Have you ever started your own social networking community site?

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August 8, 2016, 12:49 pm

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Have you ever started your own social networking community site?

Hi all. Have you ever started your own social networking site and community? Whether something generic or a niche related social networking site/community?

Have you ever wanted to be the CEO of your own social media site like Facebook or Instagram, Twitter etc? Or have you ever started any broad or niche social network?

There are many social networking scripts out there you can use to start your own social networking site. Things like Oxwall, BuddyPress, JCow, phpFox, phpFusion, Dolphin, Elgg etc etc. Have you ever used any of these to start and run your own social network?

If so how is it going or is it still up and running?

Have you had any success with it?

Or is this sort of thing on your "things to try and do" list?

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Cristian

Now that you mention all of this. I do have an idea about a social network I think it can change everything! But I'm not yet ready to share it with the world.
Maybe if the right buyer comes along I'll pitch my idea, I'm fine with 10% percent of the company! Just need to find the right person to invest in all of this.

As far as starting communities, well I did do that at one point a lot of years ago when IRC was still active. I've created a channel that has around 200+ active members every minute of the day, having peak points of 1000 members active at once.
Glorious times, too bad I was too young and too naive to turn a profit around from all that traffic.

10 years ago

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Everett

I have used those free scripts, and found that since they are free and opensource, there is already a lot of those social networks around. I would rather create my own social network with my own code than to use a free and opensouce script.

Opensource
It is free and opensource meaning anyone could download the script. Since anyone can download you can imagine that there is tons of the opensource networks around. Generally they are all geared towards a website that doesn't necessarily have social capabilities.

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Custom Code
Since it is a custom code, there is only one script. The social network is unique, and you can add any feature or function, change designs, and people would be willing to signup for a social network that is new and innovative.

10 years ago

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idealmike

Yeah that makes sense and seems the best way to go in indeed and in fact, aren't most popular social media sites, social networks all built on their own unique custom create script? But whatever framework or language they run on, there is only so many they can use such as PHP or ASP etc or whatever language and or framework that web servers and web browsers are compatible with. But you can't really get truly creative and create the next big thing with using an open source script as only so much you can do with it!

10 years ago

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vinaya

A couple of weeks ago, I created my social networking site. Since I am not a programmer, I had to get started with CMS. I did not choose wordpress because the social networking sites build with wordpress looks very simple. I wanted to try Dolphin but could not afford the subscription service. I tried Elgg. Elgg is a good CMS for social networking, it has combined elements of twitter, facebook and tumblr. However, Elgg community does not exist therefore it is difficult to work with Elgg.

8 years ago

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Lynne

Oh no, I've never considered doing that before, it never occurred to me and I am not sure I would be able to manage something like that to be honest. But it sounds like something way cool to try. Surely though if you use the same scripts as someone else your social network would be very similar looking. With a different name, sure but still similar?

Surely it would be quite hard to get a social network pumping? I assume you would also need your own team of programmers to make things customized and to add new features?

10 years ago

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idealmike

Not for everyone! Some people already have a forum or community with thousands of members on some particular subject. Call it a community for pitbull terriers or something. Then all they have to do is tell their members about it and they use the community they already have to kick start it. Yeah it would look the same from the start but there's many themes, plugins and things and customization you can do to it to make it unique. I've used Oxwall in the past. Perhaps I should write a review of it on here.

Have you ever started your own social networking community site?

10 years ago

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Lynne

Yes very true. I tried to have a parenting/ mommy forum on my website once and it was so much hard work! Maybe I was doing something wrong but getting people to join and be active in there was like drawing blood from a stone.

That is how I met Beverly

Have you ever started your own social networking community site?

I used her services for my forum.

But after a while I just decided that it was just way too much effort. Athough that was when I didn't know so much and also I had an online store, I now only have a blog so perhaps it would have been easier to manage? Either way I don't have any regrets.

The point of all that was that I can just imagine that getting people not only to join your social network in the first place but getting them to post things and engage must be terribly hard.

Yeah write a review and lets see what it offers.

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procoder

I've never created a social network site before, but in the past i've tested some script almost the same with facebook and twitter, they were cloned scripts of course but with only some little differences between the original version. The thing that i liked mostly from those scripts was the admin panel, because it was pretty easy to customize it and to set your own things. It would be amazing to create something like that, but a social network site needs a huge investment to start, and a little 'luck' because chances to fail are high.

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MusicMoguls

I have never done this myself before, but it sounds like it would help
out a bunch I'm not sure how safe it would be though I guess you could say that is the only thing that concerns me to be honest

10 years ago

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vinaya

I have always wanted to create my own social media site, however, I don't have knowledge and skills to do that. I once heard about a program that offered facebook like social media script. The free version would give you a subdomain and had limited functionality. The premium version would cost $7 per month (the basic subscription), you could use your own domain with the premium version. sadly, I don't remember the name of this program.

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Corzhens

The only network that I can speak of is my membership in some Facebook Groups. Once I was invited to be an admin but I declined for I think it will eat my precious time and it’s not a money-making job. Creating your own social networking community is a hard task because you need to have the passion for it. And it depends on your purpose because if it is just a hobby then that’s a good one for you because, at least, you will enjoy the work.

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