Best Social Networking Websites for Students
One of my graduate projects includes analyzing online social networking websites.
Here are some popular social networking sites for students that I found this weekend:
AlumWire
AlumWire is an interactive site for college students and alumni to network for job opportunities.
B4Class
Members enjoy free use of all site services and features, including detailed online profiles, photos, group chat, one-to-one video chat, onsite email, event planning and detailed member searches.
BuddyUniversity.com
Use BuddyU to keep up with your friends, upload photos, videos, music and meet others from around the country. Only students with an .edu email can join BuddyU.
Campusbug
A student social networking website to make friends, browse profiles, ask questions, and get advice from other students.
Classmates.com
One of the oldest social communities for students.
CollegeMedium.com
A student version of Craigslist - where students can buy, sell and share information.
College Tonight
College Tonight is a social networking place for college students, graduate students and alumni,. This site promotes social interactivity.
CollegeClassifieds.com
This is a cragslist for college students.
Facebook.com
Yeah, you already know about it - but I have to add it here.
FriendsUnited.com
Social networking sites for students in the United Kingdom
Graduates.com
A social networking site helping graduates to stay connected.
iHipo
A place for college students and business professionals looking for networking opportunities. They have a nifty internship and job search.
LibraryThing.com
LibraryThing is a website that allows students to catalog their books online. You can access this online catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing connects people with the same books, and comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth.
Pazap.com
A student trading site for buying and selling on-campus books with other students. You can even cell your phones through your cellphone with this service.
Quizilla
Quizilla is a social network for young teens who share quizzes, stories, journals, and polls.
RateMyProfessor.com
RateMyProfessor connects students together, and also allows students to rate and talk about the professors they’ve taken. They even have a Facebook app that you can add to your profile.
Scholar.com
Scholar.com is a social bookmarking website for students. You need to have a .edu email address, and your school’s blackboard system must be linked with Scholar.com.
Socialbib
Book swapping network between students.
Student.com
Student.com is an online community for college students, high school students and teens. Ages 18 to 24.
Studentbid.com
StudentBid.com is a social networking site mixed with an online auction. Studentbid is currently serving seven schools in the Boston area (Harvard, MIT, BU, BC, Tufts, Emerson, and Northeastern) and requires a valid .edu email address from a supported college to ensure out network’s safety.
StudentFace.com
A nifty social networking site for students in Australia. Members can share videos and photos.
Uloop.com
Uloop allows students to trade textbooks, promote community events and do host of other activities.
I’m probably missing a bunch, so please comment and let me know of others that you think should get added.
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February 4th, 2008 at 6:23 am
Have u try the online bookstore Cocomartini
http://www.cocomartini.com/
I get all my textbooks for this semester from this bookstore. All are brand new textbooks and half price discount textbooks.
Good luck and wish some help.
hehe ^_^
February 4th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Have you considered Scholar360? It’s an LMS (like Blackboard, Desire2Learn, etc.) but with a unique twist - it was a secure social network FIRST. It combines all the academic features of an LMS with secure social networking features that students and faculty seem to love.
February 4th, 2008 at 7:43 am
It’s interesting to me that MySpace isn’t included in the list. A couple of years ago…it would have been included. Most reports would say that MySpace is still the #1 overall social networking site. But Facebook is starting to gain more momentum, especially since it opened itself up to third party apps. I think MySpace is trying to play a little catch-up in that area.
Thanks for putting this list out there.
February 6th, 2008 at 11:43 am
mike, this is a great list — think people tend to focus on the top three or four, without thinking there are others that could better fit their niche. great start to the project!
February 13th, 2008 at 8:06 am
I know a new one: http://www.yoopyou.com
This is a young site, but I think it’s worth to join now, because Yoopyou will notify you automatically if you are looking for someone and he/she create an account later.
A short briefing:
Yoopyou is a social community where you can find friends, classmates, colleagues, acquaintances, ex-girlfriends or boyfriends or activity partners with the same field of interests you haven’t found on other community websites. In case you do not find them here, Yoopyou will automatically send you a message is they join later. You can browse among events and programs like on Facebook. With a properly uploaded profile and resume you can show yourself to the world, increasing your opportunity for a better job. You can highlight your profile so that others could recognise you easily. You can write your own blog to gather like-minded people around you.
Have a good time!
August 4th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
With regards to the Facebook applications, it’s worth noting that the Files application is also powered by boxnet yet just gives you access to your normal boxnet account. None of that silly 20mb for every friend, just access to upload and view/download everything in your 1gb of free storage.