The Internet and everything connected with it today is wildly popular among all segments of the population, regardless of age, gender and status. Social media is the best way to stay in touch with friends and family, and to keep up with the latest news and updates.

The variety of social networks is quite huge and for every person there is an optimal option that suits perfectly according to all criteria, from the interface to the available menus and options. There is even a rating of social networks 2017, which contains the best social networks, according to the world, mankind. The data for creating such a rating is collected according to statistics. The total number of visitors and actions on the social network are the main criteria for ranking promotion. The number of registered users also plays a role. If we consider the rating of social networks in the world , then it will look like this:

• In fifth place in the world ranking of social networks is such a network as Vkontakte. Marvelous? If it were not for the withdrawal of the social network "LinkedIn" from the Russian Federation, the latter would have a larger audience. At the same time, the correct actions of the Vkontakte management on the South American market allowed getting enough new audience to enter the world top 5 social networks.

Rating of social networks in Russia 2017

The world ranking is the total number of people selected around the planet. In each country, the top five can differ significantly, because people do not always give the same preference. For example, the popularity rating of social networks in Russia in 2017 will look like this:

Communication on social networks has long become commonplace for modern Internet users. On the vastness of the global web, people solve many issues, share their experiences, demonstrate joyful moments, follow the events taking place in the lives of relatives and friends. This demand for social networks has not gone unnoticed by software developers. It is not surprising, because everyone wants to promote their product, get a decent profit and universal recognition.

We present the rating of the most popular social networks that have a large audience of users in the world for 2017. In the ranking, I refer mainly to the statistics gs.statcounter.com, which tracks sites such as: Google+, LinkedIn, Facebook, StumbleUpon, YouTube, Twitter, reddit, Digg, MySpace, NowPublic, iWiW, orkut, Fark, Delicious, VKontakte, Hi5, Yahoo! Buzz, Vimeo, Mixx, FriendFeed, Hyves, Bebo, Tuenti, Kaboodle, Odnoklassniki. To learn more about their methodology, go to.

Since some sites (for example Odnoklassniki), taking into account their methodology, do not fall into the charts, the article will also use statistics for the Runet gs.seo-auditor.com.ru. Attention! Their statistics vary greatly. This is due to a different methodology. The former measure social media usage based on page views (not unique visitors).

The second graph shows the numbers as of June 2017:

We see that the Vkontakte indicator has dropped significantly. Interestingly, according to these statistics, Twitter took its place. How the statistics have changed during the year, see.

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TOP popular social platforms in Russia

As of June 2017:

According to gs.seo-auditor.com.ru, the methodology of which is different, the popularity figures as a percentage are:

The most popular social networks in Belarus

There are also two leaders in Belarus: Vkontakte and Facebook.

Moreover, at the end of the year, VK lost to FB and they swapped places.

Social web popularity statistics in Kazakhstan

Most of the pastime of users of Kazakhstan falls on Facebook:

Moreover, Vkontakte here also lost a little position at the end of the year:

Kazakh Internet users are consistently loyal to the video aggregator Youtube.

Figures and trends in the world

The irreplaceable leader of the world in statistics gs.statcounter.com is Facebook again:

Pinterst ranks second and is actively gaining popularity, primarily due to its new feature.

Twitter is positively stable as always. Although his news feed is much more attractive now.

According to the table c, the number of network users around the world per month is:

As you can see, the leaders have a big lead.

Facebook

Nearly 2 billion monthly visitors.

The social network, founded by a young businessman Mark Zuckerberg, is confidently leading among similar services. Every month, about two billion people from different parts of the world use this resource for various purposes. Such demand among the world's population obliges Facebook to adapt to each user. Therefore, today there are more than 60 language versions of this web resource so that people from different countries have the opportunity to communicate with each other. Despite all the vicissitudes and financial crises, Facebook is successfully developing, attracting an increasing number of subscribers. And the founder of the Internet network, taking advantage of the growing popularity of his brainchild, does not get tired of donating the received funds to charity, thereby winning the love of Internet users even more.

Twitter

(more than 300 million visits per month)

Interest in Twitter is due to the ease of use of this service, as well as the speed of displaying messages. There is nothing easier than registering on a social network page and immediately get into the thick of things, find out the latest news, share your opinion with other people, etc. Twitter was founded two years later than Facebook, but it is already confidently breathing in the back of the recognized leader. This social network is popular in many countries of the world, not only in the vastness of the post-Soviet states, but also far beyond their borders.

