Thank you, Bonnie, for directing me to this topic.
I have just installed a new package which will allow you to add any of the following links to your profile:
Facebook
MySpace
Twitter
Google+
LinkedIn
Youtube
DeviantArt
Pinterest
As always, please make sure that anything you link to outside PF is family-friendly and non-commercial.myself i'm a pretty experienced administrator, due to this i know it's pretty easy to do in most forumsoftware by use of modifications.
These are mostly pretty straight forward and easy to install.
In essence it's quite true that you can upload countless modifications to a forum.
But problems can happen when these mods conflict with each other, as I've found when trying to create separate pages that link to the main menu. And if the person who creates the mod doesn't keep it updated when new versions of smf are released, then it can often stop working and cause inconvenience to the people who have become accustomed to having it as a "standard" feature. This is the main reason I try to keep the forum's structure as close to the original as possible.
Because this is an unofficial modification created by a fan and not the smf developers, there is the small chance it will cause errors in the forum system. If this happens, I will have to uninstall it and try something else.