When people use that term now, they use it to describe things like Flock, described as a social web browser because you can easily send content you like to your friends and it integrates with Web 2.0 systems providing you with customized data streams.

But what “social browsing” really should refer to is something like “group browsing” or maybe “party browsing” - how do you browse the internet in a party-setting where a lot of people want to look at different things. More on this to follow.