By Ryan Broderick, Editor-In-Chief

Squib.me is a social network created by University students Jonathan El Kordi-Hubbard and Jon Sanjay Caputo. The duo describe it as having “the media promotion aspect of Facebook, and the community feel of Facebook,” which kind of immediately begs the question “why not just use facebook?”

Upon signing up you’re brought to a type of newsfeed but for the entire site’s community. There’s also a music player that takes its look and utility from Myspace. Which is smart because the Myspace music player was the only thing worthwhile about Myspace to start.

Squib’s based on the make-it-yourself social network template provided by Ning.com, with “unique” branding. In the world of open source everything, it was only a matter of time before anyone could make his own social media site. Of course, with a site that has the sole purpose of socializing, why make another?

Squib’s backend is a little cluttered and a bit all over the place in terms of features. There’s a blogging option, a picture sharing feature, a music streaming service, a public forum and groups. There might be more things to try out, but navigation is tough and not very intuitive.

On their About Us page they write “Simply just add content,” which feels a bit like the philosophy behind a social aggregator, like Reddit, but again, it’s a bit of a mystery as to what the angle is here.

Try out Squib if you’re tired of Facebook, Google Buzz, Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, Digg, Myspace, Livejournal, Soundcloud, Formspring or whatever platform you use to interact online. If you’re going to make a social network though, it seems like it would make more sense to make a niche community with a purpose, like geolocating or microblogging or easy content creation. It just seems needless.

It just seems like one more site.

Screen Shot of the Squib.me homepage.