Social Media.

The proliferation of social media sites has reached an incredible pace. This is great as now every niche has at least one social news outlet.

It is almost impossible to keep track or even find the sites you are looking for. Thus several bloggers have devised lists that not only link the social news sites mentioned but also categorize them.

Today I want to share with you a meta-list of the 10 best lists of social media sites.

As most people just want to find out the most influential or popular social media sites I will list them first though:

  1. Facebook – Sharing everything with family and friends
  2. Youtube – Video
  3. Twitter – Short message and link sharing
  4. Flickr – Image community
  5. MySpace – Music and gossip
  6. StumbleUpon – Discovery/browsing of popular sites
  7. Delicious – Bookmarks
  8. Tumblr – Media sharing and mini-blogging
  9. Digg – Odd, tech, gaming and Apple news
  10. Reddit – News and rants

Here are the lists that encompass hundreds of social sites. Some of them are topical lists others are sorted according to formal or structural criteria:

  1. Top Social Media Sites by Vladimir Prelovac
  2. Categorized List of Social Media and Social Networking Websites | Traffikd
  3. Resource List: 40+ Sites For Writers | Social Media Trader
  4. 48 Social News Websites You Can Use
  5. Social Bookmarking Sites for All Occasions – SEOlogs.com
  6. 125 Social Bookmarking Sites : Importance of User Generated Tags, Votes and Links
  7. 83 Social News Sites – Categorized By Niche | Squareoak Blog
  8. 67 Foreign Language Social Bookmarking Sites Revealed
  9. 19 Great Music Recommendation Sources
  10. 3spots: All the digg-style applications: The list !!!

Remember though that you can’t possibly participate at dozens of social media sites at the same time. Choose not more than 3 to 5 and focus on these.

Personally I focus on

currently.

Last updated: August 14th, 2010.

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  1. Maki (4 comments.)
    Posted February 5, 2008 at 2:01 am | Permalink

    Tad,

    You left out my list here.. or was it not good enough?
    http://www.doshdosh.com/list-of-social-media-news-websites/

    Some of the lists you have above feature sites that are dead/inactive. It’s not about having a comprehensive or big list but rather the sites that matter or are useful IMO..

  2. Steven Snell (1 comments.)
    Posted February 5, 2008 at 2:07 am | Permalink

    Tad,
    Thanks for the mention. I completely agree with your advice about picking 3 – 5 to concentrate on. In my opinion it is ideal if you can have a few niche social media sites in there in addition to a couple major ones.

  3. onreact (641 comments.)
    Posted February 5, 2008 at 10:20 am | Permalink

    Maki, shame on me! It was my fault. Wrote it at night and basically fell asleep breaking my blog while at it…
    Which ones are inactive?

    Steven, now that I think of it: You too have another list of that type already don’t you?

  4. Don Draper (1 comments.)
    Posted February 7, 2008 at 12:03 am | Permalink

    I guess it’s ok that you missed our list, since it only came out last night:

    http://promote-my-site.com/index.php/140-114-Social-Media-Sites-Where-You-Can-Use-Automation.html

  5. Jon Henshaw (1 comments.)
    Posted February 7, 2008 at 9:23 pm | Permalink

    Oh the irony of another list of lists. Thanks for putting it together. Bookmarked!

  6. Lukas (2 comments.)
    Posted February 9, 2008 at 8:21 am | Permalink

    Thanks for the list Tad!
    I think Maki’s list is the best one as it contains only active sites.

  7. Mayor of Kentonville (6 comments.)
    Posted June 8, 2008 at 1:56 pm | Permalink

    Thank you for the posting. I have to admit, I must not be all that social. I have not heard of most of these. Keep up the good work.

  8. Youfest (1 comments.)
    Posted June 7, 2009 at 1:22 am | Permalink

    Hi everyone…. ive got a free social media website just for festival and music lovers to see their favorite music band live or at festivals….. check it out be a part of it!!

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