[Web4lib] Not Just Facebook: Niche Online Social Networks?

[McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]]

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While Bebo, Facebook, Bebo, hi5, MySpace, and Orkut, are among the better known general online social networks,
there is an ever-increasing number of online networks that have emerged for and within a wide variety of communities.

I am greatly interested in learning of Online Social Networks in These And/Or Other Communities

BTW: I Am Aware Of Many Other Communities With Online Social Networks  But Am Asking The Web Communities For Their Suggestions.

ACADEME AND EDUCATION

academici

Classroom 2.0

EduSpaces

OpenAcademic 

AFRICAN-AMERICANS

BlackPlanet

BOOMERS 

Boomj

Eons

Second Prime Time 

BUSINESS 

LinkedIn 

Ryze 

Spoke 

XING 

GAY/LESBIAN/TRANS-GENDER

OUTeverywhere

RELIGION

MeeJew

MyChurch 

Muslim Spaces

RESEARCHERS AND SCHOLARS

2collab 

Nature Network

Pronetos: The Social Network For Scholars

I am also interested in Major Web Sites That Have Compiled A Listing of Online Social Network Sites/Services As Well As Any/All Associated Literature.

BTW: I am aware of Social Networking Services Meta List made available on thesocialsoftwareweblog (but it's dated)

and of course List of Social Networking Websites from Wikipedia

And Recently Learned About SOCIAL NETWORKING GOD: 350+ Social Networking Sites

BTW-2: I am also aware of the Ning-based online social networks and Second Life 

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Thanks!

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

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