food. Can you please add Yumflix to the list of social networking sites. Thanks!Irwingirl (talk) 06:09, 19 December 2010 (UTC)IrwingirlIrwingirl (talk) 06:09, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Not done As has been mentioned multiple times above, we only add entries to the page if they have an existing article. I can not find an article on {{Yumflix]] so it does not belong on the page. ~~ GB fan ~~ 06:46, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

You may want to add healthstaffconnect.com

according to a press release from the site's developer "Masterlink Interactive, a Dallas Web Design firm http://www.masterlink.com, proudly announces the completion of a fresh, new web design for Health Staff Connect http://www.healthstaffconnect.com, a free "healthcare professionals only" online community and networking resource. The new website, built on the Kentico Microsoft .NET platform CMS, includes professional social networking capabilities. It serves full time, part time, temporary, contract, or any other employment disposition; one click could connect visitors to hundreds or thousands of qualified candidates/employers in their local area. The first professional networking site open exclusively to those within any branch of the healthcare community.

It already has 300,000 members. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.123.98.129 (talk) 20:24, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Not done As has been mentioned multiple times above, we only add entries to the page if they have an existing article. I can not find an article, so it does not belong on the page. ~~ GB fan ~~ 02:12, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

{{Hey Fella}} I didn't read through all the other posts above. I wasn't in here to be interactive, just dropping you a dime so your page could be updated. When a page has been created, I suppose I'll let you know. Maybe it would be prudent for you to write your rule somewhere it would visible to EVERYONE coming in here trying to help you and your article out!— Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.123.98.129 (talk • contribs)

It was actually done earlier today. Anyone that edits this page will see a warning about requesting something to be added when the article hasn't been created. Netalarm^talk 05:50, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

You may want to add forrst.com

This is a invite-only social network sites for developers and/or designers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jigjig81 (talk • contribs) 20:39, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Not done As has been mentioned multiple times above, we only add entries to the page if they have an existing article. I can not find an article, please write the article first. ~~ GB fan ~~ 19:07, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

You may want to add dribbble.com

This is a social network site for designers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jigjig81 (talk • contribs) 18:29, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Not done As has been mentioned multiple times above, we only add entries to the page if they have an existing article. I can not find an article, please write the article first. ~~ GB fan ~~ 19:07, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

100MM+ users on Myspace

Hi there-- I just updated the Myspace user numbers to 100MM+. I also added a more recent cite to back this up--however, I left the old citing as well (I think it stated 130MM users) since 130MM is more than 100+; the number given by Myspace in the article I cited. I'm not sure if that was the right thing to do or not--but I didn't want to "undo" anybody's research from past contributions. Does anybody have advice about what you do in situations such as this? Do I delete the old citing and keep my more recent one? Or do I keep both of the citings? Please advise, Thanks! --Magentabanana (talk) 00:11, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from 76.177.98.115, 29 December 2010

SwagginWagon.com

| Social networking site for Musicians,Artists,Fans,Photographers,Graphic Artists,Dating & More! | | 211,000^[6] | Open

29 December 2010</ref>

76.177.98.115 (talk) 23:46, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Not done, consensus is to have an article before it is added to the page. I do not see a current article for this site. ~~ GB fan ~~ 23:59, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from Maurodst, 5 January 2011

Not done, consensus is to have an article before it is added to the page. The article was speedy deleted. ~ Matthewrbowker ^{Say hi!} 02:33, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

A good list

Hi! If you want other good list, see www.zwerty.com/list_all.htm. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zwertysn (talk • contribs) 18:14, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Facebook

Facebook is NOT a general purpose social network. People thinks and want it but the owners say that "is for your friends who you know in person" and ban people trying to socialize. In my oppinion facebook is NTo s social networks but... the true thing is they dont want a general purpose one. Oppinions do not matteer. Its their words. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.56.8.158 (talk) 13:54, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

How can I add to this list? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.218.134.85 (talk) 08:34, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

