1. A computer-implemented method comprising: presenting a user interface to a user to enable the user to select and provide content items and to select privacy settings and/or sharing and publication setting for each content item and/or different types of contents selected and provided via the interface to control interactions of other users of the network related or connected to the user with each content item and/or multiple different types of content; accepting an input provided via selection of the one or more content items and/or one or more types of content via the user interface for the user of the network and receiving via the interface, a content from the user of the network; accepting an input provided via selection of the one or more privacy settings and/or sharing and publication setting via the user interface for the user of the network, the input describing a particular content items and/or type of content to be controlled related to the user and receiving via the interface, a selection of a privacy setting and sharing and publication setting to be associated with the content item and/or one or more types of content from the user, the privacy setting and sharing and publication setting enabling one or more connections and/or set of users and/or determined users and/or subscribers to access the content item; providing or presenting or publishing the content item into one or more communication channels of the network and/or controlling which of the other users are permitted to communicate content to the user and/or to access content and/or one or more types of content of the user via the network based on the input; making the content item accessible to one or more connections and/or set of users and/or determined users and/or subscribers via the communication channel, where accessibility to the one or more connections and/or set of users and/or determined users and/or subscribers is determined by the privacy settings and sharing and publication setting selected by the user; and responsive to receiving a selection and sharing and publication setting to be associated with the content item from locking the content item from being published a communication channel accessible to one or more connections, exclude the content item from the communication channel accessible to the one or more connections.