Worldwide social network. Social networks on the Internet: what they are and how to use them
VKontakte is perhaps the largest network not only in Russia, but throughout Europe. Its creator, Pavel Durov, initially planned in 2006 to create a place for students to communicate. But after some time it began to gain popularity and was no longer intended only for a specific category of the population.
Every year the site changed to suit modern trends. Free music gradually faded away due to subscriptions and various bans. Online broadcasts, advertising, and even money transfer services began to appear.
A new round of development for the company was caused by the departure of Pavel Durov, the creator of the Network. Most of the controlling stake passed to MailGroup in 2014. And although many did not like the changes: design, availability of music and much more, the network continues to remain at the peak of popularity today. More than 80 million people visit it every day.
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Odnoklassniki appeared in the same year as the giant VK. And they began to gain enormous popularity. At that time, it was the only place where one could find long-time friends and classmates from all over the world. That's why this domain name was chosen for the site.
After the surge in popularity of VK, Odnoklassniki began to be considered a social network for the older generation. Indeed, according to statistics, about 56% of users are people from 25 to 46 years old. In total, the site is visited every day by about 42 million users.
From 2008 to 2010, paid registration was implemented. The account could have been accidentally deleted and you would have had to pay money to register. This caused a massive outflow of users to other social networks, including VKontakte. But by 2010, this practice was abandoned and returned to the free mode.
Odnoklassniki moved to a more concise OK domain, similar to VK. The site is still owned by the same MailGroup.
Possibilities:
- Sending messages between users, adding to contacts.
- Creation of forums and groups, participation in them.
- Money transfers.
- Search for people using certain parameters.
- Live broadcasts.
- Messenger OK Messages.
The portal appeared much earlier than its competitors, but was never able to gain popularity. Today, only 18 million people are registered in it.
It belongs to the company “Cyril and Methodius”, which produces multimedia educational products, teaching aids and various reference books. During the entire period of work, she changed three domain names: classmate.km.ru in 2003, odnoklassniki.km.ru in 2007 and vkrugudruzei.ru in 2008.
Because of the use of the word “oddnoklassniki,” the company’s owners had to sue representatives of the OK website. Some users expected the two services to merge into one, but the merger never happened.
The site positioned itself as a service for finding old acquaintances and classmates. It does not have any special capabilities compared to popular social networks.
[email protected] - developed by MailGroup in 2007. Initially it was intended as a service that would unite many Mail projects under a single interface. But very quickly, literally in a few months, the development grew into its own social network.
Almost every year, new functions were added to the interface that corresponded to trends: listening to music, microblog, news comments, messaging. It is obvious that the company focused primarily on the industry giants - VK and OK.
The fifth most popular site in Russia and the first in Kazakhstan. According to statistics, it is the only service where the female audience exceeds the male one.
The project appeared on the Internet back in 2006. Currently it unites 16 million users throughout Russia. It is a social media platform where you can communicate with people, create websites using a website builder, and share news.
The owners of the site are the Olanola company. They own 100% of the shares.
Initially, the service was created with the idea of finding classmates and old acquaintances. The idea was the same as other social networks. But the project did not gain popularity because the creators did not pay enough attention to its development.
As a result, It’s a Small World changed the concept of the site twice. In 2008, they refocused on the geolocation principle. Now each network participant could be found on a general map of the Google service. But the maps were undeveloped, and the site did not have its own system.
Since 2012, a new development idea came - to implement a recommendation network, where each user will be able to create their own website. And even make money from it.
Possibilities:
- Self-learning recommendation service Neuron.
- Built-in website builder.
- Earning money on the site, subject to its popularity.
- Maintaining a thematic blog.
Since the service is a dating site, in addition to a social network, you can find many paid services here: various casual games. The emphasis is on posting photos. The user can create entire galleries for viewing. Basically, this is what attracts many users to Photo Country.
Possibilities:
- Dating service.
- Casual games.
- Photo galleries.
