Profiles

Interesting stuff we could perhaps discuss sometime....

Drupal focuses on content, not on users. So a social networking site where people are the center, rather than an interest, require some adjustment to Drupal if it's to be used to run it.

The adjustment really boils down to profiles. Dries has made it clear that users should not be nodes, but there is a group interested in making profiles nodes (a slight difference from users). Also, some interesting things have been done to extend Drupals profiles in interesting ways. Here are some fun links to check out:

Profiles as nodes in d6 http://groups.drupal.org/node/8261
Discussion/article from the author of Advanced Profile module http://shellmultimedia.com/misc/user-profiles
facebook style profile design discussion on Drupal.org http://drupal.org/node/136457

some interesting Drupal profile examples:
www.themes4urmobilephone.com/user/dakku
http://www.ifood.tv/monica
http://socnet.shellmultimedia.com register here to see what your profile will be like