After looking around the website for a bit i've noticed quite a few guides on how to create a social networking website. There seems to be loads of these sort of guides, i guess it's because people are starting to think how to make money out of such a popular trend.
The first one i found really reminds me of the get rich quick schemes that used to fill up the internet, well i guess they still do but i just ignore them. The link for this one is:
http://www.startasocialnetwork.com/
This guide goes through loads of subjects about starting up, such as how to get your first 2000 members quickly and using social psychology to boost your membership. Obviously these subjects are very important to someone who's starting a site to make money, not very helpful to me though as the university will own my work!
The next article i found was a 4 step guide to a successul start in social media. Might be helpful, here's the link
http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/seo-blog/index.php/how-to-get-started-in-social-media/
This one is much more useful than the previous, it includes guides on what to include such as video sharing and forums. It also tells you the positives and negatives of these features. This could become very helpful later on
Well i could sit here and link loads more, to be honest there all pretty similar if you really want to see more, just search "how to create your own social networking site" into google and enjoy the reading!
