Need help to make a social networking site

Hi friends. This is my first post and I need a help. I want to make a social networking website with the following basic features :
1. Two levels of networking, free and premium.
2. free members should be able to communicate with free members and premium members with premium members.
3. however, there must be a concept where free members "follow" some of premium members of their choice just like twitter. This should give them some previlige like viewing their wall.

I want to know which script will let me implement all these ( and a few more ) features ?? Till now, i have used wordpress, and I know a little bit of html and CSS. Please help me out. I have installed dolphin but I don't think it will be suitable.

 

Give a try to Drupal with ubercart module.

 

There are actually social networking site php scripts out there but it would be easier to use a CMS if you don't know what you are doing

 

try with joomla and jomsocial

 

I have had a view of the features of this module but from nowhere it seems to be a social networking module. it seems to be more of an e-commerce extension. Please correct me if I am wrong.

 

I think it is paid. Although I am ready to pay, but I want to make sure it meets the requirements. Are you sure it will fulfill my criteria especially the- 2 levels of networking concept ? Thanks for the suggestion by the way.

 

Ubercart can be used to make membership: like Free membership, paid membership etc
Drupal with some other module can be used to make social networking.

 

Try one of these, all three are great scripts.

phpFox - http://www.phpfox.com (the best of the 3)

Social Engine - http://www.socialengine.net

Jomsocial - http://www.jomsocial.com (this one is a Joomla component)

Note: Jomsocial has a 25% off till september 5.

 

JomSocial is awesome... using it now. Too bad that there is no active coupon for it. I might purchase developer license for unlimited websites. Should we do a group buy for developer license?

 

I have tried these sites -
they are not at all user friendly.

 

There are actually social networking site php scripts out there but it would be easier to use a CMS if you don't know what you are doing

 

I've done a social networking website with Dolphin 7. Buddy Press is also a good platform. Just depends on what you need, and what you are saying so far is pretty standard with most platforms.

 

I eff reliable these sites -they are not at all user chummy.

 

try using oxwall...its easy to install on ur webserver