Using social networking for business purposes

In as little as five years, Social Networking has become pervasive in families, relationships, places of work and classrooms. Social Networking using the internet started with e-mail, mailing lists, bulletin board services, internet forums and newsgroups. Social Computing services emerged together with the World Wide Web in the 1990s. Despite the gawkiness of these initial attempts at Social Networking using the Internet, Social Networking has become extremely profitable and popular. The technology responsible for this new evolution of Social Networking is Web2.0 (second generation Web-based platforms designed to aid online collaboration and user-generated content sharing). (Read the article Social Networking Revisited in Accountancy South Africa online and on the Global Accounting Alliance website.)