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
  • Investors have cut the value of the social networking giant by about $50 billion in the past two days.
    Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Fast forward to today — Ping is gone and Facebook reigns supreme in the social networking space.
    Kara Swisher, Recode, 2 Apr. 2018
  • What’s the breakout, say by games, social networking, etc.?
    Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 4 June 2018
  • Dozens of customers have weighed in on the social networking site and only two have given it a bad review.
    Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 20 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • This project was inspired by a thread on TheChainlink.org social networking site, in which members shared their favorite stealth routes.
    John Greenfield, Chicago Reader, 20 June 2018
  • 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
  • Robinson’s Disqus page is also linked to the Black social networking site Black Planet.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Nextdoor, a social networking service for neighborhoods, created a list of Louisville's favorite spots for a morning cup.
    Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 21 Sep. 2024

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