Top 8 Social Media Sites You Need to Know to Reach Mass

tarunpatel — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:02:05 +0000

Here’s the list of the top eight social media sites, anyone should use to reach the big mass and open up:

Facebook: Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people’s real-world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment.
Twitter: A “micro-blogging” social network site. Members send each other short text-based posts (tweets) of up to 140 characters.

YouTube: The Internet’s number one video-sharing site. Members share and comment on each other’s videos. You can post a link on your profile page can direct other people to your site.
LinkedIn: The most popular business-oriented social networking site on the Web. It’s a great place to find potential business partners as well as people who may be interested in your products or services.
Digg: One of the ‘Net’s most popular news-sharing websites. Members post links to their favorite news articles and then comment and vote on the ones they like best.
Stumbleupon: Wikipedia calls this social networking site a “personalized recommendation engine.” Members can explore and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. When they hit the “Stumble!” button on the site’s toolbar, the results displayed are ranked based on your previous ratings as well as the ratings of friends and of members with similar interests.
Yelp: A popular review site where members write reviews about local businesses. If you own a local business, this one’s for you!
Delicious: A popular bookmarking site. Members save links to their favorite websites or articles — just like the bookmarks in your browser — and share those links with other people.

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