What social networks exist

In the world there are more than 20 major social networks. In 13 of them registered more than 100 million users. In these services people create your own page, add friends, meet new people, chat, watch videos and listen to music. In recent times social networking has become very popular not only among youth but also adults.

Popular global social network created in the United States, China, England and Russia. In Japan and Belarus also has its own social network, common in their country.

The most popular network

The most popular and numerous server on the right is Facebook. It was almost half a billion accounts. Active participants over a billion, are users from many countries. The service is very convenient, in addition to English it supports the official language in almost all countries where it is widely distributed. For example, a multi-language Facebook well, many of the features of the language are considered, they are a pleasure to use. Facebook works for 10 years in February 2014, he celebrates his anniversary.

A year after launch Facebook have launched a new site: Youtube, which is one of the famous video hosting sites. One day on the website being viewed more than 4 billion clips, registered users more than a billion.

The popular social network of bloggers is called Tumblr, despite its American origin, Russified it quite well. The number of users - 140 million

The discoverers

The world's first was opened two social networks: QQ in China, and LinkedIn in the US, it happened in 2003. QQ - service for messaging like ICQ, only it is created in a social network. Users worldwide more than 300 million, more than half of them Chinese.

But the first American social network LinkedIn was created for business. Here published vacancy announcements, the owners and managers of the companies were looking for partners and studied competitors. Now the network uses more than 200 million people from all corners of the Earth.

English is the most popular social network - Facebook. It was about 200 million accounts.

Actively developing

The young and dynamic network - Google+. It was created by Google's guidelines in 2011. In just two years the number of accounts reached 500 million Although we know why, all mailbox users, Google services automatically receive their own account on the social network. The number of active users - 250 million, that is two times less.

Russian services

The most popular social networks of Russia was opened in 2006. These services are called "Vkontakte" and "Odnoklassniki". If the first network designed for young people, the second is designed for older generation. "Vkontakte" more than 80 million active accounts, over 300 million page views every day. "Classmates" was more than 200 million people, of whom about 150 million active Slightly less users in the social network Mail.ru - "My world".

The number of users in Russia increasing in recent years, a popular American website - Twitter. Now the number of "tweeting" is 200 million Users of the site just over half a billion.