Buzznet - Users can create communities and share blogs and photographs.
Communities.com - Provides chat rooms, communities, forums, instant messaging, detailed photo profiles, photo galleries, and photo ratings. Search members by age, sex, location, and interests.
The Cult - A worldwide organization of mostly high school and college students - a unique collection of ideas and services.
Dacity.com - Provides members a free message board on many subjects, free chat services, free homepages and free online games.
Facemeet: - Worldwide chatrooms, swap photos, rate and message each other. Free sign up and membership.
Flamingcube - Offer image gallery hosting, webmail, albums, polls, and forums.
Flork - Worldwide community of interesting people. Find new friends easily by 'florking around.'
Foundmyself - An online art community with numerous features, including personal art galleries, forums, contests, the ability to sell art commission free and more. The site is based on the honor system, and is 100% free.
Habbo - Online community for teens and roleplaying. [Shockwave required]
The Lost Diner - Focused on the abandoned, forgotten, mysterious, and unexplained. Has forums, chat rooms, and message board. Share stories, photos, maps, conversation, links, and ideas.
Meefo.com - Meefo is a place where anyone is accepted. Features news, reviews, gallery, chat and random banter.
NowTalking - Read and write diaries, send mail to other members, and exchange messages in guestbooks.
OpenGaia - Browse through profiles, personals, shared interests, experiences and ideas, polls, creations, job search. Participate, share, meet people.
The Pork - Members can access chat rooms, discussion boards, personals, and instant messaging.
Rogues Tavern Online Community - Online community of international rogues, scoundrels and rascals. Offering chat, message board, graffiti and a scrapbook.
Sciforums - Forum discussions cover world events, science, religion, philosophy, and technology.
Spammers Paradise - General discussion. Has forum, store, calendar, and member directory.
The Spoke - Microsoft's digital lifestyle club for students from around the world, with message boards, hubs, blogs and 10 MB of upload space for members.
Talk City - Participate in discussions about relationships, hobbies, business, technology, health and other topics. Socialize with friends, or start your own chat group.
Wanderlist - User-contributed, user-evaluated lists of notes including lots of links.
Whyville - A virtual 3-D world for curious minds where you can own land, build your own house, play simulation games, win prizes, chat, and help the community grow.
WireClub - Personal and group blogs tied in with many other social networking features. Geared to meeting people through shared interests. Free site.
YABA - Chat room based social networking community.
YouThink.com - Ask questions, and discuss jokes, movies and trivia.
BusinessWeek: Internet Communities - Surfers are losing interest on website content and want now to settle in online communities. (May 5, 1997)