4 Specialized Social Networks You Should Join

By: Karan Goel | 11th March 2010

The time’s changing. The way we communicate is changing. We update our friends about our whereabouts, discuss what we had for dinner and post updates on events and cool articles we’ve read (feel free to share this one too).

Many of us think about Facebook, Flickr etc when we hear the work Social Network. how else can we use this amazing new phenomenon to our benefit? There are networks that specialize in certain genres. And here are 4 of them.

Blippy

Blippy is a fun and easy way to see and discuss the things people are buying. It works by posting purchases you’ve made to selected stores to their stream in a way that’s similar to Twitter, but with products. It can be surprisingly addictive to read what your friends and family are buying, or just browse the choices others have made.

Kiva

Want to join your friends and family and make a huge difference in someone’s life? That’s why Kiva was created. The idea is to use the power of community and social networking to help someone out of poverty by lending poor people all over the world enough money to start a business or improve their standard of living.

Virtual Tourist

With about 1 million members, Virtual Tourist is a great resource for those who love traveling and want to learn from and share experiences with fellow world explorers. It allows you to create your own travel map, shares images and activities and get a lot of information. They also have a very persuading way of ensuring you will add your personal pictures to the site. Their default profile picture is a sheep wearing a cap!!!

deviantART

The deviantART site is one of the largest art websites in the world with 100 million original works of art and over 12 million members from 190 countries. It’s a great way to expose your art, which can be paintings, crafts, digital art and even Manga, and also allows you to sell it on the deviantART Shop.

The web has given us thousands of ways to find those people. What specialized social networks do you belong to?