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Now almost everyone has a page in some social network. They are especially popular among the younger generation, however, older people do not stay away from all the benefits that the World Wide Web provides, and become active users of various sites. That is why the rating of social networks in 2019 will be useful to many.

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Facebook

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Interface of blue color Considered soothing, it has remained virtually unchanged since its inception.

Zuckerberg is colorblind. And blue is the only color he sees without distortion.

And although it is sometimes difficult for new users to figure it out, those who have been using sites for a long time are used to it. That is why it cannot be said that the site interface is completely convenient.

In contact with

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Many people think that the interface of the site repeats the interface of Facebook, but it is worth noting that VKontakte is much more convenient to use.

And even despite a number of changes, additions, innovations that partially echo the global network, however, VK remains unique and interesting for young people.

It is worth noting that in 2017 the developers added a number of interesting additions that appealed to all users of the social network.

And although the number of registered users is decreasing, this does not mean that the site is losing its popularity. He just supports his significant audience with new "chips".

It is worth noting that the following functions are on top here:

• music;
• video;
• posts;
• location of message boxes;
• a photo;
• news feed.

Twitter

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Odnoklassniki

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As you know, this corporation is famous for significant projects and quality products.

And although this network is focused specifically on video, however, this does not reduce its popularity.

Google bought YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion.

A lot of users at the present time have their own channel.

Video bloggers literally flooded. It is they who collect a significant audience on the site, so the social network offers various gifts to those who gain a certain number of subscribers.

And although communication is going on here, mostly in the form of comments, however, users are already used to it and this does not bother them at all.

If someone wants to chat privately, they go to any other social network.

My world

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And although it is far from the above sites, however, the use of its audience of over 16 million allows it to be included in the rating of social networks in 2017.

Moi Mir and Odnoklassniki belong to Mail.ru. He also owns a large stake in VKontakte.

It should be noted that to a large extent this network is focused on the fact that users can not only communicate, but also look for like-minded people in various online games.

Since the industry of such games is developing more and more, we can say that such features are a significant plus for many users.

baby blog

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You can blog or find answers to your questions. Moms also tell interesting stories.

Interestingly, the site cooperates with a number of different companies and holds various competitions. The prizes in them are various nice gifts for the baby or mother.

Among other things, you can select your city and search for information only on it. It is possible to buy and sell through the site using the "flea market".

This is the most visited portal for pregnant women and mothers in Russia.

The same applies to various places that you can visit with children.

In general - an extremely convenient site for people with children, which offers a lot of opportunities and information.

Google Plus

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At the present time, when games on devices have become so popular, such a function is indispensable.

Initially, Google Plus could only be accessed by invitation of an already registered user. And in less than two weeks, it gained a million subscribers.

However, it should be noted that, despite a large number of registered users, use it not so often.

Rather, as storage and identification for various applications.

whatsapp

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This is not just a gadget-oriented messenger, but also a social network. Here you can create interest groups and exchange opinions. Why not a social network?

This application involves the instant transfer of messages and files. This is justified by the fact that it involves the mandatory attachment of it to a mobile phone number.

Highly user-friendly interface and green coloring are liked by many users.

It is possible to create a group chat, which allows you to exchange files and messages with a large group of people.

And although this is not a specific site, but an application that needs to be downloaded, however it can be found on most modern devices.

A convenient messenger is what many users need now. Besides WhatsApp allows you to exchange free messages with people from all over the world.

Viber

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The application is similar to the previous one.

Very convenient for those who spend a lot of time on the Internet.

The site allows you to find exactly what everyone needs. Indeed, in addition to global social networks, it also focuses on thematic ones.

myspace

The site has recently become increasingly popular among the younger generation.

Very interesting and unusual interface attracts attention.

And the search for videos, music and people is much easier.

In 2008, a beta version of MySpace in Russian was launched. But a year and a half later, the leadership of the social network announced the closure of the Russian division.

You can not only communicate with people, but also view various tops and world news (mainly show business news).

In general, everything that is so interesting to the younger generation, to which the site is oriented.

LinkedIn

This network provides many opportunities (especially in the field of IT technologies). Thus it is possible:

• find potential candidates for a particular position by creating vacancies;
• post a resume and look for a job;
• publish and send recommendations;
• keep a blog;
• participate in various surveys;
• find answers to questions that are related to professional topics;
• publish information about various events (for example, conferences);
• post information about various companies and the services they provide.