The service has been developed since 2007. And it first appeared on the Internet in 2008. It is a simple social network for schoolchildren, teachers and parents. The purpose of the service is to modernize education for the better.
The emphasis is on education. Here you can post your class schedule, homework and monitor its completion. Teachers can write messages to students, send schedules and homework. Children - share news with each other, make their own schedule, do homework. Well, parents should monitor their child’s progress.
At the moment, more than half of Russian schools have joined the project and are required to register students.
Social networks have become a part of the lives of Internet users. Many people have no idea how they lived before they appeared. And now they devote all their free time to communicating with virtual friends. Therefore, startupers and developers are trying to create new ones, become leaders in the network and even overtake Facebook. Every year new projects appear, both for mothers and housewives, as well as for admirers of literature and music. Today there are six interesting social networks that are worthy of your attention.
And although it seems that existing social networks will always be popular, in reality this is not true. For example, not long ago the social network Instagram was created and in a short time it gathered a huge audience. By the way, instead of Instagram you can use an interesting online service. A large number of interesting online services are gradually being created around popular sites.
New social network #1 - Bookish.
On the social network you can discuss your favorite literary works and buy books. The network was created with the support of large publishing houses - Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group and Penguin Group. The main goal of the project is to unite the author of the book and the reader. On the social network you can read excerpts from books, interviews with authors, as well as user reviews. If a user is interested in a book, he can purchase it; he just needs to follow the link to local stores or Amazon. The network interface is very convenient, which allows you to find the author you like by any means. But Bookish will only be useful for English-speaking users and “reading enthusiasts.”
The network database consists of two million books, as well as four hundred thousand pages with information about the authors.
New social network No. 2 - Fancy.
While this social network is popular in the United States, few people know about it in other countries. However, this service is growing quickly. And this is expected, since the creators and. Users are encouraged to search for unique items online, collect them in a specific location, and make purchases. Thus, the Fancy network is both a blog, an online store, and a community of like-minded people who follow fashion, buy designer items and jewelry, and also collect photographs of exotic countries. The user can not only exchange images, but also buy those things that are captured on them. There are not many visitors yet, only about 250 thousand registered users. However, the popularity of the network is growing, as the team has developed not only a web interface, but also mobile applications for iOS and .
New social network No. 3 - Icebergs.
For now, the service is just getting ready to launch, so if you want to become a member of the network, leave a request for testing. But it is not yet known when the project will start.
New social network No. 4 - Medium.
Twitter developers decided to open a new social network. It was created so that each user can evaluate their information contribution. That is, you offer content to the network, such as photos, and Medium collects similar data from other users. Anyone can add information or view it. The network issues messages by rating, and not in the traditional chronological order. The content is divided into collections, each with templates and themes for downloading materials. Authorization occurs via Twitter. Therefore, any microblog user can place a post in a thematic collection.
New social network #5 - Vine.
So far, this service does not look like a full-fledged social network, but perhaps it will soon become so. Currently, this is an application for mobile devices with which you can create short six-second videos. This service was acquired by Twitter back in October last year, but it only launched in January 2013. About 100 thousand users use the service. But it also appealed to corporate clients. Popular brands are starting to take a closer look at the new service.
New social network No. 6 - Zeen.
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Tumblr is a microblogging service with social networking elements that allows users to post text messages, images, videos, links, quotes and audio recordings to their tumblr, a short-format blog. Post whatever you want. Share photos, videos, quotes, chats, links and text posts.
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Badoo
Fill your life: communicate, flirt, meet new people and have fun! Among millions of users, find those you like. Chat with new friends! Badoo is already the world's largest and fastest growing social network for meeting new people.
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Foursquare
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2ch.hk (Two.h)
Two.ch is a forum system where you can communicate quickly and freely, where any point of view has the right to life. There is no registration and no need to subscribe, although this does not relieve you of the need to follow the rules. All forums (except for /B/red), and their list is below, have their own clearly limited topics. In a word, everything that is not prohibited by the rules of a particular forum and relates to its topic is permitted on this forum.
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Surfingbird
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MillionStatus
The funniest statuses for classmates, new and funny VKontakte statuses, statuses about love, life and mood. Only the best and new statuses for icq or qip.
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Get-Styles
The service allows you to easily and quickly change your design theme for the VKontakte social network, without any specific knowledge! More than 800 different designs, themes. Choose any!
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Nekto.me
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PinME
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Full of energy
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eNeighbors
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Classmates
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Friend around
A convenient service for communicating and finding new friends, which will show who is near you. Here you can download the FriendVokrug app for free on your phone or computer.
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Nirvana.FM
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Netlog
Netlog is a young community through which users can stay connected and expand their social network. On Netlog you can create your own blog page, upload photos, watch videos, find events and play games.
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FileCloud
FileCloud.me - social network synchronization service! Upload, copy and synchronize your photos and files from different social networks. networks in 1 click. Do you want to conveniently upload or download music on VKontakte using the program? Copy all your albums and photos from Facebook to Odnoklassniki? Synchronize files on all social networks with each other and with your computer?
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No collective farm
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The world is me
Worldis.me is a network for comfortable communication, with rich communication and convenient management. Read and speak out: opinions, blogs with photos, videos and music. Chat: video chat, group chat, dating service Invitations. View and show: photos and videos. Listen to: music and online radio. Groups and communities. Custom online stores. Everything is absolutely free.
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i-Worker
iWorker.ru is the most democratic platform in the Russian segment of the Internet for forming relationships between people interested in study, work and career, where professionals can earn money with their knowledge. Every day, users of our portal actively exchange information about everything related to professional and personal development - from training courses and lessons to information about companies and employees.
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Eco-World
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In the modern Internet space, one of the key roles is played by resources that are designated by the term “social networks”. From the point of view of implementation, social networks are actually “self-developing organisms”, because This development directly depends on the users of such resources: real life is in full swing inside such sites: communication takes place, friendships/relationships are formed, someone becomes popular, communities are organized, etc. We present to your attention overview of social networks in Russia and the world, which gained the greatest popularity and united millions of armies of users under “their wing”.
For your convenience, we provide a list of all social networks included in our review. The links are clickable, and if you are too lazy to read everything, just click on the social network you are interested in :)
So here is our Top 11:
And, as you already understood, he was appointed to the role of the beginner review of the social network Badoo.com.
Badoo.com - social dating network
The site owes its appearance in 2006, as stated in the “About Us” block, to a small international group of entrepreneurs and businessmen. The birthplace of the social network is Foggy Albion, and specifically London. True, the owner of the company that developed badoo, according to Wikipedia, is Russian entrepreneur Andrey Andreev, who, like any decent Russian businessman, registered the company in Cyprus. But the point, of course, is not who owns what and where it is registered. The bottom line is that there are 311.5 million Badoo users! This is according to the site itself - it even has a special counter that “winds up” 3-4 joined users every second. I remember that several years ago VKontakte had a similar “temptation” :) But let's not talk about competitors now - the matter will come to them later.
What is the main purpose of the site? Like any social network – of course, communication. True, Badoo has a “bias”. The fact is that this is not just a “social network”. Badu is first and foremost a social dating network. Well, and as a result, communication and everything that accompanies dating.
Since the topic of dating on the Internet does not in any way reduce its relevance or popularity, hence the above-mentioned 311 million registered users. In addition to this figure, we will give a couple more.
So, statistics. The level of monthly visits to the Badoo social network floats around 150 million, each user spends an average of 12 minutes on the site.
Badoo is an international social network available in 46 languages. Which is quite reasonable, because “love is submissive to all ages.” And nationalities :) The social network is most popular among ardent Brazilians - 11.42% of all visits come from this country. According to this indicator, Russia is half as “active”, although it is also in the lead with 5.11% of total site traffic.
The social network interface is convenient, simple and clear. There is functionality that is only available for money (the so-called “premium”). Badoo definitely deserves the attention of those who want not just abstract communication, but have a specific goal: establishing (as stated on the website of the social network itself - “quick, elegant and easy”) dating, searching for a “soul mate”, relationships, a desire in general to “have a good time” time” (again, quote from Badoo). Perhaps the main limitation is age. If a user is under 18 years old, according to the rules of the Badoo social network, he does not have the right to register with it and use its functionality. Everything else that fits within the framework of decency and copyright is permitted by the site rules. So if you are already 18, but don’t have a “soulmate”, run to Badoo!
Facebook.com is the largest social network in the world
There’s probably no need to even introduce the next “mastodon” of the world of social networks. 1.4 billion people around the world at the word Facebook begin to frantically check their accounts on this international social network. 1.4 BILLION! The figure is simply unimaginable.
The social network Facebook.com has firmly secured its position as the No. 1 social network in the world and is unlikely to give up this position. Rather, on the contrary, if the hyper-ambitious plans of the youngest billionaire, and part-time creator and director of the social network Mark Zuckerberg, to “internetize” the entire 7 billion humanity of the Earth can be realized, the figure of 1400,000,000 users will increase multiple times.
So, what is Facebook and what do people use it for?
Growing out of a student project by M. Zuckerberg, launched in 2004 under the name Thefacebook.com - a site for interaction between American students - the No. 1 social network soon (in 2006) became available for registration to anyone over the age of 16. The popularity among users is due to the developed functionality of the social network (in addition to the direct ability to communicate, extensive entertainment and educational functionality, thanks to many applications, games, and communities), the ongoing development of the site (Facebook was a “pioneer” in terms of introducing many “tricks” characteristic of social networks and which made them so popular). If the reader is interested in learning more about social network No. 1, we recommend that you refer to the following reviews published on our website:
Google+: not the most successful Google project
Now let’s look at the brainchild of the Internet giant Google, namely social network called Google +.
Google has been hatching plans to create its own social network since 2003. And the implementation of these plans was very “branchy” and lengthy: attempts were made (both successful and not entirely) to absorb existing social services, their own projects were created, and then abandoned. Disparate services were united and transformed - Google, like Frankenstein, with varying enthusiasm, but still carried out a plan to create its own social “monster”. And in 2011, they finally succeeded: based on the Google Profiles, Google Circles projects, integration with Buzz and Picasa, the new social network Google Plus was born.
Initially, the social network was perceived in the Internet community very positively, even enthusiastically. Thanks to Google’s developments, the social network made it possible to organize the dissemination of information differently than other social networks (“Circles” made it possible to clearly differentiate which users would have access to this or that content); integration with Picasa made it possible to share photos uploaded to this service. It should also be noted that Google + was ahead of Facebook in introducing video chat into the social network. As a result, Google Plus was supposed to complete the formation of a “single Google space” around the user, uniting all kinds of Internet services around a Google account. But... Unfortunately, this incredibly ambitious project never became a real competitor to Facebook: despite all the obvious advantages, Google Plus did not win the love of users. One of the factors for this failure was the lack of content as “rich” as Facebook and Twitter.
More than 660 million visits monthly is a very good indicator, and, most likely, this fact will not allow Google to abandon its social project. This is also indicated by the recent update of the interface - most likely Google still has some “trump cards” and Google Plus will still compete for its place in the sun in the world of social networks.
Largest social networks: Instagram
This social network has become actively widespread thanks to its focus on mobile platforms - Instagram has been actively distributed as an application on Android and iOS devices. The popularity is also due to the choice of the “main idea,” so to speak: Instagram is primarily a network for photographs (and short videos), and only then for communication and other functions characteristic of social networks. It is around posting, rating, commenting on photos/videos that the entire scheme of the social network is built.
As of 2016, the resource instagram.com is among the 10 most visited sites in the world, and in the “profile” category - social networks - it is firmly in 3rd place: ahead only of Facebook and Vkontakte.
Well, Instagram’s monthly traffic is already in the billions – on average, it is visited 1.5 billion times a month. The most active users of Instagram are in the USA and Russia.
If the Reader is an active user of social networks and likes to take photographs with his smartphone, then the social network Instagram will fit very organically into the “social life” of such a user, adding to the collection of tools for earning “likes” and increasing subscribers.
LinkedIn.com - business social network
From entertainment and photography to serious projects: social network Linkedin.com is an example of just such a resource.
This project positions itself as the largest social network for business communication. The statistics provided on the site itself are quite impressive: there are more than 400 million registered users on Linkedin. And the geography of these users includes 200 countries. And, as Wikipedia suggests, more than 150 business sectors are represented on this business social network.
The project was born in 2003 thanks to Reed Hoffman, a billionaire, writer, entrepreneur and simply talented person.
With the help of Linkedin, users can develop new business contacts, maintain a list of them, and this list of business contacts has a multi-purpose purpose. Already existing contacts, being an “intermediary” link, allow you to be introduced to other users, which directly affects the expansion of connections. There is a search for groups and companies based on the interests of the registered user. The user can also publish his resume, which, of course, may be of interest to others (employers, potential partners, etc.). Yes, you can look for a job using Linkedin, and many people do it very successfully. In a business social network, you can use the recommendation functions - recommend another user to someone else, or be “recommended” yourself.
You can post vacancies and interest groups.
According to SimilarWeb statistics, linkedin.com ranks 31st in the global ranking of Internet resources.
If you are interested in expanding your business contacts, especially in the English-speaking environment, then the business social network Linkedin can be a good tool for implementing such plans.
Myspace.com - a social network for creative individuals
It deserves attention, if only because it once held the title of the No. 1 social network in the world! But that was back in 2003-2008. The Internet giant Myspace.com was crushed by its growing competitor, the brainchild of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook. This happened in 2008, and since that time the Myspace social network has failed to even come close to the leading position in the global ranking of Internet resources. However, despite all the difficulties, the change of managers, owners and development concepts, the site myspace.com still managed not to “sink into the abyss”: modern Myspace is a resource that has returned to its ideological origins as a site for creative individuals, at the same time dressed in modern , a nice looking and well functioning shell.
However, despite this, the site is visited monthly by about 15.5 million users, which, in principle, is an impressive figure.
Pinterest.com - social network for business
This social network is very specific in terms of functioning. It can perhaps be compared with Instagram, since it also uses photographs (and animation) as “key figures”. In Pinterest terminology, each uploaded image is called a pin, and these pins are pinned to “boards”, i.e. groups that the user forms based on some considerations known to him. It looks something like this:
Pins can be shared and discussed with friends. The Pinterest platform is considered by many as an excellent platform for business – product presentation and dissemination of information about it, for example. As the inscription on the social networking site itself says, “Pinterest is a place to find interesting and useful ideas for a business or hobby.”
The popularity of Pinterest is obvious - about 100 million users are registered on this international social network.
The site is on the 39th line in the global ranking of Internet resources, and in 9th place among the world's social networks.
The site is visited more than 760 million times monthly, with the majority of visits coming from the United States.
For those who try to be in the trend of modern Internet technologies, who prefer to work with graphics rather than text, getting acquainted with the social network Pinterest.com is definitely a must. shown. Moreover, according to analysts, the social network has recently become increasingly popular in the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet.
Largest social networks: Twitter.com
In a review of social networks, it would be strange to ignore the extremely popular project called Twitter. This social network, along with Facebook and Instagram, has long become an integral attribute of the “social life” of many Internet users. The social network owes its popularity to its publication format: according to Twitter rules, posts, messages, links, etc. are left. must not exceed 140 characters. The name of the social network largely conveys its character. Translated from English, “Twit” means “twitter, tweet.” And there are more than 500 million such tweeters on this site.
