Top 10 Social Media Sites
It is hard to keep track of the trends in social media. Where do people socialize online today? Some empires crumble (like MySpace). Others grow to prominence seemingly out of nowhere.
Thus I decided to provide a list of the most important sites based on sheer size. Of course I don’t have the means to know their sizes. Thus I used third party data from someone in the know.
Here’s a list of the 10 largest social media sites.
As most people just want to find out the most influential or popular social media sites based on the number of members and active usage I took the data from the Global Web Index survey:
- Facebook – Sharing with friends and family
- Youtube – Video sharing, commenting
- Twitter – Short message and link sharing
- Google+ – Sharing with strangers
- Instagram – Image community
- LinkedIn – Networking for business people
- Pinterest – Image sharing/bookmarking
- Tumblr – Media sharing and microblogging
- Badoo – Chatting, flirting
- MySpace – Social networking, music
Remember though that you can’t possibly participate at numerous of social media sites at the same time.
Choose not more than 3 to 5 and focus on these. Indeed most people do it that way. According to GWI the average social media user is actively participating on “2.75” sites.
Personally I focus on
currently.
This list does not include popular apps like WhatsApp or SnapChat because they are only available on mobile and track you to sell your data to advertisers.
A good alternative is the secure messenger service Wickr. It’s available for all platforms. Unless of course you have nothing to hide. Then you go walk around naked.
Last updated: July 11th, 2017.
Tad,
You left out my list here.. or was it not good enough?
http://www.doshdosh.com/list-of-social-media-news-websites/
Some of the lists you have above feature sites that are dead/inactive. It’s not about having a comprehensive or big list but rather the sites that matter or are useful IMO..
Tad,
Thanks for the mention. I completely agree with your advice about picking 3 – 5 to concentrate on. In my opinion it is ideal if you can have a few niche social media sites in there in addition to a couple major ones.
Maki, shame on me! It was my fault. Wrote it at night and basically fell asleep breaking my blog while at it…
Which ones are inactive?
Steven, now that I think of it: You too have another list of that type already don’t you?
I guess it’s ok that you missed our list, since it only came out last night:
http://promote-my-site.com/index.php/140-114-Social-Media-Sites-Where-You-Can-Use-Automation.html
Oh the irony of another list of lists. Thanks for putting it together. Bookmarked!
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Thanks for the list Tad!
I think Maki’s list is the best one as it contains only active sites.
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Thank you for the posting. I have to admit, I must not be all that social. I have not heard of most of these. Keep up the good work.
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A list of lists? Alright, I am gonna bookmark the bookmarks :)