Social networking has become mainstream but not even reached its peak. The more Internet users there are in the world the more people use all kinds of social networks for various purposes, not only Facebook, Myspace, hi5, Bebo. OpenWack software will let you create your own social network for any purpose.
Social networking is not only for hobby projects. It's real business with ad-supported or virtual goods and gaming business models. The boom of social networks as we know them is not slowing down and is not likely to do so in the nearest decades. Community sites just have so many uses that it's not quite clear how we survived when the Web was not social yet.
Now starting a social network requires a few minutes. OpenWack is _specifically_ dedicated to be a social network site software first. All other uses are secondary. OpenWack is the only user-friendly, simple, and plugin-oriented software for deploying a custom social network.
You need to wait before we have OpenWack platform and any social networking site software plugins in place to show. Until then you can check social community software by SkaDate.