This probably belongs in the Facebook article not here if you have a reliable source that verfies the information. ~~ GB fan ~~ 12:27, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Add GoSecure.com

Please add GoSecure.com to the list. (http://www.gosecure.com/) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.95.85.174 (talk) 22:52, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Not done, consensus is to have an article before it is added to the page. I do not see a current article for this site. ~~ GB fan ~~ 02:48, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Add fields "profile sold" (or such) and "fee"

Please add some (very important) fields to the table:

is your profile data "sold" (to advertising companies) (= will you be bombarded by advertisements)
fee(s for different levels of service) (in money)—Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.95.85.174 (talk) 22:58, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

We would need to have reliable sources for this information to be added. DO you know of any reliable sources that discuss the information? ~~ GB fan ~~ 02:49, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Tencent QQ 636.6 million as of 2010 - biggest of them all

As of September 30, 2010, the active QQ users accounts for QQ IM amounted to 636.6 million^[9], possibly making it the world's largest online community. (The number of simultaneous online QQ accounts exceeded 100 million^[10].) Quiname (talk) 22:08, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Incredibly, the biggest of them all is still missing from the list. So I'd like to add: Tencent: General. Micro-blogging, IM, RSS, updates. 1998. 636.6 million^[11]^[12]. Open. Quiname (talk) 20:22, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

^ [1] 13 December 2009
^ InfoTech News Article June 2010
^ Alexa Traffic Details for folkdirect.com in Pakistan 14 September 2010
^ Alexa Traffic Details for iOrbix.com 06 October 2010
^ Alexa Traffic Details for Iorbix.com 18 October 2010
^ homepage
^ Beeeper.net homepage
^ Alexa Traffic Details for beeeper.net 10 October 2010
^ "About Tencent". Tencent.com. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
^ "腾讯QQ最新24小时在线数据". Im.qq.com. Retrieved 2011-01-14.
^ Fletcher, Owen (November 10, 2010). Wall Street Journal. NYC http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703805004575606001085011236.html. Retrieved January 23, 2011. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ Lee, Mark (November 10, 2010). "Tencent Profit Rises 52% on China Online Games Sales". Bloomberg. NYC. Retrieved January 23, 2011.

You are an autoconfirmed user so you have the ability to add the information yourself. Remember the only requirements are that the entry must be linked to the article about the social network. ~~ GB fan ~~ 20:31, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Hold on a second, though - Tencent is the company, not the social networking website, which means it shouldn't be in this list. Tencent's social networking site Qzone is already in the list, and Tencent QQ is an IM service rather than a website, and is listed in Comparison of instant messaging clients. Does Tencent have another social networking website in addition to Qzone? --bonadea contributions talk 20:36, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Hm, this comment also seems to affect many other entries in the list, for example, Twitter. Quiname (talk) 20:42, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

In fact, this source of 2 years ago already mentions 200 million for QZone (out of date by now) and says: "To be frank, we don’t even know if the comparison flies because we’re not sure where QQ the communication (IM) service ends and where QZone the social network begins.": http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/24/chinas-social-network-qzone-is-big-but-is-it-really-the-biggest/ Quiname (talk) 20:59, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

I removed the entry because the linked article was not to a social network but a publicly-owned holding company whose subsidiaries provide internet and mobile phone value-added services and operate online advertising services. This entry does not belong as added. ~~ GB fan ~~ 23:12, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

By this reasoning we'd have to remove Twitter as well. See sources cited above. Quiname (talk) 19:58, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

No, Twitter is the name of the website, owned and operated by Twitter, Inc. Since the Qzone website, owned and operated by Tencent Holdings, is listed here, I'm not even sure what your complaint is. As Bonadea asked you above, "Does Tencent have another social networking website in addition to Qzone?" — Satori Son 20:05, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

As stated above, the problem is to define the boundary between IM and social network. I'll start using the neutral term "online community" instead. I made a list of online communities with more than 100 million users. Quiname (talk) 20:50, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

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