From the above, you can understand that this is a narrowly focused network, which, however, has many extremely useful functions, which is why it is so popular in the professional field.

In 2016, Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $26.2 billion.

Professionals

Via website you can search for business partners and like-minded people, as well as banking and marketers.

It took about two million dollars to create and promote the site.

Initially, Professionals.ru was conceived as a way to communicate within one organization. But over time, it was decided to expand the possibilities.

Professionali.ru is a kind of business community where you can create contacts by industry and location.

LiveJournal

Many people who like to share their thoughts prefer to open an account in LiveJournal.

For new users, the interface may seem a little awkward, but over time, it becomes clear that the site is quite easy to use.

It is also convenient in that in a certain feed all posted records of friends added by the user are shown. That is, you can choose what you want to read.

You can only add 2000 friends to LiveJournal. You can increase this number only by contacting the administration of the social network.

However, it is worth noting that users can get all the features of the Journal by paying for a premium account.

The rest will have to be content with limited opportunities.

This is a significant disadvantage of the site, however, most people prefer LiveJournal as a blogging site.

Spaces

After filling out the questionnaire, you can choose a person who matches the interests. A very convenient search, because the system automatically finds people who are in the same city.

An interesting and non-standard interface attracts attention. A purple color with bright splashes makes the site bright and memorable.

In addition, the system allows you to create a kind of journal, which, if desired, can be hidden from strangers.

However, the disadvantage of the site is that almost any user action is accompanied by a message from the System. This causes certain inconveniences.

Alter Geo

Continuing the topic of social networks that I raised the other day (by the way, if you haven’t read the post about Russian social networks), I offer you a translation of the article “33 places to hang out in the era of social networks”, published on the rev2.org blog. The article is an impressive list of foreign social networks and gives a good idea of ​​this booming market. Over the past two years, the popularity of social networks has increased markedly. Everyone can find a network to their liking, there are networks for dogs, parents, book lovers and shopaholics. In social networks, in my opinion, it is very useful and interesting to spend time. It is because of the growing interest in social networks that I created this list. I think that it will come in handy for those who, despite existing profiles in MySpace or Bebo, are ready to look for something new and interesting.

Please note - I did not include in the list services focused on social bookmarking, as well as systems "with a hint" of social networks (YouTube or Flickr). I also divided the list into two categories - general and special. The list covers only those services that are available to a wide range of users (no private beta by invitation).

MySpace is the largest social network in the world. She conquered the United States with great speed, now MySpace has about 80 million users. In 2005, it was bought by Newscorp for $580 million. MySpace continues to develop rapidly and at the moment it is she who determines the development of social networks.

Bebo - Unlike the Americanized MySpace, Bebo is designed for other English-speaking countries such as England, Australia and New Zealand. Functionally, Bebo is very similar to MySpace. Initially, Bebo was created in order to communicate between friends, but later the network has grown and currently has about 40 million users.
Recommended for: teenagers, young adults

Tagworld was founded in autumn 2005. Direct competitor to MySpace. It stands out for its excellent implementation of Web 2.0 (tagging, AJAX). Tagworld also has a search engine for music and an IM client with video chat capabilities.
Recommended for: teenagers, young adults

Orkut is a product created by a Google programmer in his spare time (You know, every Google programmer has the right to spend 20% of his working time on his own projects). Orkut began its development in the USA, but subsequently became widespread in Brazil (about 65% of users).
Recommended: Brazilian youth.

AIM pages - The youngest social network among the most popular. This is AOL's attempt to push MySpace into the social networking market. It was believed that AIM Pages would be a real breakthrough, but she still has a long way to go.
Recommended for: teenagers, young adults

Hi5 - has about 40 million users. You have to pay to participate in this social network. One of distinctive features system is that you can download music from iTunes for money, add it to your profile. On a free account, you can upload photos up to a whole gigabyte. Kelly Clarkson, Jessica Simpson, Tira Banks have profiles on Hi5.
Recommended for: teenagers, young adults

Panjea is a social network with an economy founded this year. Offers several ways to get paid for your creative work. There is unique system points.
Recommended for: teenagers, young adults

