At right is a screen shot of the Wikipedia page List of social networking websites.

Said honestly I had absolutely no idea there were this many. Yeah, I knew there were quite a few but not so much that you had to press "Page Down" five times to read thru it…

…when reading the web page on a 1680×1050 monitor…

…with the browser maximized.

Sure, you’ve heard of MySpace and Facebook – who hasn’t?

But how about lifeknot?

Or Ryze?

Or wis.dm?

Never heard of any of these? Neither did I until I looked at the list.

And yes, it’s sad the only way I was made aware of these other sites is by examining a generic list of social networking sites.

What’s even crazier is that the list isn’t even complete and never will be as their are other "networks" starting up all the time.

Social networking has reached the point where I call it a "wash". The sites who were first in the game will always be the most popular and most used and anyone else who joins in will never achieve that level of success – and that’s just the way it is.

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Some related reading: Although this article is a bit old now, I suggest reading The world map of social networks.

It is very interesting how some of these networks turned out to be very country-specific and more or less stayed that way.

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