How powerful is Perl for building social networks?

Perl is a highly efficient and robust scripting language. There are quite a few sites who have made extensive use of Perl in their development.

One such site is booking.com, a pioneer in enabling its customers to book and reserve hotel bookings via the web. It does all sorts of things like:

• real-time customer booking notification and availability updates
• localization of booking information on user location
• profile creation and maintenance
• push notifications

You could make all use of that to build a highly efficient social network of your own. Moreover, they even publish articles in their blogs on ways to improve your Perl coding

http://blog.booking.com/