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social networking (uncountable)

1. The interactions among a group of people who share a common interest (a social network); (sometimes specifically) The use of social contacts to network (pursue career advancement, sales, marketing, electioneering, etc).
   1. (Internet) Interaction with other people via a social network (app or website), involving internet communities.
      • 2008, Don Philabaum, Alumni Online Engagement, →ISBN, page 127:

        Should you spend too much time purchasing and installing social networking software and only have 20 percent of your alumni registered, you are wasting your time and money.

      • 2011, Hart-Davis, iMac Portable Genius, →ISBN:

        As much as possible, avoid the following: • Installing unfamiliar software from shady sources, such as websites you've never heard of or applications posted to forums. • Installing social networking plug-ins.

      • 2012, Catheryn Cheal, Transformation in Teaching: Social Media Strategies in Higher Education, →ISBN:

        The Internet provides an abundant amount of software to access Twitter broadcasts and many mobile phones contain pre-installed social networking applications on the device; however, in this study, students mainly used the Internet to view tweets.

      • 2015, George Leal Jamil, Handbook of Research on Information Architecture and Management in Modern Organizations, →ISBN:

        These Social Web Applications can be public, such as Delicious, Facebook, Flickr, SWiK, Twitter, and YouTube, or private, such as a locally-installed social networking engine Elgg.

      1. (Internet, business) Such activity to network and communicate using shared interests, related skills, or geographical location between consumers and businesses.