social networking

Take a look at the interesting infographics, containing demographic statistics behind the most popular social networking sites in the world.

By combining profiles, chat, messaging, photo albums and blogging, Social networking sites (SNS) integrate online activities more seamlessly than ever. Social networks are used for myriad purposes and by a wide range of users. Different sites have different profile formats which allow users to share different information about themselves. This offers children many opportunities, but possibly also more risks.

From the time that Facebook has become popular, everyone wanted to have something similar for themselves. Everyone wanted to catch a comparable number of users and keep them within their website. Of course, social networking, as we know, really took off with Friendster.com, launched in 2002.