I would like to make a drupal site like facebook or a social network clone.

Can someone recommend me the modules I need for a distribution that would suit my needs?

Basically I need
Profiles with ability to leaves comments on them, For example "nice pics", or "It was great talking to you last night"
Chat
Forum
Member picture gallery
etc.

basically they way boonex dolphin 7 comes out of the box, except I would like to use drupal because it is GPL and it has multi site abilities.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Comments

imranweb’s picture

Hi,

It require good amount of time to list down the modules which are required to build the site like Facebook.
You also need to have good hands on experience with custom module development.

-Imran

mariomc’s picture

Try a drupal distribution such as Drupal Commons to see if it matches your requirements. From your description, I'd say it does in most functionalities. Maybe it's a better start than trying to puzzle all the modules together.

David Ipswich’s picture

Organic Groups module was created for that very purpose (http://drupal.org/project/og) and once the basic module is installed there are quite a few other modules (all starting with the name organic groups) that can be added to add whatever other functions you need.

It's quite a complex thing to do, but start with the basic module and work up. There are links to tutorials on the module page, and there is quite a large organic groups community and forum (and indeed, a group!)