There have been many people already leveraging their own website as the basis of a *different* approach to social network...May i invite you to the wonderful, and very deep rabbit hole that is the indie web: https://indieweb.org/#.F0.9F.8C.B1_Join_the_IndieWeb

Don't let the view of this website fool you...there's tons of content there to start you off on a fun journey! Enjoy!