Cyworld originated in Korea and has grown to phenomenal proportions. The daily income of this network is about 300,000 dollars. Now Cyworld is gradually spreading to the US. The network has its own currency (acorns), and each user has his own "minihompy" (profile). Users can decorate their "minihompy" and keep in touch with each other.
Recommended: Teenagers, young adults, Koreans

Tagged is intended mainly for teenagers. The main idea is to be tagged, create tagging teams and earn points in order to become the coolest tagging team. Tagged is slowly gaining popularity among teenagers in the US, but compared to MySpace, it is always secondary.
Recommended for teens

Popist is very similar to MySpace, both in interface and focus. Offers users a large number of open features, such as the ability to integrate with other social networks.
Recommended for teens

Friendster is one of the first networks launched as “ social experiment”, most recently acquired a patent “for social networks”. The network has grown very quickly, but by today it has completely fallen and currently occupies less than 1% of the social network market.
Recommended for teens

Tribe - not so long ago this network was acquired by NBC. The main task of Tribe is not so much in dating and communication, but in uniting users' own social networks. Provides the ability to create so-called “clans”, and is also very well localized due to these same clans.
Recommended for teens

Facebook is a start-up from Silicon Valley. Widespread among colleges and universities in most English-speaking countries. It is the second most popular network after MySpace in the US. This network is not yet available in many countries, but is steadily developing and growing.

ConnectU is very similar to Facebook. It is also designed for students of colleges and universities. ConnectU, unlike Facebook, covers a much smaller number of colleges and universities around the world.
Recommended for: college and university students

Yahoo! 360 - Launched in early 2005, a Yahoo product that provides the ability to combine blogs and photo albums. Only for those over 18 years old - this significantly reduces the list of potential users.
Recommended: adults

PeopleAggregator is Marc Canter's attempt to carve out a niche in the social media space. Based on open standards and functionalities. One of the distinguishing features is that this is just a demo version of the software, which can be purchased later.
Recommended: adults

MommyBuzz - Launched just a couple of months ago, MommyBuzz is designed to enable moms to connect online and share and exchange thoughts and ideas with other moms. A wonderful place for such a target group.
Recommended: moms

MuslimSpace - created by a former student of the faculty computer science American University of Sharjah, MuslimSpace fully justifies its name - MySpace for Muslims. Today, the site has about 15,000 users, and its goal is to be a cleaner and more secure site than MySpace and, of course, only for Muslims.
Recommended: Muslims

Stardoll - Would you like to dress celebrities like paper dolls? Originally called Paperdoll Heaven, Stardoll does exactly that. With a strong social network at its core and almost a million users, Stardoll is gaining mega popularity in the world of kids and teens much like Neopets did a few years ago.
Recommended for: children/teenagers

Imbee – There are a lot of sites for teens, but what about kids? Imbee's goal is to provide a safe and secure social network for kids. So now if your big brother is bragging about his MySpace profile and teasing you can't get one, go to Imbee!
Recommended: children

Dogster is a place where dogs (and their owners) can meet and socialize. On Dogster, each dog has its own web page. The subtitle reads: post pictures of dogs, tell dog stories, make new friends(dogs)!
Recommended for: dogs and their owners

Catster is practically the twin brother of Dogster, developed by the same people, Catster is Dogster for cats. Post photos of cats, tell cat stories, make new friends (cats)! Does anything else need to be explained?
Recommended for: cats and their owners

Fuzzster - Being somewhat of a combination of Dogster and Catster, Fuzzster is the place to be for your cats, dogs and other furry pets. Launched in early 2004, it has grown into a fairly large community of animal lovers.
Recommended for: furry animals and their owners

BookCrossing - In the real world, bookcrossing (book exchange) is carried out like this: someone leaves a book in a public place for others to take and read and then do the same. The goal of the BookCrossing website is to run the same process in the virtual world.
Recommended for: book lovers

Boompa is a site for car enthusiasts, and there are certainly a lot of them on the Internet. The purpose of the network is to become your online garage. Car enthusiasts can show off their “cars” here, find recommendations for their improvement, meet other car enthusiasts, view videos and photos, and much more.
Recommended for: car enthusiasts

Spout is a database of over 250,000 movie titles, Spout is a social network for cinephiles. Here you can find reviews and recommendations, meet other moviegoers. Spout is a good place to visit before you are going to rent a movie.
Recommended for movie buffs

MOG is a Silicon Valley startup whose goal is to connect music lovers with the same interests. A very interesting way to meet new people, also here you can discover new musical directions that you did not know about before.
Recommended: for music lovers

Gusto. There are websites about cars, movies, music, books, animals, but what about travel? Gusto is just a place that brings travelers together based on their lifestyle (expressed in preferences). Here you can also find tons of information, recommendations and travel reviews.

