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if you are planning to create your own social networking website, instead of working from scratch, check out Elgg. Elgg is an open source social networking platform.

from their website:

“Elgg is an open, flexible social networking engine, designed to run at the heart of any socially-aware application. Building on Elgg is easy, and because the engine handles common web application and social functionality for you, you can concentrate on developing your idea.”

Elgg can be extended through plugins, plugins provide ways of adding functionality to Elgg like facebook applications.

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