Many Indian Social Networking Sites came into existence as early as the giant Social Networks were just being planned but none could top the list. Yet there are some Indian Social Networking Sites today which are trying to carve their names among the giants. In this post I have listed 7 Indian Social Networking Sites built mainly to cater to the people in India. In the days of Facebook and Twitter, you might think that the Indian Social Networking Sites do not get much traffic, but this is not the case. Some of the sites here are ranked high and get millions of hits in a month.
How I short-listed these sites:
First I listed down all the sites. Then I thoroughly checked if they are real Indian Sites. Some sites are launched under the “.in” domain but are not Indian or have a major user-based from another country. Then I checked for their pagerank. Then I checked for the Global and Indian Alexa rankings and rejected those sites which are very low in rankings. At last I checked whether the selected sites are safe for a user on the website onlinelinkscan.com as many sites contain viruses and Trojans and very dangerous for browsing. The final list is before you.
bharatstudent
Homepage URL: http://www.bharatstudent.com
Google Pagerank: 4
Alexa Rank (India): 354
Alexa Rank (Global): 4,097
A Social Networking Site for young Indians living anywhere in the world. A really nice place to hang around. You can join bharatstudent directly or through Facebook. I found a nice section here called “Facebook Updates”. You don’t need to check your Facebook account for updates every now and then. You can check them directly from your bharatstudent profile. So you do not lose track of what is happening on Facebook. There are a lot of good features on bharatstudents and the one which I really liked is the “G7 Connect”. This feature allows you to make free calls worldwide from PC to PC and from PC to Land Line/Mobile using credits earned at bharatstudent.com.
itimes
Homepage URL: http://www.itimes.com
Google Pagerank: 6
Alexa Rank (India): 392
Alexa Rank (Global): 5,243
Developed by the Times of India group, itimes is a leading Social Networking Site in India. It is also popular in other countries. Here you can find your friends from many sites like Facebook, Yahoo, Gmail etc. You can start a blog as well and can post articles of your choice. Many bollywood celebrities and other prominent persons enjoy blogging on itimes.
indyarocks
Homepage URL: http://www.indyarocks.com
Google Pagerank: 4
Alexa Rank (India): 1,033
Alexa Rank (Global): 10,649
Like any other Social Networking Site, indyarocks provides you with the opportunity to connect to your friends. You can send SMS to anyone in India from indyarocks. It is said that you can get your Google Adsense account approved much quickly through indiarocks. I never tried this but you can do so.
fropper
Homepage URL: http://www.fropper.com
Google Pagerank: 4
Alexa Rank (India): 1,115
Alexa Rank (Global): 16,493
An Indian Social Networking Site for chatting with friends as well as dating. Here your profile is called “My Zone” and posting an update is called posting “Shout-Outs”. The dating part is separated under the section “Relationships “.
myindospace
Homepage URL: http://www.myindospace.com
Google Pagerank: 3
Alexa Rank (India): 20,027
Alexa Rank (Global): 112,817
This site is ranked quite high but I was unable to create an account. They always showed me a warning message which read “Please don’t try to upload sexually explicit material, your attempts of uploading this kind of material is being tracked. If you persist same, your MyIndoSpace account will be deleted”. God knows what they track and how. Try creating an account yourself as I would not be able to tell you what lies inside myindospace.
chillx
Homepage URL: http://www.chillx.com
Google Pagerank: 3
Alexa Rank (India): 83,201
Alexa Rank (Global): 411,634
ChillX is an Indian Social Networking Site registered by Zap Strategy Limited, New Zealand. It has a list of its Team Members on the site. They are a 4 member team, Tikiri, Zuricka, Neil and Nirmal. On the site I also found the trending stories known as “ChillX Buzz” very interesting.
yaari
Homepage URL: http://yaari.info
Alexa Rank (India): 110,436
Alexa Rank (Global): 1,972,005
With an exact look of Facebook, yaari is bound to get anyone’s attention. The inside of it is also similar to Facebook. I would say yaari is very nicely built and offers a better user experience. Though ranked at the bottom, its rank will soon be increased once people starts liking it.
There are other highly ranked Indian sites built solely for Social Gaming, Social Blogging, Social Video Streaming and Social Dating. I have not listed such sites here as I believe they do not fulfill the criteria of a dedicated Social Network. I will obviously write about them in my upcoming posts. For a list of the top 100 Indian websites check
List of the top 100 Indian websites
Nice collection of sites.
Hey, Nice Collection. I would like to suggest one more Indian Social Network,
Wallpost
Page Rank: 2
Alexa Rank(India): 9,185
Alexa Rank(Global):63,299
Wallpost, a site with the blend of social networking & photo sharing where thousands of people brought together for all purpose of sharing ideas, views, opinions. Especially, it is more private & secure social network, here all the permissions given to user’s for save their data from out sider’s.
I really impressed with the features of wallpost, may be useful to some others like as me.
Glad that you suggested a site. I will check the site and if it is good enough, I will add it to the above list.
awesome collection my friend.
thanks for this useful info about new site .good job keep it up .I would like to suggest one more Indian Social Network famehere.com, on famehere everyone can get a chance for show talents and get fame .must try !!