In the main most people are on facebook and twitter. Alot signed up to google+ probably more through hype than need how many of your friends or colleagues use google+ on a regular basis for interaction? Vic Gundotra Senior VP at Google indicated in a blog post in April 2012 that 170 million had upgraded to the new version.

In the uk most peoples introduction to soicial was probably friends reunited.

There are a myriad of others see social media for a list

I am quite shocked at the number that are out there, I am sure this list will grow; for the number of registered users it would be interesting to know how many of them are regularly active, though what is the definition of regularly active is it daily, weekly or longer.

There now appears to be a social group for different interests and various geographical based regions.

Facebook undoubtably has the largest online share but its precence is not the largest in the likes of China, Russia and Japan.

The two big player in China appear to be Sina Weibo (known as the chinese facebook) and Renren (twitter equivalent). Facebook apparently is locked by the “great firewall of china”. It may be too late for facebook to break into this market even if it was allowed to operate in china and operated using the censorship restrictions that china appears to enforce.

Having had a brief foray with bulletin boards whilst at uni and early use of the internet up until 2000 my first foray into social probably began with registering with friends reunited in about 2001.

I guess for most people this was the first glimpse of what was to become a way of life.

I never really embraced social friends reunited apart from linking up to my old secondary school and university. I guess 14 years after leaving school and 10 years after university shows how over time people you spent years of your life with are easily forgotten. Names of ex classmates brings glimmers of remembrance but I never felt the need to reengage with my past if there has been class reunions I have not been. Only rarely did I log back on and look for changes this was normally prompted by a mail from them.

My first real engagement with sharing on the web was posting pictures up to flickr for travel companions to view.

I joined myspace did not engage at all my profile probably still exists though I can’t remember the last time I logged on.

I followed the crowd in 2007 and joined facebook it seemed then that everyone was clambering to be given an invite to join similar to getting a gmail login and later google+

Again I have never really enagaged in the experience; I only post occasionally, have a very small friend list though don’t really keep in touch.

I joined twitter to see what it was all about; i view rather than tweet.

I am amazed at how people find time to keep their social accounts updated, seem to post every minute detail of their life for all to see probably without realising the consequences.