Several web workers really matters more on social networking idea. It necessary means that they don’t matter much on the ranked of a certain popular sites on the networking planet as long as internet users can connect with their potential contacts and customers, colleagues, to obtain breaking news, social media and links chatter or getting a significant information about the new and latest happening in social media circles. Recently in the year 2009, the most relevant and popular social media platforms and networks for most web workers are LinkedIn, Facebook, FriendFeed and Twitter. Granted, that there are lots of social media sites to choose for more interesting and valuable networking but this four web sites stand for being the most popular which we need to know its significance.

Facebook

Facebook recently turned into 5 years old and hit conventional status for some time back with its surprising development in this year 2009 has continued. Facebook is totally recognize as one of the primary web site tools for most web workers in connecting colleagues and friends, sharing an information and idea, social networking gizmos and games.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn sits in a demand position to dominate most professional networking area online. The reason why LinkedIn stands among the other social networks is just because there is a greater barrier to connect with people on LinkedIn by knowing first the email account of the person before to connect.

Twitter

Twitter is a 2008 growing social media star and widely attained in 2009 mainstream status. Twitter is one of the most significant areas to be online which is amazingly flexible and simple that can be valuable for almost networking idea from a live event reporting in keeping touch simply with colleagues and friends.

FriendFeed

FriendFeed is the great place online to interact and consume information with most smart people. It is a cheerful mix of aggregator content, social networks and microbloggings.

The ranked of social media sites will only revolve on several web users knowing the value and importance of each media sites.

Social media networking is definitely growing by the number of sites. Lately, Twitter is now getting more number of members’. Facebook also climb to the top social network above Myspace. Facebook is still the lead of the fast growing sites among the other social media sites. This year however provides a number of sites of social networking and offers another trend different to the other sites.

Recent Sites with Outstanding Developments

• Ning – it was announced recently with social networks for over one million that have been formed using the Ning service. It is recently the 2nd of the fastest increasing social networking property.

• Bebo- it is doing with social thing that is significant mostly for being great overseas. It is also a networking site that grown and create in the past year for about 148 percent and recently reaches in the US for over than 6.1 million people.

• LinkedIn – continue to become one of the fastest increasing social sites that double its percentage size in the last year which reaches for about 15.8 million people joined in the United States. Among the social media sites, LinkedIn total sized ranked to the 3rd sites over Myspace and Facebook.This site provides connections to people who are searching for work and employer who also looking for a competitive employee. It offers wide array of work and company connections to people.

• Twitter – it is now increasing for about 2,565 percent at a mind-boggling that reached its total sized that joined in the United States for over than 13 million people. This will surely continue to puff up for most people find it more interesting and vigilant like massive mainstream media events such as CNN versus Ashton Kutcher.

In the next year, there are still many of the social media sites that will emerge and going forward for growth rate of the total size.

On 7th December 2005, thanks to a Mr Ricardo Galli, a new Web 2.0 concept arrived in Spain – Menéame.  Similar to the American Digg, the site works thanks to Internet users’ votes for articles which they find interesting, curious or fun.  Or so is the idea…

The site is dogged by claims of bias, unfair voting and fake results.  Said unreliability has come about because of the tendencies of some users to mass vote articles based on their subject or author, rather than because of the quality of the pieces themselves.  Another problem faced by Menéame is the large and powerful groups being formed within the website.  The members of these groups will vote other group members’ articles and nothing else, consequently meaning that their news pieces are always guaranteed a good number of votes, whether they are vote-worthy or not.  Another unfortunate trend is how people are beginning to mass vote articles negatively, when the articles are of a certain theme – an example being what happens to articles containing information about the iPhone.  These articles attract many negative votes because of particular groups of people who are angry at the excess of news linked to the revolutionary Apple.

Menéame is actively putting a stop to such practices however, by docking the Karma – Menéame’s currency of choice – of members who appear to indulge in group voting and persecuting those who mass vote for particular articles and hence cheat their way to the top.  By recording user history, Menéame now knows if a user is voting only for particular authors or particular themes.  By applying stricter rules, Menéame should become more like Digg, where good articles go up and bad articles go down.

In spite of its teething problems, the website continues to grow strongly, attracting votes from big names such as Martín Varsavsky.  The pressing Hispanic-Argentine businessman and founder of Fon and Jazztel took capital in both 2006 and 2007 – a vote of confidence which shows that, especially when its problems are overcome, this is a website which will continue to rise to the top.

It had been known that social media serve as the core source of excellent opportunities for business purposes such as advertising their products, special events and services. As well, social media site are use for acknowledging and featuring some employees in the company. Although, there are several social media sites that have existed nowadays but there are only six social media sites that been considered as general social media sites. These general social media site are the following:

1.)Wikipedia-had been defined as a multilingual web based encyclopedia which offers free content from all viewers around the globe. The article of this Wikipedia give some informational topic that the user are searching on and aside of that also, Wikipedia also provides links that contains some additional information about the site. This Wikipedia had been written collaboratively by the different volunteers from around the globe. As a result, it attracts several visitors around the globe which had been noted as about 684 millions of visitors.

2.) Newsvine-is defined a community powered news social media website that have drawn news original update from its users and syndicated content from mainstream sources. As well, the users were allowed to write articles, discuss new items, and be able to send links to external content submitted by the users and the professional writers or journalist. The newsvine is not a company but acts a social news venue that help the community to participate and be updated recent issues or news that been happening. The newsvine staff continually works out in order to keep this social network operating.

3.) 43 things-is social media networking site that been designed for tagging rather for explicit interpersonal links. It had been noted that users of this accounts list numbers of goals and then parsed by a lexer and connected to other goals that are content similar goals or ideas. This concept was been known as folksonomy.

4.) Wetpaint-is free wiki hosting services. It had been noted that all wiki URLs are only sub-domain of wetpaint.com. In which, this site target the general internet users who really wants to collaborate virtually with the use of easy virtual interactive features.

5.) Frappr-is been defined as Web 2.0 mashup application which maps the online communities for touring purposes.

6.) Yahoo answers-had been considered a community driven knowledge market website. In which, the community members are allowed to participate by formulating some question in order to be answered by the other members or vice versa.