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
  • The idea is close to Facebook's core social networking roots.
    — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Scammers trawl social networking sites, forums, and blogs for emails.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • For sure, James has his media and social networking platforms to share his message.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2020
  • By all means, ask people in your circle not to post photos of your family on social networking sites.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 15 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • His prominence may also have helped prompt a quick response to the video from social networking companies.
    — Tom Simonite, Wired, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Monkey, founded in 2017, was part of the wave of new social networking apps.
    — Reed Albergotti, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • These tweets are consistent with the manner in which Rogozin used the social networking site.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • There was also the boom in social networking and, before that, the internet bubble.
    — Salvador Rodriguez, CNBC, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Fast forward to today — Ping is gone and Facebook reigns supreme in the social networking space.
    — Kara Swisher, Recode, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The four arranged meetings with the victims using the social networking app Grindr, records state.
    — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 23 June 2021
  • In the aftermath, many there have called for strict new regulation of the social networking giant and its peers.
    — oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Proud Boy networks on the social networking site Parler depict fights and melees, often set to rock music.
    — Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This week, Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in an antitrust trial that could result in the breakup of Meta’s social networking empire.
    — Steven Levy, Wired News, 18 Apr. 2025
  • 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

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