Ever since StumbleUpon spun itself off from eBay last April, it’s been reinventing itself at a rapid pace. In June, it launched Su.pr, its own URL shortening service, but that was just an interesting new product. Today, it is starting to roll out a major redesign that recasts the service as a social search engine “somewhere between a Twitter and Google,” says founder Garrett Camp.

No, SU is not a search engine but a great community to discover great websites.

Much of the content on this blog involves information on marketing your site through social media and social networking sites. However, maybe you want to create your own networking site to fill an existing void or rather than using some of those that already exist. If you are interested in building a networking site, you could of course have the site built from scratch, or you could use some type of existing platform to handle the back end of the site.

In this post we’ll look at 9 options for creating your own social network. Some are free options, and others are paid options that may be more appealing depending on your situation.

There are great applications to build your own Social networking site, but be careful building a site much easier than building a network. (In the mean time you should create some social profiles and make thousands of friends)

 

The act of de-friending someone on Facebook may have just become a bit more socially awkward. There’s now a Greasemonkey add-on (available here) that will check your network at scheduled intervals to see if anyone has removed you and alert you when it happens.

As Inside Facebook points out, Facebook doesn’t offer this type of functionality natively. Thus, without the script (or something similar), you’d have to manually check your network for deserters, which would be insanely tedious, especially if you have hundreds of friends.

In other words, what was once fairly easy to get away with (de-friending someone) could become a confrontation if your ex-friend happens to have this script, called Facebook Friends Checker, installed.

Here in the Netherlands it's quite popular to de-friending someone @Hyves. Why because several accounts having so much friends, strangers, spammer and maybe stalker ;)

I removed yesterday 50% of my "friends" from my StumbleUpon account, most removed accounts are inactive for more than 12 month. This is not called de-friending, but "clean-up". On social webbsites we need friends related to our online indentity (or content). I go for the quality and not for the quantity