Social Networking In Our Lives - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)

(NAPSI)With the increasing popularity of social networking, many are finding it more and more important to find their ideal online meeting places. While Facebook is the largest social network, and great for keeping yourself connected with your existing friends, many are looking for ways to meet new and interesting people all around the world. For that, you may want to check out a leader in "social discovery."

Where To Go

One such site is Tagged; it has over 100 million people already registered in over 200 countries and can help you find your special someone or a bunch of new friends who share your interests. It makes it easy to meet new people through social games, friend suggestions, browsing profiles, group interests and much more.

What To Do

Common interests are a foundation for many friendships, so you can use the site Tagged to meet people who have interests similar to yours. You can do so by looking for pages on the site that have people who have joined with that interest. People from all over the world use the site, so there's almost bound to be someone out there who cares about the same things you do.

Engaging social games can be the secret sauce when it comes to social discovery.

Another way to find new friends is through connections to your current ones. You may be able to find new people whom your friends are friends with, simply with a click of a button.

While friendship, dating and flirting can all be a part of this new approach to social networking, there's much more to it. For instance, engaging social games can also be the secret sauce when it comes to social discovery. The popular Pets game, for example, garners over 5 million unique interactions a day. If you are looking for a romantic connection, a recent survey found 38 percent of respondents made a romantic connection through a Tagged social game.

One of the other favorite features of the Tagged site is a news feed with a difference. The "What's New" feed cleverly lets you choose which member updates you see by filtering them according to location, gender and age. This makes finding new friends to meet around the block or around the world easy, while still maintaining tight privacy controls by following your account's privacy settings.

When On the Go

For fun and friendship when you're far away from home, the site Tagged has apps for the Android, iPhone and BlackBerry, and it recently launched a new mobile website for all other handsets.

Learn More

For more information about finding new friends in the social networking space, visit www.tagged.com.