With the embark of the cut throat competition and hunger for affluence, social relationships were on the point of gradual extinction, when suddenly the twist in the doomsday had the thunderous breakthrough with social networking emerging from its embryonic cocoon.

You find youngsters and business networking people hooking up to these for their own reasons. Virtually though, the connectivity has soared by simultaneously widening the dimensions of its existence and erasing out the need of face-to face once needed encounters.

Highlighting this Gen Now trend, ComScore, the statistical house has released the magic numbers that once again reveal the worldwide widespread of the dominating and addictive sites like Orkut, MySpace,Friendster, Tagged, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5. These virtual globetrotters have a fierce competitions among themselves too, apparent by the regular updates and improvements in their appeal, functioning and prevalence. Not a surprise, there is substantial growth visible in the bouncing mania of networking sites.

The expansion reveals a lot. MySpace has been able to attract increasing crowds in the age groups of 15 and older contributing to its whooping numbers. While Facebook.com has 52.2 million people partnering this race. With a 774 % rise, Tagged.com overrides the results of all with the adding volumes to its loyal visitors. One unique aspect of these networking sites is the “Cultural relevance” factor.

There are certain sites doing well in one specific region while doing not too good in others. It’s undeniably true that cross cultural barriers have been broken by these networking sites, yet it is not to the much expected levels. The take off of the results shows the dominance of Facebook and MySpace in various parts of North America while the European space is grabbed by Bebo and India by Orkut on the other hand.

Comparing to the earlier year’s results, there is a beam of hope to have a woven world altogether in near future with the burgeoning millions registering to these social networks. Let us have a look at the familiar faces of these sites now!

Facebook has shown a perceptible increase of 270 percent and hence knocking out one’s imagination. Recently in many cases of criminal violence conducted by networking sites, Facebook gathered respect for its technical provisions that protected one’s account from strangers.

MySpace on the other hand is clearly dealing with nascent magnitudes and exemplary usage with its visits mushrooming from 66.5 million to around 114 million. Both these sites have distinct high percentages in North America with satisfying usage in Europe, but quite less of it in other regions.

Orkut, with its 78 percent growth has become the virtual addiction of natives of Brazil and India. Though it’s somewhat restricted in Latin America and subsequent parts of Asia-Pacific, it continues to bag the enterprising laurel of being the most popular user base. Its downright innovations, techniques and additional management, confers its current fame, though at times it “ no donut for you” coupled with the bad, bad server punch line, literally frustrates the surfing.

Interestingly, Tagged and Hi5 have been summoned as the most “balanced” user based on the worldwide platform. Though “tagged” is still in its emerging stages, the shocking news is that, it showed paramount growth with 774 percent mind bowling figure. This San Francisco based networking site had its first mighty circulation around the globe in 2006, with frantic backing and consecutive membership. On the other hand, the situation of once proclaimed “rising star” HI5, is quite grim with just 56 percent of dismal growth though it’s still used in parts of America, Europe and Asia.

Friendster, with demarcated restriction to just Asia Pacific is mostly unheard, unseen and untracked in US. On the contrary, Bebo registered 172% growth due to its vast viewership in UK, Europe and North America.

Hence, these fascinating networking sites have remarkably ignited the missing sparks in relationships and enthralled the unprecedented boundaries of human imagination, with its enigmatic emergence in the engrossed and time bounded hectic life styles of people today.

There’s a distinct and pragmatic history getting created in the multitudinous communication perspectives of common man never letting him go out of place, time and action.