Yub.com combines a social network and shopping. The goal of Yub.com is to provide a sustainable online shopping experience. The "cash back" system is used, when, if one user helps another or vice versa, both users have the opportunity to receive CashBack. Interesting way to shop.
Recommended for: lovers of (online) shopping

Yelp (from the creators of PayPal) is a site similar to Yub in many ways, designed to help shoppers make decisions by showing them reviews from other users. However, unlike Yub, Yelp's more focused on commercial activities and services rather than a consumer-oriented product. Currently only available in the US.
Recommended: Any U.S. Resident (Especially in Big Cities)

- according to surveys, the most popular business network, LinkedIn's goal is to unite colleagues and business partners, to help find new ones. With close to 5 million users, LinkedIn remains popular with business audiences.
Recommended: Mercenaries and businessmen

biddingBuddies - often on auction sites like eBay you have to deal with many people. BiddingBuddies will help you with this. It is the only social network exclusively for eBay users. Now, if you are participating in the auction, why not make friends with the opponents.
Recommended: eBay users (buyers and sellers)

Faqqly - There are so many things you would like to know about your friends, so why not ask them through Faqqly? Faqqly creates an FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page for each user and allows friends to ask each other anything they want.
Recommended for: curious – teenagers, youth

Social networks with the largest number of users

• Created: October, 2010
• Founders: Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger (later joined by others)
• Number of accounts: 200,000,000

Summary: Some are said to normal people use this application to share their photos and videos with friends. However, the tightened guys with an overestimated sense of their own importance were even more delighted with the new lure, which allowed them to share with the whole world the look of their lunch, dinner, carpet, toilet bowl and slippers.

9th place. Classmates

• Created: March, 2006
• Founders: Albert Popkov
• Number of accounts: 205,000,000

Brief description: Odnoklassniki is said to rank first among domestic social networks in terms of the number of downloaded pornography. Also, Odnoklassniki was remembered for paid registration from 2008 to 2010 (only a stripped-down demo version of the account could be opened for free). Average age of users: about 30 years old.

8th place. Tumblr

• Created: 2007
• Founders: David Karp
• Number of accounts: 210,000,000

Short description: social network for bloggers. You write a blog, post pictures and reveal your amazing inner world to others. Your friends do the same. To cheer each other up in this not a simple matter, you can like and comment on individual elements of revealing individuality.

7th place. Badoo

• Created: November, 2006
• Founders: Andrey Andreev
• Number of accounts: 220,000,000

Short description: perhaps the most popular international dating site, which includes all the elements of a social network.

6th place. LinkedIn

• Created: May, 2003
• Founders: Reed Hoffman
• Number of accounts: 225,000,000

Short description: business social business network. The site interface is available in 20 languages. Representatives of about 200 different countries are registered in the network. Users have the opportunity to leave a resume, find a job, publish lists of available vacancies, search for information about various enterprises, establish business contacts, share information about upcoming conferences, business meetings, visits, etc. In a word: boredom. And no Frenzy Farm.

5th place. In contact with

Short description: of course, this social network is no worse than others. But it is annoying only because of the significance it plays in the minds of schoolchildren and adolescents: in the most clinical cases, you can admire a real network addiction. Giza ... Tellingly, the creator of the eyelid, Pavel Durov, retired in the spring of 2013 and now has only a “historical” relationship to Vk.

4th place. Sina Weibo

Short description: It is easy to be a popular social network if your homeland is China. Sina Weibo has combined the functions of Facebook and Twitter, targeting a Chinese audience. The Chinese said "Ni hao!" and since then they have been living together. By the way, this is the only social network from our rating that does not have a Russian interface.

