Social Networks

MySpace is a popular site with a large online community blog that offers services, personal profiles, search for friends, groups, photos, music and video.

It is one of the world's most popular sites.

MySpace Facts

* Founded: August 2003.

* Headquarters: Beverly Hills, California (USA)

* Fox Interactive Media owns MySpace since July 2005 (purchased for $ 580 million).

* It has about 300 employees.

* More than 200 million accounts (September 7, 2007), with 230,000 new accounts per day.

* Creators: Thomas Anderson and Christopher DeWolfe.

* Website: www.myspace.com

Facebook is a website of the network type. Initially it was exclusively for college students, but in September 2006 has been extended to anyone with email.

Facebook is one of the most visited websites in the world.

The Facebook network growth was very strong between 2008 and 2009. In January 2009, had 150 million users, 175 million in February and in April exceeded 200 million.

Facebook Facts

* Release Date: February 4, 2004.
* Headquarters: Palo Alto, California (USA)
* He has more than 200 million users (April 2009)
* He has more than 700 employees (November 2008).
* Website: www.facebook.com

Bebo is a social networking website launched in July 2005. It is owned by Criterion Capital Partners. From March 2008 to June 2010 it was owned by AOL Inc.

The website's name is an acronym for Blog Early, Blog Often. Users receive a personal profile page where they can post blogs, photographs, music, videos and questionnaires to which other users may answer. Additionally, users may add others as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.

Bebo was founded by Michael Birch and his wife Xochi Birch in January 2005 at their home inSan Francisco.

It was acquired by AOL on March 13, 2008 for $850 million. In April 2010, AOL announced it was planning to sell or shut down Bebo, with the sale being completed on June 17, 2010 to Criterion Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum. It has been reported that the sale raised less than $10 million.

Orkut is a social networking website that is owned and operated by Google Inc.^[2] The service is designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. The website is named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. Although Orkut is less popular in the United States than competitors Facebook and MySpace, it is one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil. As of April 2010, 48.0% of Orkut's users are from Brazil, followed by India with 39.2% and United States with 2.2%.

Originally hosted in California, in August 2008 Google announced that Orkut would be fully managed and operated in Brazil, by Google Brazil, in the city of Belo Horizonte. This was decided due to the large Brazilian user base and growth of legal issues.

As of October 2010, Alexa traffic ranked Orkut 81st in the world; the website currently has more than 100 million active users worldwide. Anyone 18 years old or older can join Orkut