Have you ever wanted to host your very own social networking site?

Now you can with Ning, it is very easy and only takes a minute or two to set up Oh! and did I mention that it is free, of course there are premium options too.

Your members can blog, add pictures, video, music and many more features to their pages that you as the administrator allow, and as the administrator you can ban, remove and moderate the site as you wish.

I have a Dance website in which the users have been asking me to add a page where they could add their own profiles and other things too and after months of searching I found Ning.com the best option for my site, at the moment though I have only the basic package on Ning but as time goes on I will probably have to use some of the premium features.

To link to the ning site I have added a link button to my homepage which opens the page in a new window, so that it feels to users like part of my website.

For a small fee you can:

Run Ads on Your Social Network:

Turn your new social network into a money maker! You can use any ad serving service you'd like. You can also use this feature to protect your social network from showing any ads at all.

Use Your Own Domain Name:

Do you own your own domain name? use it for your new social network?

Remove Ning Promotion Links:

This service will hide the "Create Your Own Social Network" links on your network and will allow you to move or remove the "Created By" module from your layout.This service will not remove the term Ning ID or the Ningbar from your network.

Get More Storage and Bandwidth

If your social network getting popular? You can purchase more storage and bandwidth.

I am a newbie at Ning.com but my initial impression is very favourable, it looks good, it is easy to use and for the moment it is totally free, this could be a great addition to my website.

Hopefully it will be the boost that my site has sorely needed to attract visitors.

Initial impression 8/10 but this score could change when I have gotten to know the site more.