social networking

American  

noun

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

2. 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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Other Word Forms

• social networker noun

Etymology

Origin of social networking

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

In September, OpenAI launched Sora as a dedicated app to create and share AI-generated videos with friends, which many viewed as a social networking app modeled after TikTok.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Meta plans to acquire Moltbook, a social networking platform for artificial intelligence agents, to scale its AI capabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Some 3.58 billion people used apps owned by Meta daily in the quarter, which are being enhanced with the help of AI, according to the social networking giant.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

AI allows these companies to improve the services—search, social networking and e-commerce—around which their advertising businesses are built.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

“Right. Most of the social networking sites are gone, and all of the e-mail services are required to monitor the e-mails being sent on their servers.”

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken