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The Leaders in Social Networks
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| Mark Zuckerberg |
Facebook is the largest of the social networks by far exceeding 500 million members worldwide.
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| Tom Anderson |
MySpace is the second largest social networks predating Facebook by several years. It has been bought by the News Corporation.
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| Sampo Karjalainen |
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to others. There are discussion forums where members can verify their email addresses. Users can enter the hotel lobby where they can use a chat feature to speak to others.
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| Michael Birch |
Bebo is currently owned by Criterion Capital Partners. Bebo stands for Blog Early, Blog Often. Users can post photographs, music, videos as well as blogs.
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| Ganesh Kumar |
90% of the people in Friendster come from Asia. Friendster has approximately 115 million members. The company was founded by two computers programmers, Jonathan Abrams, Peter Chin and David Lee in 2002.
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| Ma Huateng |
By virtue of the fact that this social network is the largest in China, it is large by world standards with about 150 million members and growing. Users are permitted to write blogs, keep diaries, send photos and listen to music.
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| Schleir-Smith & Tseng |
Tagged was founded in 2004 to be like a "teen yahoo of the next "MTV." Users can customize their page as well as upload photos and albums, receive and send messages and send virtual "winks."
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| Dharmesh Mehta (right) |
This service is run by Microsoft. It was announced in September of 2010 that this service will be disbanded and be hosted by WordPress.
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| Pavel Durov |
This is the largest social network in Russia with over 102 million members. It has been seen as a clone of Facebook. Most of the members are high school and university students. It is growing with varied age groups.
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| Reid Hoffman |
LinkedIn was founded in 2002 as a business-oriented social networking site. As of November 2010 it had more than 80 million members covering over 200 countries.
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| Ramu Yalamanchi |
Founded in 2003, with numbers approaching 46.1 million monthly visitors Hi5 is open for visitors to send and receive messages, upload pictures and play online games among other things.
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| Joe Greenstein |
Flixster is a site
where people can share their opinion on movies. It receives 20 million visitors per day.
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| Mark Goldston |
Classmates - Mark Goldston
Randy Conrads founded Classmates in 1995. The site was originally founded with the purpose of assisting in the finding of classmates from kindergarten, primary school, high school, college and the United States Military. It has approximately 50 million members.
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| Yang Bo |
This site was founded in 2005. Users are able to review movies, books and music. As of September of 2010 it had 10 million members. It has been heavily censored by the Chinese government.
Badoo - Alexey Andreev (unable to find image)
This site is the most popular in France, Spain, Italy and Latin America. As of November of 2010 is claims 80 million members.
