The Internet of Things (IoT) has been a new trend in the IT business and the assembling group for quite a while. Yet, in this way, the battle with IoT is that it is attempting to locate an extraordinary advertising message about how it will specifically enhance human lives. It has been stated that the ones who are tied in a social network can give significantly give more exact responses to complicated issues than an individual alone. This rule has been seriously considered in different websites. Lately, with the help of IoT frameworks, it was made possible to connect billions of objects in a very short term. The Social Internet of Things (SIoT) is characterized as an IoT where things are fit for building social associations with different items, independently regarding people. In this chapter we propose to discuss on the origin, development and current status of SIoT and propose some scope for future studies. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.