Social networking sites are a good way to beat loneliness. These networks provide a wide-range of benefits from improved communication skills to establish better relationship with friends, business partners, clients and customers. Distance is no longer barrier here; you can communicate with your dear one without thinking of billing. In other words it is a fast means of communication. Before going into the benefits of social networking it is essential to know about the top ranked social networking sites.

With more than a hundred websites, it is a very daunting task to choose the best networking sites. One has to see various features to be a member of these sites such as the site security features, the network applications and how friendly the user interface is. Here are some well know sites that promise to give better service.

Facebook: It is one of the most popular social networking sites and has more than 400 million active users across the world. The age limit to get membership of the site is at least 13-year-old. This popular site provides a wide range of services such instant messaging, sharing pictures, upload videos, live audio chat and so on.

MySpace: The site is used greatly by American people. A user can browse MySpace without registration. Usually, people love to use this site for forums and a wide range of applications.

Hi5: It is popular among youths. Apart from chatting with friends, the popular site offers to play online games and listen to music. Recently, the networking site is developed as a social gaming website.

Orkut: The Google Inc social networking site is popular in Asia and South America. It has more than a 100 million users in the world on which around 70% users are from India and Brazil together.

These networking sites are wonderful platform to keep your thoughts in front of numbers of common as well as big personalities.