How To Start Your Own Social Networking Site

Posted on 24 August 2008 by Tom

Your Elgg ProfileForget MySpace, Why not just create your own social network for you and your mates? Well Elgg is the simple way to do this. You can simply install it on your server if you meet all the requirements which quite frankly every proper host should have. Elgg pretty much has most features of your usual SN (Social Network). It has your own users profile, dashboard, activity feed, user preferences, admin tools, blogging, forums, file repository and social bookmarking. I personally haven’t installed it yet but by the looks of the screenshots (Bellow) it looks pretty fantastic and if you have a web server of your own why not? Have your own network of your friends or maybe even try and take over the SN world with your new network! Here’s some screenies:

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Tom is a freelance web design and graphic artist. He also is a big time blogger and tech lover. He was the original founder of Technoblast back in 2008 and still blogs regularly, Keeping the site in tip top shape. Visit his website at http://tom-webber.co.uk

1 Comments For This Post

  1. Rex HellewellNo Gravatar Says:

    I disagree i have ued this software it’s clumsy and over reated with a good site i would use other open sourse systems what have been out way longer over this one.

    Before the project split i would of said
    phpIzably would be a good one but since the
    site slpit it became erm not so good.

    and you make out that this one is the only one and its not maybe rethinging the all SN
    there are too many out there now something new needs to be set up.

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