Social interaction is an integral part of human behavior. Social interaction can be verbal as well as written. Earlier social interaction was face-to-face but with the technological advancement and popularity of internet, interaction has become virtual and technology driven. The tool used for this purpose is termed as Social Computing or Web 2.0.

Social computing is a great amalgamation of social interaction and digital media. It is a system that supports information gathering, processing and dissemination across organizational structure and social communities such as facebook, twitter, myspace, linkldn and other related community websites. Few common examples of social computing include the use of e-mails for maintaining social relationships and for sharing official information, instant messaging for day-to-day coordination with colleagues and friends or blogs, forums or message boards as a community building device. These social computing softwares contribute effectively in social interaction. These social computing tools have really helped everyone in creating, sharing, collaborating and finding content anytime anywhere. They are designed keeping in mind the users and are highly interactive and innovative. Social computing helps in building and extending relationships among individuals as well as companies and accessing the Wisdom of crowds. But to achieve this certain components are needed, as mentioned below:

• People – Social media and social computing is all about people. For this, information about people, their favorite communications, their associations and other related details are a must.

• Content – While using social computing tools content is a very important element. For socialization of information fresh and appropriate content is required and needs to be accessible everywhere.

• Context of Networks – Social computing tools is used for organizing social networks for different sources such as individuals, teams, departments and organizations and the context of work and relevance of information changes as per the requirement. So, the social computing tools are to be designed very critically and differentiated well.

• Social Alliance – It provides an environment where people can share information, ideas, knowledge and solve problems of individuals and enterprises. Various techniques as developed by Web 2.0 are used that greatly helps in empowering social knowledge.

• People friendly Tools – The social computing tools needs to be user friendly, interactive, easy in operation and can correct and classify content and information within the context of social networks.

Due to the diversity of social networks and sources of information, social computing cannot come from a single source. So, integration of social computing with different sources is an extremely important and critical task. To facilitate smooth integration, the social computing should be open source, should have the ability to integrate the inside out and vice versa and should have rest-style architecture. If the social computing platform is designed using all these elements then the social networking tools would be easier to operate and less complicated.