Best social networking sites

Today my post will be on Top "Best social networking sites"Social networking sites are doing more than one another to get on the top


Here is the list of some Popular and well know social networking sites and information on them:


Facebook 
With Facebook officially turning five years old recently, combined with the site surging past MySpace in Monthly Unique Visitors, it seems like a good time to take a little deeper look at the social networking giants.

It’s hard to believe that last year around this time we discussing the effects of bad PR for Facebook and if the site had ‘jumped the shark,’ but those arguments now seem to more appropriately apply to other properties.Facebook has now became the largest social networking site in 2009.Ranked at number 4th spot according to AlexaOrkut:
A social networking site sponsored by Google and named after Google developer Orkut Buyukkokten. Launched in early 2004, Orkut was originally an invitation-only site, but was later opened to the general public. Membership exceeded 40 million users within two years.For some reason the graph of orkut has gone down in 2009Myspace:
MySpace ( myspace.com) is an online social networking service, allowing users to share messages, interests and photos with a growing body of friends. Users can send emails, post videos, listen to music, and write blogs; the site also includes classified ads and posting of events. Currently one of the top ten Internet sites, MySpace was founded in July 2003 by Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe.Its Alexa ranking is 11Twitter:
A Web site and service that lets users send short text messages up to 140 characters in length from their cellphones to a group of people. Launched in 2006, Twitter www.twitter.com) was designed to keep friends and colleagues informed about one's daily activities.Its alexa rank is"40"Flixster:
Flixster is a social networking site for movie fans. Users can create their own profiles, invite friends, rate movies and actors, and post movie reviews as well.Linkedin:
With more than 30 million users representing 150 industries around the world, LinkedIn is a fast-growing professional networking site that allows members to create business contacts, search for jobs, and find potential clients.Hi5:
hi5, was launched in 2003 and is now one of the world’s largest social networks — ranked by Alexa® as a top 34 website globally and the #1 social network in more than 25 countries across Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. hi5 is also the #1 social network for the world’s Spanish-language population.

A year ago, we ranked the top 25 social networking sites by monthly visits, and I was curious to see how the positions would change if we re-ranked those same sites with the most recent figures

Some key metrics in the health of a social network revolve around the activity of the user base – visits per unique visitor and time on site. While Facebook has excelled in both areas, MySpace has remained flat or fallen off, with new hot property Twitter climbing the ranks.
Some key metrics in the health of a social network revolve around the activity of the user base – visits per unique visitor and time on site. While Facebook has excelled in both areas, MySpace has remained flat or fallen off, with new hot property Twitter climbing the ranks.


Some key metrics in the health of a social network revolve around the activity of the user base – visits per unique visitor and time on site. While Facebook has excelled in both areas, MySpace has remained flat or fallen off, with new hot property Twitter climbing the ranks. 

Sony bringing official PlayStation app to iPhone and Android

Over in Europe, PlayStation fans are getting a treat in the form of mobile apps for iPhone and Android. No, the app won't turn your phone into a PSP, but it does sync up with your PlayStation Network account, which allows you to check trophies and see which of your friends are online. It also loads up announcements about new PlayStation titles. Predictably, there's also social networking, so you can do some volunteer Facebook and Twitter advertising for games you like.

The catch: this app doesn't have a US release date yet. In fact, only the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands will get it at launch. On the plus side, the app is free, and an upcoming version will let you comment on the PlayStation blog. 

Facebook introduces new privacy controls for mobile users

Facebook continues to tweak privacy controls for users, and now they've added mobile access to your privacy settings. The new mobile privacy settings include a list of every application you use, sorted by the last time each app accessed your information. From this list, you can fine-tune the access level of each app individually.

Within each app's settings, you can decide whether or not to grant it access to your profile info, friends' info, Places check-ins and photos. This is a long-awaited addition to the existing privacy controls that rolled out over the summer, and allowed you to control everything but apps.

This update works on the Facebook mobile website, m.facebook.com, but the Facebook iPhone app still loads up the full website in a mini-browser when you want to adjust your settings.

Facebook updates profile page with 'snapshot' and LinkedIn-style features

Facebook has just begun rolling out an update to the Facebook profile page, its main focal point for finding more information, photos and commenting on the walls of your friends. Your profile now features a 'snapshot' of your life right at the top of the page, essentially summarizing key details with two lines of bullet points and a string of five photos. The bullet point descriptors are taken from your profile information and feature your current relationship status, your place of education, your home town, date of birth and current job -- in essence, all the information that Facebook thinks is required to define you in one quick glance. The string of photos are pulled from recently tagged photos, but you can click a little 'X' to hide an image from your profile page -- phew!

If you happen to have very few pieces of information in your profile, the snapshot can be a little lacking, but that's not the only thing Facebook has put some work into. The Education and Work section of your profile has also been beefed up, taking on a much more LinkedIn-style of job titles, recent projects, colleagues you worked with and so forth. You can add more of your work or education history as well, documenting your learned skills and featuring certain achievements. With employers using Facebook to vet potential job candidates, perhaps it could be helpful to get your skills up there to counteract the hideous drunken photos from your mate's stag party last year.

Of course it's not all work, work, work on Facebook -- the other information features of your profile also having been given a make over, with 'experiences' being the buzz word and pictures featuring heavily. Under 'Arts and Entertainment' you can choose to feature artists, books, TV programs and films that you particularly like in an album art-type display, with each item taking you to a fan page for that film, program, artist or book. Activities and Sports also got a major overhaul, becoming a much bigger part of your profile in a similar way to your work information. You can choose to feature certain activities you're interested in or sports you play, add a little description and tag people who you play with. Drag-and-drop organization has also been implemented, which means you can order your featured interests according to your preferences. Now you can show you're a die-hard supporter of your local third division football team.