Create Your Own Social Networking Page

If you are a fan of MySpace or Facebook (and the chances are you will be) then you'll know how exciting it is to converse with your friends and other netizens within your social network; trading gossip, helping each other out and passing the time of day.

Many of you will have carved out your own niche social network, conversing with a small group of friends and like minded people and many of you may find that the 'one size fits all' solution of sites such as MySpace and Facebook may not cater exactly for your needs. Step forth Ning v2 (http://www.ning.com) the new 'roll your own' social network.

Ning has been around for over a year and so is established in terms of web 2.0 sites. When Ning originally launched although it claimed to allow anyone to build their own Social Network, new users soon found that a certain amount of programming knowledge was required in order to achieve even the most simplistic layout and design feature changes. Over the past several months Ning have been working tirelessly in the background the address such issues and deliver on their promise and Social Sites for All. The good news is that Ning version two does just that.

Ning offers a free signup meaning that you can be on your way to building your own Social Network in minutes.With the few clicks of the mouse and a few generic bits of user data you will find yourself already a fifth of the way through your social site creation. Ning allows you to easily customize your site in terms of functionality and look and feel, allowing you to drag and drop features into and out of your site and offering you a selection of pre built templates which can be further customized.

Current ning Communities are filled with active members discussing everything from politics to Battlestar Galactica in forums, posting pictures of their night outs to galleries and blogging about their days at work in their social network's blogs.

All in all Ning is a very powerful web 2.0 application that can help people interested in a specific niche to connect. So if you have a group of friends or colleagues that could benefit from a little online collaboration, give Ning a try today.