Social Networking Sites

Social Networking Sites

Social Networking sites are basically community sites that you join and then search for people within the community with similar interests as you. Now, some social networking sites are very small and focused, so by definition the people who join such sites are already members of a tightly focused interest group.

Such a group might be brought together by their political or religious beliefs, or it could be something such as their hobbies (they love Ford Mustangs or making cheesecake) sports or basically anything else that mankind has found it possible to be interested in!

So, in such a tightly focused group, almost all members without exception will be interested in the one common thing.

However, there are many other community sites where the only real common interest that most of the members could possibly ever have with one another is that they are all, in fact, members of the same site!

This is simply a function of the size and therefore the diversity of the sites in question, with websites like MySpace and FaceBook having literally millions of members all over the globe. (107 and 73 million members respectively)
Such sites generally have a totally open membership, meaning that anyone can become a member, no matter what their hobbies, beliefs, or views are.

Thus, there is no general community wide commonality of beliefs or interests either.

It is therefore only natural that once you are a member, inside this online community, you can begin to create your own network of friends, those that do have similar interest and/or beliefs to those of your own.

And, just in case MySpace and FaceBook, with a combined membership of 200 million members are not enough to keep you busy, here and here are lists of many more such sites!