by Kim Newport
Social networking is rapidly revolutionizing how people interact not only with their friends and family but with businesses and online money making opportunities. With the top social networking sites you’ll be able to find new friends, catch up with old friends, communicate with family members and even find new customers for your business.
You can develop relationships with people, and introduce them to whatever you’re offering. If you haven’t looked into the social networking scene yet, then it’s time to do so. If you don’t know where to start with social networking, you’ve come to the right place. These are the ten top social networking websites, and what they have to offer to you.
1. MySpace – The largest social networking site around, and one of the most important if you want to meet potential customers and associates. Millions of people have profiles on Myspace; you could be one of them!
2. Facebook: Facebook is similar to MySpace and is another great social networking tool. It offers many unique features that MySpace does not, making it worthwhile to belong to both websites.
3. YouTube: YouTube is best known for videos, but it is also a social networking website that allows you to maintain your own channel of uploaded videos that you can then share with others. You can not only build relationships here but it can be used for viral marketing.
4. Linkedin: This is a social networking website more geared toward forging communications between professionals in similar industries. This is a great tool for finding new people with similar business interests to you.
5. Twitter: Twitter is what is known as “micro-blogging”, it allows people to post short tidbits of information instantly and is a great way for people to share what they are currently doing.
6. Classmates: This social networking site connects you with old friends from your past, so you can keep in touch with people you went to school with and rekindle old friendships.
7. Xanga: This is a community of bloggers that lets you share blogs, videos, photos and more, allowing you to network with people around the world who have similar interests.
8. Squidoo: This site is fast becoming very popular, and it lets people create personal webpages, known as lenses, about anything they like.
9. MSN Groups: A division of MSN. this social network facilitates online community and allows you to find and communicate with a wide variety of different people.
10. AOL Hometown: This site shares many facets with MSN Groups but is owned by AOL. It allows you to use AOL’s prodigious resources to meet with people all over the world and get your business model some screen time.
There are countless social networking websites out there these days. If you understand the features and terms of service of the above sites and other available social networking websites, you’ll be able to quickly make a name for yourself. Not only from an online social standpoint but as a tool for internet business marketing. Utilizing these social networking sites can give your online business quite a boost.