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Which Social Networking Sites Do You Use & Enjoy The Most?

Posted by PureBlogic • 3/19/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: Marketing, Networking, promotion, social networking, social networks

If you are like me, you have joined a number of social networking sites. I was working on an article for my blog and I started thinking about how much time I spend networking online. I track my results using Google Analytics and I can clearly see where someone came from when they visit my site. That made me ask myself a question that I want to ask you.

What social networks do you find to be the most useful for you and which ones do you use the most? BlogCatalog? MyBlogLog? Friendster? FaceBook? MySpace? Whatever?

Also, what social network do you ENJOY the most?

User Comments

3/19/08

suburbqueen

I have joined several networking sites in the past year, but BC is the only one that stuck. It is too easy to get sucked in here and never want to leave.

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3/19/08

bloggingmix

I join a few social networking sites. It's rather hard to keep up with your networks if you join more than 10. BC is definitely at the top on my list. I also use MyBlogLog and Friendster.

Here's a list of social networking / bookmarking sites you might be interested to join. It's so far the largest list online. www.bloggingmix.com/2007/12/10/promote-your-blog-for-free-through-social-bo...

Happy blogging.

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1. 3/19/08
  
  PureBlogic
  
  bloggingmix you have a nice list, but, it isn't the biggest on the web. I have a list as well that I put together in December and added to my blog after a redesign in January. When I was doing the research for it, I found two lists that were more substantial than anything I had ever seen. One was a list of 501 bookmarking sites and included the ones I have plus many foreign language sites and the other was 350 sites in length. I only added sites to my list that I actually checked to make sure that they were working and viable. I got tired at about 120. Thats why I stopped at 122. :-)
  
  www.pureblogic.com/122-Book-Marking-Sites-To-Help-You-Get-Link-Love-Traffic...
3/19/08

ekim941

I use Myspace the most but lately I have developed an addiction to blog catalog. I have facebook and probably some other ones that I don't remember.

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3/19/08

ChampDog

I have those social network site but none of them link to my blogs at this moment.

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3/19/08

kaybday

Besides BC, I like Facebook and LinkedIn. I get some referrals from all of these. I'm in other networks, but there's only so much time in the day. This is the one where I'm most active, tho. best, Kay

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1. 3/19/08
  
  PureBlogic
  
  kaybday I like Facebook & LinkedIn too. They are great to use. They aren't as much fun to me as BC. I like the open quality to this community. It almost feels like we are all family. Does that sound crazy?
3/19/08

PureBlogic

suburbqueen I know what you mean (I made a little rhyme!). I am an absolute blog catalog addict. Stumble has really got my mind going too. Sometimes its so hard to stop stumbling.

bloggingmix - LOL - I have one of those list style posts too. The problem is that there doesn't seem to be enough time in the day to be active on all of them.

ekim941 - I like MySpace. I see you are getting to be like me. You've joined more than you can remember. I actually have a spreadsheet I use to keep track.

champdog - It can be time consuming to put all of them together in one place.

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3/19/08

kellybax

I only do two now. Blogcatalog and Flugpo.

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4/02/08

PureBlogic

kellybax thanks for that one! I never heard of flugpo! It's an interesting social classifieds site. It's like a sophisticated craigslist.

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4/02/08

jjwright85

I use blogcatalog, twitter, facebook, stumbleupon, digg, and a few others. It kind of gets overwhelming so I sometimes have to give myself certain days for certain networks. It has been working so far

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1. 4/03/08
  
  PureBlogic
  
  I know! Doesn't it seem like there is always one more to join? I too have times and days set aside for online networking. It just takes so much time.
4/03/08

Norski

BlogCatalog - That's about it now. I've tried MySpace, LiveJournal (my #2 community, by several lengths), and Daz 3D's ArtZone (good, but full of artists - of course) and some others.

It's not the technology here, so much as the people. It's possible to get a discussion thread started, with comments and replies coming on a scale of minutes and hours, rather than weeks and months.

What can I say? I like it here.

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4/04/08

jackpayne

I've tried MySpace, but the only people who want to be my friends are prostitutes. Think I can do better elsewhere, but don't know exactly where.

