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 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:
- Facebook – Sharing everything with family and friends
- Youtube – Video
- LinkedIn – Networking to business people
- Twitter – Short message and link sharing
- Flickr – Image community
- Tumblr – Media sharing and mini-blogging
- Google+ – Facebook without friends
- MySpace – Music and gossip
- StumbleUpon – Discovery/browsing of popular sites
- Delicious – Bookmarks and curated lists of links
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:
- Top Social Media Sites by Vladimir Prelovac
- Categorized List of Social Media and Social Networking Websites | Traffikd
- Resource List: 40+ Sites For Writers | Social Media Trader
- 48 Social News Websites You Can Use
- Social Bookmarking Sites for All Occasions – SEOlogs.com
- 125 Social Bookmarking Sites : Importance of User Generated Tags, Votes and Links
- 83 Social News Sites – Categorized By Niche | Squareoak Blog
- 67 Foreign Language Social Bookmarking Sites Revealed
- 19 Great Music Recommendation Sources
- 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: January 6th, 2012.
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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..
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.
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?
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
Oh the irony of another list of lists. Thanks for putting it together. Bookmarked!
Thanks for the list Tad!
I think Maki’s list is the best one as it contains only active sites.
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.
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A list of lists? Alright, I am gonna bookmark the bookmarks :)
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