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noun

the development of social and professional contacts; the sharing of information and services among people with a common interest.

Digital Technology. the use of websites or other online technologies to communicate with people and share information, resources, etc.: I found my current job through social networking.

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social networker, noun

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How to use social networking in a sentence

It also shows how social networking services could foster more confrontational tactics by those committed to false ideas about the dangers of immunization as the mass vaccination effort ramps up.
Anti-vaccine protest at Dodger Stadium was organized on Facebook, including promotion of banned ‘Plandemic’ video|Isaac Stanley-Becker|February 2, 2021|Washington Post
Facebook, the FTC alleges, has a monopoly on social networking.
Facebook is now officially too powerful, says the US government|Eileen Guo|December 9, 2020|MIT Technology Review
There’s a ton of promotional techniques, including free activities done through social networking, emailing or cross-promotion.
How to kickstart your channel on Roku and stand out: A comprehensive guide|Sponsored Content: Allroll|October 28, 2020|Search Engine Land
Nextdoor has built an entire social networking product around neighborhood connections, and as Bloomberg notes, it is looking at an IPO.
Social Shorts: Snapchat’s rising ARPU, Facebook’s moves on Nextdoor, Instagram’s age controls|Ginny Marvin|October 26, 2020|Search Engine Land

However, citing data about usage and reach, the subcommittee report bluntly states, “Facebook has monopoly power in the market for social networking.”
Congressional report blasts Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook as monopolistic ‘gatekeepers’ of the digital economy|Greg Sterling|October 7, 2020|Search Engine Land
He finished second in 2008 behind John McCain, and maintains a reservoir of good will among Republican social conservatives.
Can Huckabee Convert the GOP’s Moneymen?|Lloyd Green|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Where the force generating those threats is a widespread, self-sustaining, and virulent social movement?
Cover-Ups and Concern Trolls: Actually, It's About Ethics in Suicide Journalism|Arthur Chu|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The TVA, a federally owned and chartered electric power provider, is a New Deal legacy just like Social Security.
Steve Scalise Shows There’s a Fine Line Between Confederate & Southern|Lloyd Green|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Social media forces us to not only be vulnerable for our partner but for the whole world.
Random Hook-Ups or Dry Spells: Why Millennials Flunk College Dating|Ellie Schaack|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
One blames black Americans as a race; the other, racism as a social structure.
No Gods, No Cops, No Masters|James Poulos|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
To others the fierce desire for social justice obliterates all fear of a general catastrophe.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
And our views of poverty and social betterment, or what is possible and what is not, are still largely conditioned by it.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
Our social life is aimless without it, we are a crowd without a common understanding.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
And an educational movement is more tenacious than any other sort of social or political movement whatever.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells