Why create a social network instead of joining an existing one?
Drupal as a social networking platform
Preparing Drupal for a Social Networking Site
Administering Drupal: an overview
User Content: Contributions, Forums, and Blogs
Contributions in the form of pages
Automatically generated content
What are we going to do and why?
Adding special properties to user profiles
Profile comments with the Guestbook module
Communicating on an individual basis
Theme customizations for communication
Improving our Network with Custom Modules