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How to Create Your Own Social Network on Ning

By Daniel Nations, About.com

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How to Set Up a Custom Profile on Ning

Custom Profile on Ning

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The fourth page allows you to customize the profile questions for your social network. These are the questions that will be asked of new users and display under their profile.

You can choose up to six questions to ask. Each question has an answer type that consists of a one line answer, longer answer, multiple choice, date, or website.

A longer answer would be used for a question like "Tell us more about yourself."

If you choose multiple choice, you will be asked to type in the individual choices separated by commas. So, if your question asks if they like cake, your choices might look like "Yes, No, Maybe, Only on my birthday."

To the right of the answer type, you can choose whether the question is required or not, and (in the case of multiple choice answers) whether more than one choice is allowed.

If you do not use all six questions, just click the red X button to remove the remaining question(s) from the list.

Click on the next button when you are done.

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