Free interest-group site hosting from Microsoft Network. Offers many features; customizable by the group website owner.

Hosts free communities for game-related topics.

Participate in discussions about relationships, hobbies, business, technology, health and other topics. Socialize with friends, or start your own chat group.

Ask questions, and discuss jokes, movies and trivia.

Current incarnation of Delphi, which began in 1983. Home to thousands of member-managed communities, covering an enormously wide range of interests.

Provides free news, profiles, e-mail, homepage, chat, and forums.

Provides chat rooms, communities, forums, instant messaging, detailed photo profiles, photo galleries, and photo ratings. Search members by age, sex, location, and interests.

Provides any group of people with the ability to establish a private and interactive online community.

Worldwide community of interesting people. Find new friends easily by `florking around.`

Provides topical hosting services for your community homepage, community building tools (like chat, board and discussion lists) and member tools (like member websites, webmail and instant messaging).

A list of the largest message boards and forums on the web.

User-contributed, user-evaluated lists of notes including lots of links.

Members can access chat rooms, discussion boards, personals, and instant messaging.

Promotes inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, and works for the intellectual and social achievement of society.

Microsoft`s digital lifestyle club for students from around the world, with message boards, hubs, blogs and 10 MB of upload space for members.

Humorous articles and discussions on the daily basis.

A survey site attempting to find the geographic location of visitors to it.

Online community known for engaging conversation and intelligent debate. Features more than 260 conferences ranging from technical and specific to abstract and surreal.

Meefo is a place where anyone is accepted. Features news, reviews, gallery, chat and random banter.

Provides free personal pages, email, forums, news, chat, instant messaging, games, promotions and online events. [Uses Flash]

Create your own online community or join one complete with free web hosting, free email, instant messenger and other website building tools.