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1. 4/04/08
  
  PureBlogic
  
  jackpayne that is so funny! You know what? Does it ever make you wonder why there are always people trying to contact you about sex on Myspace? I wonder that every time I get a friend request from someone like that. It does tarnish the site a bit.
4/08/08

earthlingorgeous

I use Friendster for my Filipino friends,
Facebook for my Canadian friends,
Yahoo 360 for my yahoo chat friends then
Multiply a mix of the friendster and yahoo 360 friends and that's where I cross blog, meaning all my post from all my blogs shows up in there
and BC now for my blogging friends

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1. 4/08/08
  
  PureBlogic
  
  Hey....what about your US friends??????Don't we count for something??? LOL!! So that's Friendster, Facebook, Yahoo 360 & BC - that's a goood mix.
2. 4/08/08
  
  earthlingorgeous
  
  hahahah pureblogic...US friends are in my Yahoo360 and here in Blog Catalog
4/08/08

andysplace

I really liked profileheaven.com/andysplace but i never go on there now but great site for meeting frendly people.

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1. 4/08/08
  
  PureBlogic
  
  andysplace!!!! You have me visiting a dating site!?!?!?!? I never heard of profileheaven, but I went there from that link and it seems like a nice place to try and find a date - LOL.
4/08/08

andysplace

It's a good site not just for dating lots of friendly people on there

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1. 4/08/08
  
  PureBlogic
  
  OK...I...ummm.....believe...you....:-)
4/08/08

LoveCollective

I use Wanksta, and Battlestar Galicktica as my new homes from home for social networking.

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1. 4/08/08
  
  PureBlogic
  
  Ha! OK! Porn! Well good luck with that....
4/08/08

daniel23

I use facebook is link up with my union, and BC otherwise.

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1. 4/08/08
  
  PureBlogic
  
  Keeping it simple. I like that.
4/08/08

ttiger

Digg, Mixx, facebook, BC and myspace

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1. 4/08/08
  
  PureBlogic
  
  I use those too. However, I just started using Mixx. I came across it by accident actually. It's a pretty good site.
4/08/08

4Freedoms

I use myspace , facebook and youtube. Also for bookmarking is Digg and stumbleupon.:D

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1. 4/09/08
  
  PureBlogic
  
  Hmmm. I love YouTube too. Digg is great, but StumbleUpon is awesome!
4/09/08

wandadog13

have you tried Go Smell The Flowers? a blooming social site with 20 founders and an ever growing number of regular contributors as our garde grows.... some interesting topics and posts.

Verdict: Very addictive, great bunch of people, don't be put off by the title!

link: www.gosmelltheflowers.com

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1. 4/09/08
  
  PureBlogic
  
  Oh I love it! The only thing that sucks is that we can't join yet. I want to say something positive! I want to say something positive! I want to say something positive! This site is so sunny. That father thing made me a little teary-eyed. Thank you for telling me to go smell the flowers!
4/09/08

legbamel

Hrm, not one MyBlogLog mention. And yet, I know that there are people who swear that it's a great site for social networking. I wonder if you could profile people's personalities by whether they prefer BC or MBL.

I'll have to check out the flowers. I thought it was a multi-author blog, not a social networking site. I'm curious, now!

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1. 4/09/08
  
  PureBlogic
  
  Ha! Ha! You know what legbamel? After I started really getting into Blog Catalog I stopped visiting MyBlogLog as often. MyBlogLog changed their layout and I absolutely HATE it!!!!!! I think it is sooooo horrible looking. It was nice the way it was. I hate the layout so much that I don't like going there as much anymore. That flowers thing is a multi-author site, however, they say that the ability to join and all that social networking stuff is coming.
8/17/08

HelloAnnie

I discovered a new social site called next2friends, logo is on my website. Please visit cus it is very different.

It is quite interactive, new and allows more room for connecting with other members. It is not a Bloggers networking site per se. I upload all my videos there and link my articles to videos from here.

The good thing about this site is I can use my mobile phone to capture videos for streaming live images.

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8/17/08

xmarks

I enjoy bc

I use digg, stumble, entracard. I've gotten reasonable traffic from entrecard but very little out of digg and stumble

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8/17/08

RecycleCindy

I only use StumbleUpon as far as a bookmarking site. I also visit and use BlogCatalog daily.

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8/17/08

Arcticulates

I think Blog Catalog is one of the top best out there.

Another one I use and usually can generate lots of traffic at is Link Referral

www.linkreferral.com/adwel.pl?oldrefid=177505

It requires some time and energy on your part, but it is worth the trouble. I seem to do quite well there.

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8/17/08

indianhits

i am not interested in any social networking sites but if my friends want to chat with me or viceversa we use orkut.com

www.ifashionhits.blogspot.com
www.mobilezgames.blogspot.com

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8/17/08

kat822

ok dumb ass this is a social networking site.......dugh
yeah just go ahead and report my ass It will be worth it

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1. 8/17/08
  
  wigwam2theorem
  
  Kat, I love the way you respond to these types of statements.