Linkedin

(more than 100 million users per month)

This web-based system is especially in demand among businessmen. This love of entrepreneurs from all over the world can be explained quite simply: using this Internet resource, you can successfully promote your business, make useful contacts, look for employees in different parts of the world, and also receive orders from partners living far from themselves. Here you can easily post your resume or vacancy announcement, find companies whose job profile matches your interests, and much more.

Pinterest

(approximately 150,000,000 monthly)

In the ranking of world leaders under consideration, Pinterest takes a worthy position. Although, in terms of the number of users, Pinterest is 7 in the table, it is rapidly gaining popularity. And most likely, residents of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other CIS countries will soon include this social network in the leading list, since it has sufficient potential.

Instagram

700 million visitors visit Instagram every month.

The Instagram resource gained popularity thanks to the thoughtful management of the Facebook owners. It was they who bought the rights to this social network and brought it to the favorites.

In addition to those already mentioned, I would like to pay special attention to other social services, which are included in some of the lists of the most popular social networks. We are talking about the web resource Youtube (one billion registered users), which is in second place. In addition, it is worth mentioning VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, one of the most popular communication platforms used by residents of the CIS countries. Now Ukraine is no longer included in their list, since the mentioned social networks are blocked on the territory of the state by providers, such a decree was signed by the President of the country.

It is also worth mentioning Viber, WhatsApps, Telegram and other social resources that are present in various ratings.

A large selection of all kinds of social networks makes their owners constantly evolve, and users only benefit from such rivalry. The main thing is that the competition is fair and healthy, using only open (and legal) methods of fighting for a place in the sun. And consumers will decide for themselves which social network they prefer.

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  Attendance: 15 | Follows: 2156

• In contact with

  VKontakte is a universal tool for communication and finding friends and classmates, which tens of millions of people use every day. We want friends, classmates, classmates, neighbors and colleagues to always stay in touch.

  Attendance: 16 | Visits: 2676

• Tumblr

  Tumblr is a microblogging service with social media elements that allows users to post text messages, images, videos, links, quotes and audio recordings to their Tumbllog, short format blog. Post whatever you want. Share photos, videos, quotes, chats, links and text posts.

  Attendance: 74 | Visits: 1942

• Mirtesen

  Attendance: 2056 | Follows: 2075

• Foursquare

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  Attendance: 2280 | Follows: 704

• 2ch.hk (Two.h)

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  Attendance: 3331 | Follows: 929

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  Attendance: 25346 | Follows: 551

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  Attendance: 35489 | Follows: 354

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  Attendance: 226949 | Follows: 1016

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  Attendance: 957009 | Follows: 852

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• i-Worker

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It is no secret that social networks are visited by millions of Internet users every day. They communicate with each other, upload, view videos, pictures, photos, etc. The lion's share of the activity on the World Wide Web falls precisely on these sites called social networks. But which of them is the most popular and most visited? Below is a list of the ten most popular social media sites. 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 on 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 every day. Vine has about 42,000,000 visits every month.

Flickr

In ninth place in the ranking of the most popular social media. networks hosts Flickr - a site for posting photos and videos, as well as viewing, discussing, evaluating and archiving them. 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 the 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, and play Flash games based on a browser. As of January 2015, the site's audience is about 71 million people a day.

Instagram

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

Tumblr

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

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 social network Google+ 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.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a social network for finding and establishing business contacts. It was founded in December 2002 by Reed Hoffman and launched on May 5, 2003. The site is available in 24 world languages ​​and has over 380 million registered users representing 150 different business sectors from 200 countries. About half of the users are from the United States, 25 million from Europe.

Pinterest

The third place in the list of ten most popular social networks in the world is taken by Pinterest - social. web, 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 allowing 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, who in 2012 posted about 340 million tweets per day. As of May 2015, Twitter has over 500 million registered users, of which over 302 million are active. For 2012, the company employs over 900 employees.

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 roommates and fellow students at Harvard University - Dustin Moskovitz, 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 about $ 100 billion, making Mark Zuckerberg the planet's youngest billionaire at 23.

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Social network - a site with which you can communicate with other users of the resource. On such Internet sites, you can publish and view information from other registered participants: music, photo and video materials, documents, articles, write comments.

The growing popularity of such portals prompts to use them not only for personal purposes. Promotion and support of companies, sale of goods, services are the goals of strategies in social marketing (SMM). The key to success is choosing the right network from the many available. Otherwise, the time spent on finding the target audience will be useless. What social networks exist on the Internet, how do they differ from each other and how have they gained popularity among their users? Let's take a closer look.

