List of social networking websites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I would run out of storage space on my website if I kept track and commented on each of the social networking sites that are out there. Instead, I found a site on wikipedia that has a good listing of the top 60 that are out there. You may ask, "how do they know how many people are on their site?" That's easy, these numbers are published by the sites themselves to attract potential advertisers. One of the main reasons why these sites have become so popular is 2 fold. First, website are a loss to a business owner without traffic. To get traffic you need an audience. Make a site, put a social networking twist on it so that kids and teens can talk to people without you, the parent, knowing about it and bingo, traffice. Second, to make money off advertising you need to get traffic from search engines. To get this, you need unique content. How do you do that, easy, since the kids are adding comments and blogging, your site rises to the top of the google charts and advertisers are beating down your door.
