The
many-to-many communication paradigm is one of three major
Internet computing paradigms, characterized by multiple users contributing and receiving information, with the information elements often interlinked across different websites. Developments such as
file sharing,
blogs,
Wikis, and
tagging are media forms that reflect this paradigm; these contrast with both the
one-to-one (characterized by
e-mail,
FTP, and
Telnet) and
one-to-many (characterized by websites) paradigms.