Ever installed a social networking mod/plug-in or an entire social network on your website?

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I installed a few social networking sharing button on some of my blogs, but never installed a full fledge social network on a domain name I owned.

Mxproject used to have personal blogs and free web hosting for users which is like social networking profiles, but since moving to phpBB3 those things are gone.
 
Yes, just so those who want to use them can.
 
I have social networking buttons not a full social network site...I tried oxwall for a different niche which didn't work out well.
 
Social networking plug-ins are good for members who use Facebook, Twitter, and other sites to bookmark topics, and share topics with friends on social networks since they can access their likes, tweets, and links on any computer or device with an internet connection and a web browser.
 
froggyboy604 said:
Social networking plug-ins are good for members who use Facebook, Twitter, and other sites to bookmark topics, and share topics with friends on social networks since they can access their likes, tweets, and links on any computer or device with an internet connection and a web browser.
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I remember i've installed a whole social network mod, like facebook, in my old forums, but they Failed.
 
I have created a social network before especially for webmasters but that didn't work out too well.
 
I haven't installed any social network mods on my site and I'm not about to put one in either. 

I think that social networks are overrated. And I don't want to run any risk of directing people to spend more time on them (even if they're interacting with social network accounts created for my site) when I have a perfectly good site that could use the attention.

Plus, I personally hate seeing like buttons or tweet this buttons or whatever all over websites. (It looks tacky and ugly to me.) 
 
Adding on to VZ's point, there is also the privacy factor, or lack there of. On forums where personal matters are discussed, or if you'd like to keep certain aspects of your life compartmentalized, it is a bad idea to have them because eventually, someone will "tweet" or "like" part of your post which could have negative consequences, since those reading it will only have access to what was posted, rather than the whole topic.
 
kingcool52 said:
I have created a social network before especially for webmasters but that didn't work out too well.
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The webmaster category seems like a tough website category to get traffic for since there are many websites, blogs, forums, and social networks related to webmaster topics like web hosting, internet marketing, make money online, and other web master topics.

I'm also guesing that many webmaster who know how to webmaster a website made websites related to webmastering since they have experience as a webmaster compared to other topics like pet training, gardening, and house cleaning where they have less experience, so it is more difficult making websites on non-webmaster topics.

I think Digital Points, and Warrior Forums are the two big webmaster websites on the web now,
 
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