Social Network Applications Among Most Popular Internet Sites

Getting actual usage numbers on social network applications isn’t easy. While most surveys and studies only represent the U.S. market, the actual numbers of social network profiles on the Internet can only be estimated by statistics reported by social network application providers such as Facebook, MySpace, Xing, and others.

An interesting insight can be gained, though, when periodically studying the Global Top 500 Internet sites reported by the web information company Alexa. The following pure social network sites are listed as of today amongst the 100 most popular online sites visited globally:

• MySpace ( Rank 6 )
• Facebook ( Rank 8 )
• Orkut ( Rank 11 )
• QQ ( Rank 17 )
• Hi5 ( Rank 19 )
• V Kontakte ( Rank 30 )
• Friendster ( Rank 40 )
• Skyrock ( Rank 41 )
• Oduoklassniki ( Rank 44 )
• Mixi ( Rank 62 )
• PerfSpot ( Rank 76 )

Interesting to see that the Chinese social network “QQ” is now ranked 17th amongst the most popular Internet sites and is expected to outgrow Facebook and MySpace pretty soon. The Russian social network sites “Oduoklassniki” and “V Kontakte” have also made it amongst the Top 100.

I would be interested in seeing some numbers for the social network profiles existing on the Internet and possibly also the maturity, depth, and authenticity of those profiles. Maybe someone has some hints on information sources providing such information.

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