# Are there really this many social media websites? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 5, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-really-this-many-social-media-websites/633761 "2012-09-05T17:26:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-really-this-many-social-media-websites/633761/1 "2012-09-05T17:26:13Z")
I was browsing on a real estate site, and clicked on the Browse & Share link, and was surprised to find scores of social media websites to choose from. Usually, there are a dozen or so well known names, but most of these I have never heard of: > [@](#): > > 100zakladok 2linkme 2 Tag A97abi Adfty Adifni Lifestream Amazon Amen Me! AOL Mail Armenix Arto Aviary Capture Azadegi Baang Baidu Beat100 Bebo Bentio BiggerPockets Bit.ly BizSugar Bland takkinn Blinklist Blip Blogger Bloggy Blogkeen Blogmarks Blogtrottr Blurpalicious Bobrdobr BO.LT BonzoBox Bookmarky.cz Bookmerken Bordom [Box.net](http://Box.net) Brainify Bryderi.se BuddyMarks Buffer Buzzzy Camyoo CardThis Care2 Chiq Chime Cirip CiteULike ClassicalPlace CleanPrint clipDO Cndig [Colivia.de](http://Colivia.de) Connotea cOOtopia COSMiQ [Curate.us](http://Curate.us) Delicious DesignBump DigaCultura Digg Diggita Digo DigThisHost Digzign Diigo Dipdive Dhois Lookup DoMelhor Dosti DotNetKicks .netShoutout Douban Draugiem.lv Drimio Dropjack Dzone Edelight EFactor eKudos elefanta.pl Email Embarkons euCliquei Evernote extraplay EzySpot Fabulously40 Facebook Fark Farkinda Fashiolista FAVable Faves favlog Favoriten Favorites Favoritus Flaker Floss.pro Folkd Formspring Fresqui FriendFeed funP fwisp Gabbr Gamekicker GiveALink GlobalGrind Healthimize Gmail Godudu Good Noows Google Google+ Translate Go.vn GreaterDebater [Grono.net](http://Grono.net) Haber.gen.tr Hacker News Hadash Hot Hatena Hedgehogs HelloTxt storious Hot Bookmark Hotklix Hotmail Hyves Identi.ca ihavegot Index4 Indexor Informazione Instapaper InvestorLinks iOrbix iSociety iWiW Jamespot Jappy Ticker JoliPrint Jolly Jumptags Jaboodle Kaevur Kaixin Repaste Ketnooi Kindle It Kipup Kledy Kommenting La tafanera Librerio Copy Link LinkedIn Link Ninja Links Gutter LinkShares Linkuj.cz Messenger LiveJournal LockerBlogger Logger24 Email App Markme Mashbord meinVZ Mekusharim Memonic [Memori.ru](http://Memori.ru) Mendeley Menéame Mindbodygreen Mister Wong [Moemesto.ru](http://Moemesto.ru) Moikrug mototagz mRcNEtwORK Multiply myAOL MyHayastan Mylinkvault [Mail.ru](http://Mail.ru) Myspace N4G Nasza-klasa NetLog Netvibes Netvouz NewsMeBack NewsTrust Newsvine Nujij Odnoklassniki OKNOtizie Oneview Orkut Oyyla Packg Pafnet PDFmyURL PDF Online PhoneFavs Ping.fm Pinterest Planypus Plaxo Plurk Pochval PoliticNote Posteezy Posterous Prati.ba Print PrintFriendly Pusha QRF.in [QRSrc.com](http://QRSrc.com) Quantcast Qzone Write Your Rep Read It Later Reddit Rediff MyPage RedKum ResearchGate RideFix Scoop.at Scoop.it Sekoman Select2Gether Sharer Shaveh She Told Me Sina Weibo Skyrock Blog SMI BookmarkingNet SodaHead Sonico Speedtile Sphinn SpinSnap springpad Squidoo Startaid Startlap StoryFollower studiVZ Stuffpit StumbleUpon Stumpedia FabDesign Surfingbird Svejo Symbaloo TaazaShare Tagza Tarpipe Communicate FreeDictionary The Web Blend Thinkfinity ThisNext Throwpile to.ly TopSiteler Transferr Tuenti Tulinq Tumblr Tvinx TweetMeme Twitter TwitThis Typepad Upnews.it Urlaubswerk URLCapt Viadeo Virb VisitezMonSite VKontakte vKruguDruzei VOX Social VybraliSME Vyoom HTML Validator Webnews WebShare Windy Citizen WireFan WordPress Worio Wykop Xanga XING Y! Bookmarks Y! Mail Yammer Yardbarker Yemle Yigg Spreadly Yoolink Yorumcuyum Youblr Youbookmarks YouMob Yuuby [Zakladok.net](http://Zakladok.net) ZicZac ZingMe No, some of those are not strictly social media sites, like Amazon; but i assume there is a social media forum on Amazon where the link gets shared, so I am including sites like that as social media. When did this happen? Are these all current, or are most of them defunct already? Do we need this many social media sites? Do they REALLY think they are going to compete with Facebook and Twitter? Few of them could ever hope to be profitable, and must be black holes for investors. Yet someone is ponying up the capital to try to be the next Facebook. I am just amazed that in these economic times, there is still enough venture capital or other seed money to throw after dubious websites. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-really-this-many-social-media-websites/633761/2 "2012-09-05T18:59:10Z")
Not all of those are social media sites. Bit.ly is a URL shortening site. Some of those are email sites (Google, Hotmail, Yahoo). Some of the others look like bookmark sites - Diigo is one, I believe. Some of them are different sorts of social media: Tumblr, Livejournal, and Wordpress are blogging sites Digg and Reddit are news aggregates (sort of?) Pinterest is for sharing hobbies and interests That seems like an incredibly ridiculous list and I can’t see any good reason for having ALL of them, but they’re not all just Facebook clones.