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A social networking service is a platform to build social networks or social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections. A social network service consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network services are web-based and provide means for users to interact over the Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. Online community services are sometimes considered as a social network service, though in a broader sense, social network service usually means an individual-cantered service whereas online community services are group-cantered. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, pictures, posts, activities, events, and interests with people in their network

Netlog (formerly known as Facebox and Bingbox) is a Belgian social networking website specifically targeted at the Global youth demographic..The site was founded in July 2003 in Ghent, Belgium, by Lorenz Bogaert and Toon Coppens, and by 2007 had attracted 28 million members the site now claims to have over 94 million registered users across 40 languages and now in all languages. On Net log, members can create their own web page, extend their social network, and publish their music playlists, share videos and post blogs

Bebo is a social networking website launched in 2005. It is owned and operated by Criterion Capital Partners who took over from AOL in June 2010.Users receive a personal profile page where they can post blogs, photographs, music, videos and questionnaires which other users may answer. Additionally, users may add others as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Bebo is very similar to other social networking sites; mainly Facebook.Bebo was founded by Michael Birch and his wife Xochi Birch in January 2005

It is a social networking site based in San Francisco, California. The company was founded in 2003 by Ramu Yalamanchi By 2008; comScore reported that Hi5 had become the third most popular social networking site in terms of monthly unique visitors. Bill Gossman was appointed CEO in April 2009, and since that time, Hi5 has refocused itself as a social gaming platform and opened itself to new game developers

It is a social gaming site that is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was previously known as a social networking website. Before the site was redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain

It is a social networking website that is owned and operated by Google. The service is designed to help users meet new and old friends and maintain existing relationships. The website is named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. Although Orkut is less popular in the United States than competitors Facebook and MySpace, it is one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil. As of October 2011, 59.1% of Orkut’s users are from Brazil, followed by India with 27.1% and Japan with 6.7%

As of January 2013, LinkedIn reports more than 200 million acquired users in more than 200 countries and territories. The site is available in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Czech, Polish, Korean, Indonesian and Malay. Quant cast reports LinkedIn has 21.4 million monthly unique U.S. visitors and 47.6 million globally.[In June 2011, LinkedIn had 33.9 million unique visitors, up 63 percent from a year earlier and surpassing MySpace] LinkedIn filed for an initial public offering n January 2011

(previously stylized as MySpace and My_____) is a social networking service with a strong music emphasis owned by Specific Media LLC and pop music singer and actor Justin Timberlake MySpace was launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, CaliforniaIn June 2012, MySpace had 25 million unique U.S. Visitors. It was founded in 2003 and was acquired by News Corporation in July 2005 for $580 millions.

(Pronounced and sometimes written as Google Plus, sometimes abbreviated as G+ or GPlus) is a multilingual social networking and identity service owned and operated by Google It was launched on June 28, 2011. As of December 2012, it has a total of 500 million registered users of whom 235 million are active in a given month. It is currently the second largest social networking site in the world, passing Twitter in Jan, 2013

It is an online social networking service and micro blogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140characters, known as “tweets”. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and by July, the social networking site was launched. Twitter is also increasingly used for making TV more interactive and social.

It is a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook, As of September 2012, Face book has over one billion active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile add other users as friends and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students