Twitter was implemented in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, an American programmer and entrepreneur, and it grew out of an SMS service “for internal use” by employees of the Odeo company. The meaning of the service, conceived by Dorsey, was this: the user leaves a short message on his page, and all the “friends” subscribed to him instantly see it. The first twitter message was the line left by the creator of the social network: “Just setting up my twttr.” This was followed by a triumphant presentation of the service at the SXSW festival, during which the number of Twitter users jumped from 20,000 to 60 thousand in a day, and then on the rise.
So, the 2 “pillars” of the Twitter social network are short messages and subscribers. It is from the messages of those the user follows that his “feed” on the social network will be formed; Posts will be posted in reverse chronological order.
Twitter is most widespread on mobile devices, which is quite expected: on small screens, short and informative (though not always) messages are digested much easier than long “foot wraps” of someone’s articles, for example, on some blog.
Thanks to this social network, the technology of hashtags has received active, perhaps even excessive, development: as a rule, this is a word or phrase that succinctly characterizes the content of the entire post, preceded by the symbol “#” (octothorpe sign, if you are talking abstrusely). The “d” symbols also have specific functionality – placing it in front of the user’s nickname allows you to send a private message, and “@” is also placed in front of the user’s name and allows you to send him a reply/notification.
Currently, Twitter ranks 11th in the global ranking of world Internet resources, and 5th in the social networking segment.
Familiarization with this social network can be recommended to anyone who is interested in new events in the world, country or any particular area, who wants to receive information as quickly as possible or share it. By the way, Twitter is also very useful for business: it is an excellent tool for receiving responses, reviews and other types of operational interaction with the world.
Vk.com is the largest Russian social network
It's time to remember the largest Russian project in the field of social networking. Of course, we are talking about the well-known VKontakte.
By the way, the name of the Russian social network No. 1 could have been different - at first, going through the options, we almost settled on “Studlist.ru”. However, the founders of VKontakte realized in time that this name was “niche” in nature and was not suitable for reaching a wider audience. As a result, at the suggestion of Pavel Durov, the project received a name that is now well-known to everyone.
The social network vkontakte.ru was launched in October 2006. Already in 2007, more than 3 million users were registered on the site, and Durov said that the resource had surpassed its main Russian-language competitor, Odnoklassniki.ru, in popularity.
VKontakte has absorbed the most popular and in-demand ideas in the world of social networks, while managing to maintain a certain balance in the issue of ease of perception and interface management, unlike Facebook, whose interface is oversaturated with functionality and in which an inexperienced person will need time to figure everything out. get comfortable.
If the Reader wants to get acquainted in detail with the features of the VKontakte social network, its interface and main capabilities, we recommend reading the article:
The statistics provided by SimilarWeb definitely please the eye of the management of the social network Vkontakte: 1st place among all web resources in Russia, 2nd in the global ranking of social networks, fourth among all world sites in general!
Ok.ru is the main competitor of VKontakte
Considering Vkontakte, we remembered its closest competitor on the Runet - the Odnoklassniki social network. So the next few lines are about her.
The project started almost simultaneously with VKontakte - in 2006. If VKontakte is called a Facebook clone, then odnoklassniki.ru are identical twins of the popular American social network classmates.com. Citizen A.M. Popkov, who worked in London, had experience in developing similar projects for European countries, and realized in time that in Russia this niche was a service for searching and communicating with classmates/groupmates, etc. – is still free. And, as expected, the social network Odnoklassniki very quickly gained a lot of users and popularity on the Runet: in less than a year of existence, 1,500,000 users registered on the website odnoklassniki.ru.
In contrast to the same VKontakte, the management of Odnoklassniki quite quickly decided that they needed to make money from users: in the history of the social network there was a stage of paid registration, and a time when the user received full functionality for an additional fee, and other points that negatively affected rating of the social network, but obviously had a positive impact on the wallets of the site owners. However, over time, obviously unsuccessful decisions were corrected, so the ok.ru website is still one of the most popular and visited Internet resources.