Social media history

The first prototype of the service for communication was described back in 1837 in a science fiction novel by Vladimir Odoevsky. The theory and principles of creation are set forth in the works of mathematicians of the 1950-1960s. In 1954, the term itself appears. Social networks got their real embodiment with the widespread development of the Internet.

The first similarity was the resource Classmates.com in 1995, where pupils and students from different educational institutions could be found. More familiar now look and functions appeared in the SixDegrees.com project in 1997. Registration, creating a personal profile, finding friends, communicating with them - innovative opportunities for that time.

Social networks, which are now familiar, began to appear en masse since 2003. LinkedIn and Facebook go live. Since 2006, Odnoklassniki and VKontakte have been created in Russia. Since then, the number of resources has been constantly increasing, they have new functions that are not only convenient for users for entertainment and communication, but also for doing business.

What are the social networks on the Internet

By functionality and capabilities for users, you can segment what kind of social networks are. To classify by content type, the following types of social networks can be distinguished:

Functionality

There are a lot of options for what to do on the resources for communication, but the main thing can be highlighted. Services allow:

• Communicate - with colleagues, friends, like-minded people and a lot of people who are interesting by one criterion or another. You can join interest groups, meet for specific purposes, share personal information with all or selected visitors to the resource.
• Search - people (according to certain parameters, for example, educational institutions, places of work, city of residence), companies and goods that are offered for sale through communication sites.
• To share news - the media and news agencies have their own pages. Information about events can be added by all participants.
• To have a rest - this is facilitated by a mass of various content, paid or free of charge, placed on the portal: films, games, music.
• Learn - educational programs, lessons, materials and advice from other people provide useful information in different areas of life. Learn to cook, master the grammatical subtleties of another language, attend master classes on making useful items with your own hands, hone your skills in using technology or computer programs - all this is in abundance.
• Store files, share them.
• Find a job or an employee - professional networks are created to exchange experience, develop business ties, and search for vacancies with employers.
• Share documents - working on one task has never been easier! Borders, time differences, and other factors are leveled by general access, the ability to comment and edit materials.

Reasons for popularity

The huge interest in communication sites that has been observed in recent years is understandable. Among the main reasons:

Regardless of what kind of social networks there are, users are increasingly aware of the hidden threats from their use. And it's not just about dependence on a computer or other gadget, although the time spent is valuable. Much worse, and sometimes even more dangerous, is the fact that personal life circumstances become known to a wide range of people. The intentions of the latter are not always honest. Here are just a few examples:

• Thieves can find out the time of a long absence of the owners of an apartment or house from bright photos from the vacation.
• For kidnapping, information about the parents will play into the hands, which will convince the baby to believe that the person really knows mom or dad.
• It is easier to choose a potential victim by making sure of the material viability of a person according to information from open sources.
• Groups for adolescents are being created that encourage suicide.

It is becoming a common practice when, before hiring, HR-employees look through the pages of a potential candidate, wanting to learn more about him, habits and social circle. Candid photos, aggressive posts, support for extremism and other moments can play a negative role in both employment and career.

Personal data leaks, audience manipulation, account hacking and subsequent use are increasingly common. And even the giants in this area are not immune from such troubles. All this makes you think about what to publish on the resources and who to give access to viewing, teaches you to observe the minimum requirements of caution on the network.

Trends and Prospects

A 2017 report from We Are Social and Hootsuite shows strong growth in social media users. With a total population of about 7.5 billion people, more than 3 billion are registered in certain applications. 1 million new registrations occur every day. Moreover, the number of visits to sites from mobile devices is growing - almost 90% of visitors use smartphones and tablets, rather than desktop computers.

At the same time, if a couple of years ago it was possible to quickly find out news and events from the life of real people on the platforms for communication, now the situation is radically changing. There are more and more advertisements, posts about "cats", motivators and other general information. And this is no longer such a close, close and familiar social circle. The level of trust decreases, which means that it becomes more difficult to sell something.

There are new and new startups that, although they will not move Facebook from the leadership position in the near future, will attract part of the audience. It is required to plan a marketing campaign more carefully and with a preliminary analysis of the selected resource, product and target audience.

Forecasts boil down to the fact that active growth will slow down and the boom of social networks will subside. You should not give up the usual web portal in favor of just a page on Facebook, VK or another network. The usual Internet and sites will remain on a par with social networks.

What are the most popular social networks

Dozens of services work. Some of them - beloved in several countries or even around the world, others - unite citizens of one country and are not widely spread outside its borders. An overview of what social networks are and a list of popular world services is offered below.

