A Review of Social Networking Sites

The largest database of Latvia's socially active group, moreover mostly with users' real names, surnames, dates of birth, location, real photos (not counting a few fake profiles) and opportunities for social discovery - photo album, diary, guest book, circle of friends, interests, etc. A portal that is constantly developing, delighting its users with ever new "toys" (even if you have to pay Ls0.35 for them).

Subjective rating:

Anyone you've ever met will never disappear completely :) - a kind of "address book." If you need to meet someone in person and they're in your friends list, you know you'll cross paths sooner or later. Also a useful reminder - not to miss someone's birthday or milestone in the daily rush of work. Favourite sections: "Travels," "Galleries," "Brain."

The forum is rubbish - not a single coherent discussion.

As far as I remember, this was the first portal to offer email and mobile text message sending from the internet - gaining its audience that way back in the day. The friends section came much later.

Subjective rating:

This portal seems to be favoured mainly by the Russian-speaking audience - probably also because of its brightness, colourfulness, the various skins and the candid photos (which are, for the most part, still original). Eyes dazzle from little hearts and coins that arrive as ratings for photos, tops and super-tops.

A showing-off portal - who has the hotter girl, fancier car, bigger yacht, bigger muscles, bigger boobs, etc.

An email service plus a dating page. Designed precisely for "casual" acquaintances, not for building a circle of friends and contacts. Profiles only with pseudonyms or nicknames; practically rarely a real photo - mostly images copied from the internet.

Subjective rating:

The right place to receive rapturous exclamations and compliments about your latest, most daring or most charming photo. Attention-seekers, step forward! :)

The impression - a hangout for lonely Turkish men and other foreigners, where phrases like "sweet," "sex," "nice lady," etc. are sufficient.

A portal that rolled along, rolled along, but never quite rolled to a wider audience.

Subjective rating:

Nostalgia. A place to meet former classmates or fellow students. No - more like an "autograph book" of the kind we used to fill in eagerly for one another in our youth.

It's not great that someone can register you without your consent. Audiences overlap - few people studied at only one institution. Some teachers register themselves among their former graduates rather than in their actual current class.