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Social Shopping

Social Shopping combines traditional shopping with the community elements of social bookmarking and social networking to create a new Web 2.0 shopping experience.
What is Social Shopping?
Social shopping is the combination of social media and e-commerce. In essence, it is taking all of the key aspects of the social web -- friends, groups, voting, comments, discussions -- and focusing them on the world's favorite activity -- shopping -- to create social shopping.
7 Essential Social Shopping Websites
Want to get involved with social shopping but don't know where to start? These 7 essential sites will get you started.
The Most Popular Social Shopping Websites
Social shopping is one of the most recent trends to come from the social explosion of Web 2.0. Social shopping sites are those websites that combine social elements such as a social networking community or the ability to set social bookmarks with aspects of shopping such as product reviews and deal hunting.
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