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One simple way to define a social networking platform might be, “a tool that lets students, parents, and educators collaborate online”.

allow educators to make pages and forums that are course-specific and not wide open to everyone

create multiple online groups for individual classrooms, projects, extracurricular activities,

critical thinking, reading, writing, technology

Blogging does just that

like Edublogs.org

Social networking has made explicit the connections between people, so that a thriving ecosystem of small programs can exploit this “social graph” to enable friends to interact via games, greetings, video clips and so on.

But should users really have to visit a specific website to do this sort of thing? “We will look back to 2008 and think it archaic and quaint that we had to go to a destination like Facebook or LinkedIn to be social,” says Charlene Li at Forrester Research, a consultancy. Future social networks, she thinks, “will be like air. They will be anywhere and everywhere we need and want them to be.”