Popular social networking sites around the world

by Scott McAndrew on February 17, 2008

In the past ten days I’ve been asked three times what social networking sites were in favor outside the United States.  I had an idea of what sites were popular for a few countries, but turned to the Internet to find out more over the weekend.  Some I’d heard of, some I hadn’t.

Below I’ve provided the top fifteen countries worldwide by the number of Internet users in that country.  Beside the country name is the top social networking site as reported by Alexa.com.

  1. United States – MySpace
  2. China – 51
  3. Japan – Mixi
  4. Germany – Studiverzeichnis
  5. India – Orkut
  6. Brazil – Orkut
  7. United Kingdom – Facebook
  8. South Korea – Cyworld
  9. France – Skyrock
  10. Italy – MySpace
  11. Russia – LiveJournal
  12. Mexico – Hi5
  13. Canada – Facebook
  14. Indonesia – Friendster
  15. Spain – Fotolog
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