subject: Benefits Of Top Social Networking Sites [print this page] There are some websites that may immediately come to mind when you hear the term Social networking. Although there are hundreds of social media, social bookmarking and social networking websites out there, the top social networking sites dominate a much larger part of the internet than all the others combined. Here is a short look at some of the top social networking sites and what they offer to those who use them.
The first website that someone thinks of when the term "social networking" is brought up is MySpace, available at http://www.myspace.com. MySpace is one of the first forms of social networking websites, and it has many people using it, making it one of the top social networking sites. MySpace join users who share interest in music, books, television shows, videos, pictures and profiles. Users can keep a list of friends, a gallery of images, a personal profile, and comments and other forms of communication so as to network, and to get connected with people all over the world. Though MySpace is looked upon as a networking site for young people, more than one internet business has come from this heavily trafficked web site. It is one of those places where it's imperative to stay within the terms of service of the site. However, you can take advantage of the marketing opportunities presented by MySpace.
Twitter (http://www.twitter.com) is another social networking site, it is a famous social networking medium that is conjured when social networking is mentioned, and it brings about a completely unique form of networking called micro-blogging. Micro-blogging includes putting updates in micro-format. Subscribers to your Twitter feed can keep up with your micro blogging updates the whole day much in the same way that they would with an RSS feed or a standard blog. Only the micro format makes writing in a Twitter account much easier than any other form of blogging and social networking. Twitter allows mobile updating, so you can update your followers on your status from anywhere, no matter where you are.
Just like MySpace and the other networking social sites you will find that Twitter can be an internet marketer's dream also. It takes a little thinking to take advantage of every marketing chance presented there. The great thing about it is that the people who follow you and those you follow are much targeted potential customers for you.
In addition to Twitter and MySpace as the top social networking sites there are other three sites to use for your internet marketing and These includes Facebook, liverjournal and Flickr. Facebook (http://www.facebook.com) just like MySpace is a large scale social networking site that is known for providing many different avenues for communication and community facilitation. Facebook provides a lot of unique applications and games that make networking even more fun among friends, business associates, colleagues and family members, making Facebook one of the top social networking sites online today.
Live journal (http://www.livejournal.com), is a blogging platform social networking site, which means that the community and communication facilitated is all based around
