I need help figuring out what program is best for a social website.

Hi Brian,

It's entirely up to you. Everything you need to create a social network is available here on Treehouse.

First I would make sure you are adept at HTML, CSS and JavaScript as these are standard requirements to build a website.

Then, choose which language you would like to build the back end in to make the site dynamic. You could use PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript all of which are available here on Treehouse to learn.

For your information, Facebook was created using PHP, Twitter was created using Ruby (Ruby on Rails framework) and Myspace uses JavaScript (Node.js).

You shouldn't worry about which language to build a Social Network in, just get learning and make sure you have a really unique idea that no one else has tried before that takes the world by storm.

Good luck.

PS. When you are the new Zuckerberg, I would at least like a mention on your social network :D

Youtube is in Python. As you can see, there is no right tool Brian, so don't feel to overwhelmed yet. It would be good to learn a little about them all, and than decide which language you want to work in.