I do think it’s IMPORTANT to follow your dreams and do something which you are excited by. If you follow your heart and do what you like, you will do always much better, It doesn’t matter what your educational qualification is.

SUNDER PICHAI (CEO OF GOOGLE)

How did Mark Zuckerberg change the world? He built a global community that brings people closer together. The origins of Facebook are available to the general public. Everyone is familiar with the story of building social network platform that will greatly impact human relations and economy. Mark's vision of community opened a door to many variations of social media network platforms that today exist. Jack Dorsey created Twitter in March 2006. Rome may not have been built in a day, but Twitter was built in just two weeks, says Jack.

Various social networks have become a real must-have of our daily lives. These resources entertain us; they help us find business partners or make new friends, and so on and so forth. One more benefits: popular networking platforms are able to bring a huge deal of money to their owners (according to statistics, annual revenue can reach billions of dollars).

WHY DO WE NEED SOCIAL NETWORKING

• To stay in touch with what friends and Family
• To stay up-to-date with news and current events
• General networking with other people
• To share photos or videos
• To research new products to buy
• To meet new people

TYPES OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

Building a social website isn't the same as adding social elements to a website. You're not just plugging in a widget to your website to show the streaming newsfeed from your blog. If your business model is focused on building a social website, what does this mean from a development point of view? Social media industry is a promising area let’s look at the varieties of sites of this kind –

• Social Communication
• Entertaining
• Business
• Dating Websites

FEATURES AND FUNCTIONS OF NETWORKING WEBSITE

Answer the following question:

• What do you want your users to be able to do?

• What information will be available to the public and what information will be private?

• What functions do you need to put in place to protect your data?

If these questions are answered you kick off to develop the social networking site, ensure its proper competitiveness: it should be able to compete in an adequate manner with other similar resources. The user needs are very high nowadays and you have to be ready to reach all these requirements. So, in order to develop a social networking website of really good quality, one must consider the following Features:

• Easy Profile Creation
• Attractive Profile Features
• Secure Login
• Privacy Controls
• Advanced Settings
• Advanced Search Criteria
• Push Notifications
• Real-Time Messaging
• Google Map Integration
• Content Sharing
• Audio/Video Chat
• Image/Video Editing
• News Feed
• File transfer
• Deferred reading

TECHNOLOGY CHOICES

Once you have identified the functions of your website, you need to identify a firm and platform to create this website. The biggest concern during this process for most companies is the clarification of comparing what seems like apples to oranges. When you're a non techie, evaluating technology is never easy, and one way to make this process easier is to hire a consultant to help you compare technologies. This is a great way to save time and money. Your consultant will be there to ask questions you did not think to ask.

If you to decide to do this yourself, ask the firms you're considering some very specific questions, and spend some time reviewing information on the varying technologies that are presented to you. For example, ask the firms what application platform they envision developing your social website on and why. Responses may vary from using frameworks like Drupal, Ruby on Rails or .Net. Every firm will have their favorites (it's hard not to), but you will want to ask if they are familiar with other application platforms and whether they have developed using these technologies. This question will allow you to see if the firm you're considering is really evaluating the best solution for you vs. what is comfortable for them.

A third option is to take the time to familiarize you with the different technologies used to build social websites. Get to know what some of your favorite social sites are built on and why. From there, you can look for a firm that specializes in the application you have decided on. Keep in mind that building a social website is about two important factors--a clear business model and the applications used to help you grow that business.