3rd place. Twitter

2nd place. Google+

Number of accounts: 540,000,000

Short description: the funny thing is that many of these social media opponents of yours have become involved in the Google+ sect. And it all started harmlessly: by acquiring a tempting mailbox from Google. Its temptation lies in the following: firstly, it ends with kosher all over the world.com, and secondly, as a nice bonus, each user receives virtual storage on Google Drive.

And so you use your mail, upload a couple of photos, put +1 on the publications of your friends and quietly laugh at the losers who have been sucked into social networks.

What is interesting: one of the main principles of its work, Google called privacy (already ridiculous). At the same time, the information that the user posts, sends / receives by mail, directly affects the result of search queries. Google says it's personalization George Orwell says big brother is watching you O.O.

Since the invention of the Internet by man, and it would not hurt to erect a monument to the first person who did this, the attitude towards marketing and advertising has changed, in addition, people have become much closer, although they have forgotten how to write letters. Despite the lack of live communication, we are increasingly communicating through social networks designed so that you can always be aware of changes in the lives of loved ones and friends, even if they live on the other side of the Earth. It is unfortunate that in Ukraine the nationalist elite canceled the popular Russian networks, meanwhile, all of them entered the rating of social networks in 2018. We are offering it to you now.

What indicators to consider

There are 251 countries in the world today, although there is a high probability that their number will increase in the near future (at the expense of the same Ukraine), and each state lives by its own laws. This applies, among other things, to attitudes towards the World Wide Web and social networks. The Chinese, for example, completely abandoned American and Russian networks and created their own. They are very popular here and the Chinese seem to be quite happy with that.

We will not take into account the exception in the form of countries where the Internet is completely prohibited. In any case, we will not impose our opinion and question the popularity of this or that project, especially since the opinion of Russians, Belarusians and the same ordinary Ukrainians differs significantly from the opinion of Americans and Australians, for example. The main thing is that communication should be sincere and the special services should not interfere with it, and it is not a secret that communication via the Internet is under increased control.

world ranking

Analysts, and these, fortunately, are not always politicized people who conduct independent research, have identified the top five, ranking the social networks in the world. Perhaps, Russians and residents of other countries will not like it, but you can’t argue with the facts, and these projects are indeed the most popular, and the experts placed them in this order not by chance.

• Fifth place. Despite the bans and anti-Russian sanctions, the Russian project VKontakte entered the TOP of popularity. Created in 2006, it is very popular today, and the fact that the number of users is approaching 300 million indicates that VK is used not only in Russia. It is in demand in many countries, and especially where the Russian language is still considered native for many.

• Second place. In the near future, perhaps, Google+ will claim the title of the best social network in the world, but today it is only “silver”. Created in 2001, the network already has 600 million accounts, while its popularity is an ambiguous question, but it is always in the top ten.

If you are an active Internet user, then there is nothing surprising in how social networks are ranked by popularity. Perhaps many have not heard about the Chinese project "Sina Weibo", but most do not need it, in fact, if you do not want to establish contact with the Chinese, of course (to organize a joint business, for example). The Russians, on the other hand, have their own understanding of the issue, so Russian sociologists have compiled their own rating of social networks in Russia in 2018, which we offer to familiarize yourself with.

Russian rating

If we talk about projects that are respected among Russians, then it is worth Special attention turn to domestic products. I would not like to mix simple communication between people with geopolitics, although this is often the case. We are interested in sincere communication without politics, although it is present, but how else, because it is not fashionable today to be apolitical. Russians, being educated people, which Americans cannot boast of, cannot ignore political processes, and how else can they express their opinion better than through social networks.

• Third place. “My World” is the domestic answer to “Google+”, which is very popular in the world. Every month the number of Russian-speaking users increases by 15-16 million, while Moi Mir cannot yet compare with the world leaders.

• Second place. While most projects use young people to communicate, people of all ages communicate on Odnoklassniki. Many even consider that this is the best social network for dating in Russia, but the facts are a stubborn thing and therefore at the moment it is an honorary "silver".

• First place. The popularity rating of social networks in Russia in 2018 was topped by the Vkontakte project, which has already united almost 300 million people from different countries. Through the Vkontakte group, you can not only get to know each other and communicate, but also advertise your business, for which unique tools and opportunities are provided.

