The document discusses a "Trusted Reference Model" for social commerce that focuses on facilitating interactions between customers to generate user-generated content, ratings, and reviews. It proposes activating buyers to reach out and request recommendations from friends at moments when they are shopping online, such as on merchant sites, comparison sites, or search sites, rather than spamming friends through emails or social networks. Providing "Trusted references" or recommendations from friends in these online shopping contexts can help influence purchase decisions more than recommendations from strangers.