The latest issue of Website Magazine presents a top 50 list of social media resources, that is the most visited social web sites out there.

Increasingly, people use social media sites to find information online. Instead of using the regular search engines, which search huge indexes of all kind of info, it makes sense to go to YouTube to find videos and to LinkedIn to find business connections.

The list is based on web statistics gathered by Ranking.com.

1. YouTube (Video sharing)
2. MySpace (Social networking)
3. Facebook (Social networking)
4. Beebo (Video and social networking)
5. Black Planet (Black online community)
6. Tagged (Social networking)
7. Imeem (Social network for sharing music, video and photos)
8. Hi5 (Social networking)
9. Orkut (Social networking)
10. Digg (Sharing and discovering links)
11. LinkedIn (Professional networking)
12. Ning (Create your own social networking community)
13. Stumbleupon (Sharing and discovering links)
14. Friendster (Social networking)
15. Buzznet (Pop culture social networking)
16. Multiply (Media sharing)
17. Twitter (Microblogging)
18. Cyworld (Social networking)
19. Netlog (Blog based social networking)
20. Livejournal (Blog based social networking)

Below the top 20, we find a few fast climbers: Yelp, Tribenet and Zing.