Perhaps the TOP of social networks in Russia in 2018, in your understanding, looks different, and many would prefer to put Facebook and even Lenkedln among the leaders, which is not recommended for communication to Russians. In any case, it is difficult to imagine the life of a modern young person without such distance communication. The main thing is that communication should be sincere, and try to avoid communication for political reasons - remember Professor Preobrazhensky, who did not recommend reading newspapers before dinner.

It is no secret that millions of Internet users visit social networks every day. They communicate with each other, download, view videos, pictures, photos, etc. The lion's share of activity on the World Wide Web falls on these sites called social networks. But which of them is the most popular and visited? Below is a list of the ten most popular social networks. networks in the world.

Vine

Vine is a service and mobile application that allows you to create and publish short videos no longer than 6 seconds. The service was founded in June 2012 by Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll. However, prior to its official launch, Vine was acquired by Twitter, Inc for $30 million. Vine debuted as a free app on January 24, 2013 and was initially only available for IOS devices. However, it later became available for Android and Windows Phone. On April 9, 2013, the app became the most downloaded free app in the App Store. At the end of June, it already had 13 million users, and about 1 million new videos began to appear on the service daily. About 42,000,000 people visit Vine every month.

Flickr

In ninth place in the ranking of the most popular social networks. networks is Flickr - a site for posting photos and videos, as well as viewing, discussing, rating and archiving. Allows you to communicate and create thematic groups. The service was launched on February 10, 2004, and in March 2005 it was bought by the American company Yahoo! As of March 2013, Flickr had 87 million registered users and over 3.5 million new images uploaded per day.

In contact with

VKontakte is a social network based in St. Petersburg and owned by Mail.Ru Group. The project was launched on October 10, 2006. The site is available in several languages, but it is especially popular among the Russian-speaking audience. Like other social networks, VKontakte allows its users to exchange messages, images, audio, video, create groups, public pages and events, as well as play Flash games based on the browser. As of January 2015, the site's audience is about 71 million people a day.

Instagram

Instagram is a free application for sharing photos and short videos with the ability to distribute them through its service to other social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr. Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and launched in October 2010 as a free mobile application. The service quickly gained popularity. As of April 2012, it had 100 million active users worldwide, and 300 million as of December 2014. In April 2012, Instagram was acquired by Facebook for approximately $1 billion.

Tumblr

Sixth place in the list of the most popular social networks in the world is occupied by Tumblr, a microblogging service that allows users to post text messages, images, videos, links and audio recordings to their tumblrlog. The site was founded in 2007 by David Karp. May 18, 2013 Yahoo! acquired the service for $1.1 billion. As of 2015, Tumblr has about 220 million registered blogs.

Google+

Google+ is a social network developed and owned by Google Inc. The service was launched on June 28, 2011. And two weeks after its launch on July 14, 2011, Google announced that the Google+ social network has over 10 million users. As of September 17, 2012, the site's audience is 400 million users, and the active monthly audience has reached 135 million people.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a social network designed to find and establish business contacts. It was founded in December 2002 by Reid Hoffman and launched on May 5, 2003. The site is available in 24 languages ​​and has over 380 million registered users representing 150 different business sectors from 200 countries. About half of the users are from the US, 25 million from Europe.

pinterest

Third place in the list of the ten most popular social networks in the world is Pinterest - social. network, photo hosting, allowing users to add and share images. The site was founded by Ben Silberman, Paul Saerr and Evan Sharp in March 2010. As of February 2013, Pinterest has 48.7 million users worldwide.

Twitter - social a microblock network and service that allows users to create and exchange public short messages of up to 140 characters. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and launched in July 2006. The service quickly gained popularity around the world, with over 100 million users posting around 340 million tweets a day in 2012. As of May 2015, Twitter has over 500 million registered users, of which over 302 million are active. For 2012 more than 900 employees work in the company.

Facebook

Facebook is the largest and most popular social network in the world and is available in over 70 languages. Owned by Facebook, Inc., headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, USA. The site was launched on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and his Harvard University roommates and fellow students Dustin Moskowitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes. As of July 2014, the Facebook audience was 1.32 billion users, and the average daily audience of social. The network has 968 million users (approximately every 7th person on the planet is registered with Facebook). The site is valued at around $100 billion, making Mark Zuckerberg, at 23, the world's youngest billionaire.