How to Use social networking in a Sentence

social networking

noun
  • The social networking firm has one seat of five on the board.
    Clare Duffy, CNN, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Monkey, founded in 2017, was part of the wave of new social networking apps.
    Reed Albergotti, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The idea is close to Facebook's core social networking roots.
    Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Morton, who works in the short-term rental business, is no stranger to the online social networking world.
    Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The decision is said to be the final one on Trump’s fate on the social networking platform.
    al, 4 May 2021
  • At the start of the year, Gosar defended Fuentes on Gab, a social networking site that attracts the ultra-right-wing.
    Alison Steinbach, The Arizona Republic, 30 Sep. 2022
  • So begins the war of the voices, to see which platform—if any—can rise to mainstream status and shape the future of social networking.
    Arielle Pardes, Wired, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Meanwhile, residents of the area are taking to the Nextdoor social networking service to object to the new plan.
    Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2019
  • The four arranged meetings with the victims using the social networking app Grindr, records state.
    Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 23 June 2021
  • Even so, the change that came about from mobile phones, the Internet and social networking sites feels seismic.
    Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Still, the number of users for Meta’s social networking apps continued to rise.
    New York Times, 2 Feb. 2022
  • In many ways, Peanut bucks the trends and expectations of social networking.
    Blake Morgan, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The two of them co-founded FriendFeed, a social networking site, 13 years ago and sold it to Facebook a couple of years later.
    Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 20 Dec. 2020
  • For much of the weekend, the video of the attack lit up WeChat, a social networking service used by many Chinese Americans.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
  • But Facebook will still argue that Kustomer is not a core part of its business and is not a social networking app.
    Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2020
  • These tweets are consistent with the manner in which Rogozin used the social networking site.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Musk agreed to buy the social networking site in April for $54.20 per share, but changed his mind and sought to back out of the deal a couple of months later as the markets suffered a sharp decline.
    Kylie Robison, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2022
  • There are about 295 million social networking users in the U.S., according to Statista.
    Francesca Gargaglia, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Elon Musk has responded to Twitter's plan to sue him after a deal to buy the social networking website fell through.
    Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 11 July 2022
  • The presentation quotes from Mein Kampf and links to Hitler’s page on a social networking site about books, according to the report.
    Philissa Cramer, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Nov. 2020
  • The judge said in the opinion that the FTC failed to meet the burden for establishing that Facebook has a monopoly in social networking.
    David McLaughlin, Fortune, 28 June 2021
  • For sure, James has his media and social networking platforms to share his message.
    Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2020
  • And to the Facebook whistleblower who’s blown the whistle on the fact that … the social networking giant exists to make money, among other things.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 6 Oct. 2021
  • In the aftermath, many there have called for strict new regulation of the social networking giant and its peers.
    oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2019
  • Elon Musk’s reign of error over the past six months has led to a flood of talent and money into social networking companies.
    Casey Newton, The Verge, 2 May 2023
  • Established in 2016, Gab is a social networking site that attracts the ultra-right-wing.
    Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The research on the Like button was an example of how Facebook has questioned the bedrock features of social networking.
    New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Proud Boy networks on the social networking site Parler depict fights and melees, often set to rock music.
    Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2020
  • What no one on the right is saying, however, is that the latest political violence is often rooted in Trump’s own words on his social networking sites and at his rallies.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2024
  • Be a good listener and attend functions that offer social networking with diverse people who can point you in a positive direction.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 6 July 2024

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