Showcase of Social Networking Websites
Published October 5th, 2009 in GalleriesSocial networking and social media sites have been popping up everywhere over the past few years. The design of a networking site is important for a few reasons. First, it needs to appeal to the those users who are in the target audience of the site so that they can relate to it and feel at home. Second, usability is very important for these sites because their success hinges on the ability to get first-time visitors to become regular users and repeat visitors. If a site is poorly designed and makes it difficult to interact, chances are the visitors will not continue to use the site.
In this post we’ll feature a number of well-designed social networking sites.
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33 Responses to “Showcase of Social Networking Websites”
This is a good list of social networking sites.
You could also add TeemingPod (www.teemingpod.com) to this list.
Great collections
… wanna add http://lovelogger.com , an social weblogging platform only for PAIR’s too to the list.
Websites are splendid and modern.
Nice list! Hadn’t seen most of them.
Bookmarked some for future design ideas
Thanks!
No offense, but petZume doesn’t look to great. Did you check http://www.websparky.com ?
What do you reckon to http://www.worldeka.com? A bit different…
just what i was looking thanks
you should of mentioned socialgo.com i hear they are coming up pretty fast
Nice list. Didn’t know about most of them.
I’d like to know what you think about http://o-mama.org
I love how you present some of the nicest sites all in one place.
Thanks
Thanks for this collection … some interesting designs there … less homogeneous than I expected.
There’s a useful article over at:
“Smashing Magazine with interesting commentary.
Wow, such a great list – a few I didn’t know! designbump would be my pick for design related links. A good sports social network is BallHype.
I have been looking for information about the networking and social media sites.
You write very well in your post.
Thanks!
Wow great list of social networking site. Thanks for sharing this nice collection.
Hello
Thanks to all for sharing the views. I found social networking sites are very useful to get the updated news..It plays a very important role in education as well.
Thanks
i wish i could own one of those sites
Pligg allows you to setup niche social bookmarking sites using their engine. Wonderful if there are profits to be made…
I think you’ve missed out Facebook in this list.
Btw, so many social networking sites, I’m I’m thinking about my own social networking site. Anyone interested in our project.
Nice list!!! Thank you
Wonderful post with the useful media sites.Thanks
Great work guys. Both by you and the creator. great going vandelay design.
most of listed a saw first time, thanks for this latest link share.
A nice list, but a minor oversight… where’s Facebook?
Hi Nick,
It’s not really an oversight. I didn’t include Facebook on the list because I don’t think its design is anything special. The sites featured in the post were chosen based on design, not popularity of the site.
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