VK (social Network)

VK (social Network)

VK (Originally VKontakte, Russian: ВКонтакте, literally "in contact") is the biggest social network service in Europe, it is available in several languages but popular particularly among Russian-speaking users around the world, especially in Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Belarus, and Israel. Like other social networks, VK allows users to message contacts publicly or privately, create groups, public pages and events, share and tag images, audio and video, and play browser-based games.

As of December 2012, VK has at least 195 million accounts. VK is ranked 25 in Alexa's global Top 500 sites and is the second most visited website in Russia. In December 2012 VK had an average of 43 million daily users.

"В Контакте" (VKontákte) translates to English as "InContact" or "InTouch".