My Logo Design

As I am creating my own social network I now need to design the logo for it and chose what colour scheme I will use as the basis of the page. I cannot use blue as I feel this is too similar to Facebook and I do want my social network to stand as its own, especially because of copyright reasons too.
I originally liked the idea of using red and black for my colour scheme but after playing around and creating some logo ideas I decided it seemed to harsh and did not reflect a friendly site.

I felt I needed a more neutral colour scheme which is how I got on to working with green for my colour scheme. Green has neutral connotation and it is not gender specific so would be perfect for a social network page. Below you can also see how I have started trying to see how I would set out the site as well.