social networking
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.93 in modern English
Meaning
noun
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).
Uncountable
noun
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).
Uncountable
noun
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).
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."