Social Networking

Abstract

Social networking, also referred to as social computing, is the practice of many people collaborating and sharing information about their lives, preferences, thoughts, and feelings online. The IT industry and personal computing space has seen a prolific increase in the adoption of social networking, through community-based web sites like Facebook.com and Twitter.com, and collaboration via blogs and wikis. SharePoint has always been about collaboration in the workspace, and with the large drive in social networking from the home and personal computing space, corporations and non-corporate organizations are waking up to the benefits that social networking provides.