In global terms, this translates to 1.3 billion monthly visits. And, apparently, there are no prerequisites for a decrease in popularity and the number of visits yet.
Chinese social network Renren.com
Yes, it's a Chinese social network. And it ONLY works in Chinese. That does not prevent it from being the largest in terms of the number of registered users: Wikipedia shows a figure of 160 million. Yes, it’s not surprising - why come up with translations into other languages if your potential users are 20% of the entire earth’s population?!
Initially, the social network was called xiaonei.com, and was, in fact, a copy of Facebook in Chinese. It gained life in 2005, and already in 2008 it gained the title of “China's largest online university community.” In August 2009, a “renaming” took place, after which the modern name Renren.com appeared
However, in terms of the number of visits, it is still among the “millionaires” with its 22 million monthly visits.
At the same time, you can understand where the Chinese brothers who do not live in China have mostly settled in the world :)
The social network renren.com can be recommended, firstly, to those who understand Chinese, and secondly, to those who want to establish contacts and start communicating with Chinese youth (the majority of users are Chinese university students).
This review of social networks can be considered complete. Yes, several million-dollar resources, which many also call social networks (for example, Livejournal and Youtube), were left behind. This was done for the following reason: such sites, if they belong to social networks, are only indirect; their main tasks are other areas: blogging, video hosting, etc. This means they deserve a place in a separate thematic selection.
The number of social media users is growing exponentially. Some services are more popular, others less popular. However, everything is changing, and it is quite possible that while you are studying this rating, some previously unknown social network will take the lead.
Facebook with the number of accounts exceeding 1.2 billion. The network, founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, has held first place in the world TOPs since its inception.
Google+, the number of users of which is approaching the 600 million mark. The social network, founded in 2001 by Google, moves up and down the rankings, however, it is invariably among the ten most successful projects. 
Twitter with half a billion users. The presence of a mini-blog on this social network has become a real trend, because the most influential people on the planet have accounts on Twitter.
Sina Weibo, the number of accounts exceeds 500 million. This is perhaps the only social network from our rating that does not have a Russian-language interface. However, it doesn’t need this, since it is designed for friendly residents of the Middle Kingdom who want to communicate exclusively with each other and have been doing this successfully since 2009. 
In contact with is a social network created in Russia in 2006 and is one of the most successful domestic projects to date. The number of VKontakte users is rapidly approaching 300 million, which means that the social network is used not only in our country.
Badoo with an audience of almost 230 million, it is an international dating site with a full set of social network functions. 
Tumblr– a social network for those who like to blog, as well as read and comment on the blogs of other users. Created in 2007, this social network today has about 220 million users. 
Classmates- another well-known Russian project that has become a world leader. Since 2006, the number of Odnoklassniki users has increased from 0 to 210 million people.
Instagram is a social network that came out into the world in 2010 and quickly moved to the top of the rankings thanks to the ability to share photos and videos with many users. 
Pinterest is a social network whose 200 million users can share a wide variety of ideas with each other, from innovative business solutions to holiday pie recipes. 
Flickr. Almost 70 million users of this social network exchange a huge number of photos every day. 
MySpace, created in 2003, it has about 50 million accounts and is a social network in its classic form. Exchange of messages, opinions, photos and videos, dating, blog platform, in a word, everything that is required for a pleasant pastime. 
MeetUp is a social network whose purpose is to unite people in groups for real communication. More than 40 million users have found friends with similar interests here and have a great time with them without the Internet. 
Tagged. Almost 40 million users of this social network can meet and communicate with each other.
Askfm– a place where you can get an answer to any question, because from more than 38 million answers you can definitely choose the right one. 
ClassMates- the English-language prototype of the Russian Odnoklassniki, created back in 1995, but did not achieve equally impressive results. The project's audience is about 15 million people. 
Orkut- another project from Google that did not become a hit in the USA and Europe, but is very popular among residents of Latin America, India and a number of other countries. The project is currently closed and is being relocated to the Hello social network platform.
