How to Create a Social Network

Creating your own social network is a good way to network with colleagues, family, friends or other like-minded people. Creating your own social network at MySpace, Ning or Facebook allows you and others to create personal profiles. It lets you stay in touch with others or make new friends and contacts. Read on to learn more.

Instructions

1. Decided where you would like to create your social network. Visit MySpace, Ning, Facebook or any other networking site. Customize your page to suite your tastes.

2. Sign up for a free account, and follow the directions to design your page and set up your network. The software on the website should walk you through the entire set up and answer your questions on how to start networking.

3. Choose a name and theme for your social network. Whether it is a personal-, business- or hobby-related network, you may create your design accordingly.

4. Invite other like-minded people into your social network or if they don't have a page, invite them to sign up and create their own social network.

Tips & Warnings

• Design your network settings so all comments, friends or other additions must be approved by you. This will ensure you don't have things for the public to see that you don't approve of or agree with.

• Spammers and those individuals who represent themselves as something they're not may also try to be included in your network. Check out their profiles before accepting them.

Resources

• Facebook is a social utility that connects you with other people.
• MySpace is a social networking website.
• Ning is an online social networking service.