Chapter 1. Social Networking

Given the boom in the Internet and mobile devices industry, people across the world are more connected than ever before. Social networking is the in thing. This book is all about how to build a social networking site or a community site. In this book, we will take a look at a few well-known social networks and some not-so-well-known networks to get an idea of what features are popular. Then we will discuss the community that we will be building in this book. Once we have an idea of what others are doing and what our community will look like, we will dive right in to start building our own demo community.