This is an attempt to catalog social networks that are out there.
43 Things achieves socialization via goal tag matching. You set your goals/wishes, and you’ll get matched to people that are similar to yourself.
Adogato is a open source developers community site, where each developer gets ranked for “trust” by other members.
Social site dedicated to Chechens lives and culture.
Social network dedicated to booklovers. List books, share thoughts and ideas. Meet people.
Generic social network with user profiles, private messages, posts. This is a closed network, one can join by the invitation only.
Multilingual social network, which allows connecting at local and global levels.
Bebo is a social media network where friends share their lives and explore great entertainment.
Niche social network targeted for African American community. Place to meet friends, lovers and create networks.
Social network site allows users to find, save and share interesting Web content with friends and family.
Social Video Network where people can post and share their video clips or live video stream using their webcams.
Social media network that allows users to program dynamic multimedia communities around the music and pop culture topics they are most passionate about.
CarDomain is an online community for auto enthusiasts. Web site offers a wide variety of tools that give auto enthusiasts the ability to customize their experience and share their passion with one another.
Care2 is a social network for activists. Whether you’re passionate about green living, health, human rights or protecting the environment, Care2 is for you.
Social networking web site connecting members with friends and acquaintances from school, work and the military.
It’s a social network, an online hang out, and a contest of wits. Resembles a dating site with tag and location search.
CouchSurfing seeks to internationally network people and places, create educational exchanges. This is a free hospitality exchange.
CyWorld is South Korean web community site where members cultivate on- and off-line relationships by forming buddy relationships with each other through a service called mini-homepage.
Dandelife is a social biography network. You can use Dandelife to create your own personal biography and then share that with the rest of the world.
Neighborhoods need better communication. eNeighbors is the first online communication tool designed specifically for neighborhoods and their residents. USA only at the moment.
Pixelart-based Internet city created to host and facilitate all your relationships.
This is a parenting destination offering Moms and Dads a new, engaging, and innovative way to connect online with other parents, extended family, babysitters, and pretty much anyone else that you may need in raising your children. Features “Familylog”, Photo-video sharing, Receipe sharing, Event planning and calendar, Groups and Marketplace.
Social network for parents. ParentsConnect, a parenting Web site by the same folks who bring you Noggin, Nick Jr., Nickelodeon, Nick@Nite and The N. All features parents need to share their experience and seek for advice. Lots of fun stuff for kids too.
VirtualTourist is a worldwide travel community where real travelers and locals share real travel advice and experiences.
LinkedIn is an online network of more than 16 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries.
Hi5 is a global brand for young people, where over 50 million members have established accounts and personal pages. Hi5 provides a platform for established artists, underground talent, and everyday people to all gain prominence amongst a worldwide audience.
Flixster is a community for movie fans. The Flixster movie community includes movie ratings and showtimes, movie reviews, movie layouts, movie pics & posters, movie news, video clips, movie fan clubs, actor profiles and fan clubs, celebrity news, celebrity photos, celebrity layouts, and the never ending movie quiz.
Network for business professionals. Find businesses, partners, employers, employees. All 100% free.
Is a social network that can help you maintain existing relationships with pictures and messages, and establish new ones by reaching out to people you’ve never met before.
Jookster is social search engine that allows you to discover cool user generated content. They collect photos, videos and bookmarks from sites like YouTube, Flickr and del.icio.us. Jookster then puts it all in one place for you to search, save and share with your friends.
mySociety is a community which consists of a small paid core of developers in the middle of a larger crowd of volunteers, friends, and supporters. mySociety builds websites which give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives.
Engage is a blend between a social network and a dating website. You meet people you friends introduce to you and also provide feedback and recommendations.
Combining a social network and a virtual world, Kaneva brings profiles and entertainment to the 3D realm in a modern-day, online digital world full of real friends and good times. Kaneva provides a whole new way — a more human way — to connect with friends.
WAYN helps you to keep track of all your contacts from around the world and make new friends based on where you are now, where you have been and where you are going
Mig33 is a global mobile Internet community.
Allows building your family tree online. You can search online user base or regional public records. Allows DNA based matching.
Club Penguin is a safe virtual world for kids to play, interact with friends and have fun letting their imaginations soar.
Jaiku’s main goal is to bring people closer together by enabling them to share their activity streams. An activity stream is a log of everyday things as they happen: your status messages, recommendations, events you’re attending, photos you’ve taken - anything you post directly to Jaiku or add using Web feeds.
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates via SMS, instant messaging, email, to the Twitter website, or any one of the multitude of Twitter applications now available”. Twitter asks the question, “What are you doing?” and allows you to send a small update (limited to just 140 characters) to your followers.
Family genealogy and social network. Rapidly growing, collected 5 million profiles in the first five months after launch.
Geni’s clone, but seems to be more popular. Ported to different languages.
Original German name (and web site) for “It’s our three”