At DateLeaf, after you create an account, you are set up with some default networks, such as friends, blurbs and personal. The 'blurbs' network is public. Use it post your public announcements. You can also get tweets into this network by connecting to twitter. The 'personal network is private. You can add members to this network. Use to for private communication among members. The friends network is for friends. Whatever you post here is shared with friends. You can see all friends activity on friends pad. Apart from these, you can create as many networks as you wish each with different private settings. They can be as private or as public as you wish.

Everyone has different people they interact with. What we share with family is not what we share with coworkers or business associates, for example. For most people, this is a real issue about how to get some controlon sharing things selectively. Some information, images etc. we share with friends and family may be quite inappropriateto share with others. If you are a person who cares about your privacy, it's important to share selectively so you have a controlon who has access to what pieces of information about you. If you care about such issues, private social networks are exactly whatyou may be missing so far, the kind DateLeaf offers!

At DateLeaf, your networks are named conveniently as a dot-pair of username.networkname. if your loginname is "myname", your networks are addresses as myname.ptamembers or myname.project etc.

Your networks can be accessed directly as
       http://www.dateleaf.com/chatpad/myname/mynetwork
       http://www.dateleaf.com/chatpad/myfriend/hernetwork