Social Networking Apps

Twitter lets you send short messages to a group of friends. It is more immediate and intimate than blogging.

Classmates.com enable users to locate and interact with acquaintances from high school and college.

Facebook.com is one of the most popular social networks that connects people with friends, old classmates, colleagues and others.

MySpace gives internet users a place to network and enjoy music. The site presents music-related news and photos along with all the basic social networking tools a user could need.

Hoop.la allows its users to build and customize fantastic looking web communities without any downloads or programming.

Google Plus gives users another social network to join.

Groupsite.com combines features of traditional websites, blogs, collaboration software and social networks.

Orkut is a social networking service owned by Google.

Patch is your local source for news, events, business listings, and discussion.

Ruck.us provides users with a chance to meet others who share their political beliefs. The site matches users up with similarly minded individuals as well as causes, candidates and petitions.

Heello.com is a platform where users can share short updates with an optional photo or video.

Netlog is a social network focused on young people in Europe. The application lets users build profiles, add images and videos, update blogs and get to know others with similar interests.

Zwiggo gives users a place to share content and interact with a group online. Public and private groups give the user more options as they add photos, chat and other apps.

PeopleJar is a search platform for individuals and organizations to be found and find others by specific attributes for any interest.

Allows users to send messages, leave comments, browse photos, watch videos, play games, give tags and chat.