Facebook

Unconditional first place is provided by over 2.2 billion accounts in the world. Facebook has been operating since 2004, created by Mark Zuckerberg. A simple and free communication service that allows you to:

• Register your own page where photos and other materials are posted.
• Find other users, add them as friends, find out their news.
• Share information from the network or from other participants, upload videos and photographs.
• Create groups (open or closed).
• Get news.
• Comment and rate publications.

Facebook Inc. (service owner) is constantly expanding its capabilities. Hyperlocal advertising (within a certain radius of the advertiser), Snapchat (disappearing stories), GIF animation for commenting, saving interesting materials, messenger and other functions confidently keep users interested.

Youtube

The video hosting You Tube from Google is the most popular video network in the world. It is also considered a social network, as it allows users to register, communicate, share their videos. Here you can find information for all tastes from entertainment to training courses. Founded in February 2005 in the USA. At the beginning of 2018, it has over 1.5 billion active users, and the result of several million views of popular videos is quite achievable.

Key features:

• Upload your videos for viewing.
• Various formats are supported: panoramas, HD, Full HD, MPEG-4 AVC and others.
• Edit video from the browser using editor programs (add titles, audio tracks, images, transitions).
• Comment, rate other people's videos or comments.
• Create group chats.
• Maintain a video channel.

The company tries to control the content of the resource, periodically removing videos that violate copyright, are recognized as extremist. In some countries, the resource is blocked for publishing materials that are objectionable to the authorities.

Whatsapp

Mobile messenger for over 1.2 billion people. Created by WhatsApp in 2009, since 2014 - owned by Facebook Inc. It is considered a social network for its functions:

• Correspondence between participants.
• Creation of groups, communication in the group chat mode.
• Share videos, music and other content.
• Ability to assign statuses to an account.

These capabilities allow WhatsApp to be classified as a social network, with one peculiarity - it works on the basis of a phone book. To communicate, you need the phone number of the interlocutor. It limits this, or vice versa, allows you to maintain privacy - there are different opinions. One of the advantages is that a large number of versions have been developed that support different operating systems, including Symbian (which is a rarity).

Instagram

An application for different operating systems for publishing pictures and short videos (up to 60 seconds), viewing materials from other participants, with the ability to rate and comment. Since its launch in 2010, Instagram has attracted more than 1.1 billion registered members. In 2012, Facebook Inc. was acquired. Popular features:

• Blogging.
• Photo processing - effects, frames, special shooting modes, collages.
• Creation of your profile and publications feed.
• View friends, rate and comment on their publications.
• Cross-posting - simultaneous posting of material in several social networks.
• Search for the necessary information by hashtags (special marks).

Instagram - is especially popular among young people under the age of 25 and is actively developing. This network is one of the most promising for business, product promotion, brand promotion and services.

Wechat

The leader among Chinese services is WeChat, a micropost application. Given the ban in the country of the world's favorites Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, Chinese users communicate with their developments. WeChat is more than just an app, there are many more options. Basic:

• Personal communication, video calls, voice messages.
• Group chats for up to 500 people.
• Blogs, reviews, reviews, “Moments”.
• Paying bills and shopping.
• Dating (including geographic search).
• Photo editing, text translation.
• One account on different devices at the same time.

And although there are a number of restrictions (for example, one publication per day), the application is relatively new (has been working since 2011), the number of accounts is approaching a billion. WeChat is promoted outside of China (Russia, India and other countries).

Qzone

Chinese social network with opportunities: blogging, watching videos, listening to music, chatting, shopping. Basic options are free, additional options are available with a premium subscription. Since its foundation (2005) it has attracted 600 million participants. Available in English and Chinese.

Sina Weibo

A Chinese version of microblogging, similar in general to Facebook and Twitter. Since its inception (2009) it has attracted the attention of over 500 million users. Development is constrained by the support of the English and Chinese languages, the state censorship of the country. It has a convenient tree-like structure of comments, an online shopping service, a premium profile with advanced functionality. On the network, you can chat, get acquainted, upload and view photos, search for interesting information and follow the news.

Google+

Google's own development. The principle of operation is based on the concept of circles. The user creates them himself, regulating who and what information will be available. Key features: exchange of photos, videos, links, games, group chats, support for mobile devices, video conferencing. Launched in 2011, more than 135 million users. The profile is associated with email from Google and affects search results. The service is considered one of the most promising, and the number of accounts is expected to grow steadily in the coming years.

LinkedIn

A network for professionals. More than 500 million users from 200 countries communicate on its pages. The main emphasis is not on entertainment, humor, news and other content familiar to other services, but a resume, portfolio, a list of skills (with confirmation from real people), vacancies. Asking colleagues for advice, discussing professional issues, looking for a job or employees, getting recommendations are LinkedIn's tasks. The project was launched in 2003, acquired by Microsoft in 2016.

Twitter

He started working in the USA in 2006. Features: blogging in short messages (maximum 280 characters). An interesting option is "Moments" (stories with development). You can learn about high-profile, popular news without subscribing to other users. People known in various fields from show business to sports maintain their microblogs on Twitter. The total number of accounts exceeds 330 million.

What social networks are there in Russia

In Russia, the popularity of online communication services does not lag behind world indicators. Only there are favorites - Russian Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki. Anyone who promotes their goods or brand through SMM is a must to know their leaders in this industry.

The rating of all social networks in Russia is assessed as part of the traffic generated by this service on the Runet. The assessment is based on the results of research in 2018 of the largest Russian statistical data collection services on the network: Yandex.Metrica, SpyLog / Openstat, LiveInternet, Hotlog, Рейтинг@Mail.ru.

These services are leading in terms of the activity of Russians. Let us briefly dwell on two main national developments.

In contact with

Russian network, established in 2006. Belongs to the Mail.Ru Group company. Supports over 90 languages, over 460 million registered users. The most popular among Russian-speaking users - the leader of all social networks in Russia in terms of use. Opportunities:

• Creating your own page.
• Correspondence with other project participants.
• Sending pictures, audio and video recordings.
• Collaborative online games.

This resource is most often chosen for online stores and sales. This is facilitated by a wide range of opportunities and a large Russian-speaking audience.

classmates

Another successful development of Mail.Ru Group. Ranked third in popularity in Russia with over 330 million members. The project is available in 14 languages, has been operating since 2006. Key features:

• Own page for publishing information.
• Communication by messages or video calls.
• Search for people by different parameters.
• Payment for goods, money transfers.
• Additional paid options (invisibility, blacklist ...).

The Odnoklassniki project works in both full and mobile versions, which is convenient, saves network traffic and time to load the page.

List of social networks

An unambiguous answer to the question "which social networks are better?" no. Each of them has a number of advantages and is popular in a particular environment. Country, age, circle of interests pay attention to preferences. We have decided on the main services, but the choice is much wider. Below is a list that includes the most popular projects.
Social networks of the world:

• For communication: Facebook, VKontakte, Mirtesen, Pinterest, Moi [email protected], Odnoklassniki, xbeee.com, Pikabu, ASKfm, Cloob, Instagram, Google+, Myspace, RetroShare, Vine.
• Thematic: Promise Bank, Diary, NaStene, Habbo, Jeep-er Club, AutoPCL Autoclub, NumPlate, Last.fm, Olvet Community Network, MyAnimeList, Untappd, CHIF.SU, Wakoopa, All-Union, ktoprochto.ru, Nekto.me , Drawi.ru, Generations, Oldies.ru, Mom's page, MommyBuzz, BabyBlog, Badoo, Mamba, LovePlanet, Vichatter.net, Violetta, MegaMixGroup, Sociale by Vampir4ik, Ilovecinema.ru, Goodreads, Oplace, Zeenga.ru, We place , DRUZHNO.COM, Peers, Lemberg, Limpa, Badoo, LibertySpace, Locals.ru, Facerunet.ru, Krabitsa, Love Me Tender, Vpiski.Net, Neforu.ru, Budist.ru, Politix.ru, Politiko, In the Army, Classmates, Smeshariki, My School.com, KSODIS, TOP Podnoklassniki, Webkrug.ru, Car2gether, Tourout.ru, Marshruty.ru, Geoid, Naarende, IT-Specialists, Habrahabr, Abyrvalg.NET, BookHook, Rybakiohotniki.ru, Foursquare, Schoolmen ...
• Professional: Doctor at work, My Circle, Professionals, E-xecutive, Mendeley, iVrach, LinkedIn, Viadeo, Academia.edu, Voiceland, Webby.ru, My Business Card, ResearchGate ,.
• For blogs: Instagram, Fixfeel, Twitter, TipTopic.net, RuTvit, Toodoo, Blogosphere, LiveJournal, LiveJournal, Diary.ru.
• Asian: Tencent Qzone, Sina Weibo, QQ, Renren, Pengyou, WeChat, Douban.

Find like-minded people, meet love, consult, learn something new and just chat - everything is possible on social networks. And what are the most popular you now know.