What is social network? You definitely know about Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Delicious or at least about one of them. They called upon for providing possibility to relatives and friends to communicate with each other online.

Social Networks have some things in common – user has his own account and able to provide his own information as telephone number, ICQ, place of work, education and so on, able to find his schoolmates, high-school mates, just virtual or friends from real life, able to upload his photographs and create photo albums, able to create and join various groups, able to write and receive private messages, common messages, comments to images, news, notes and so on.

Stiff competition between the most famous Social Networks continuously leads to new inventions and features within the particular Social Network, such as games, stream videos, various additions and even serious applications.

The mission of Social Network is kind at first sight – possibility to be in touch with dear to you people, however teenagers as main target of this spending too many time online and often became addicted to such site, loosing connection with real world. But this is the question of good breeding and self control already and anyway good and big Social Network has tremendous traffic driven to it and so great revenues.

So if you are enticed to develop Social Network. First, answer the question – Why do you need to develop Social Networking website?

- You are developing Social Networking Website for a real community you are a member of (your local bike club). NO financial ambitions, just fun and communication.

- You are developing niche Social Network for a group of people with common interests or problems. You HAVE financial ambitions.

- You want to initiate an enormous website, like Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace. So you have BIG financial ambitions.

First variant doesn’t need big money investments but be ready if you choose third one. To develop Social Networking Website with millions of users you must have significant amount of money for beginning and strong financial support from sponsors during growth of such monster. So let’s talk about most reasonable second variant.

Think about what your Network will require.

This is the main thing for any successful project. For example if you are developing a Social Network for people with weight problems, you could provide the “what is your diet now” feature or all profiles may show “how many kilos have gone”.

If you will have stylish things like this, user’s experience will be greatly enhanced. The members will have feeling as they are part of a community exactly for them, rather than community with features they don’t need.

You need to have full control over your community. If your budget is limited, you’ll have to find a script that meets your requirements as much as possible. Such software packages are usually open source, so they can be customized. All you need then is to find developer for your needs; you may either ask programmers on forums of apply to affordable web design studio to reduce your costs. You can also try make some inquires on freelancer’s website.

Before developing Social Networking website, you have to think of how you will allure members to join you. You can speak ask people that you already know to join you and help to spread your network among their friends and friends of their friends and so on. You will need to post on existing forums, maybe place a Google ad, or write articles with keywords (like this one) and so on.

Be ready, than you will need financial support. As soon as quantity of user will exceed 100 thousand users, your network will start grow faster and faster. And you will be forced to pay great amount of moneys for new servers.

If you want to develop such big Social Networking website like Facebook, you will need much stronger financial support and years of developing, ideas and promotion, before it will be profitable. But if success achieved the profits are enormous.