Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The interaction between a group of people who share a common interest.
- n. Using social contacts to network.
- n. Internet, business The use of Internet communities to network and communicate using shared interests, related skills, or geographical location between consumers and businesses.
- n. A web interface that allows users to post ideas and interact. Groups and relationships of complete strangers may be formed by various means such as interests or mutual friends.
Examples
“To its captive audience of kids in classrooms and on school buses via similar BusRadio programs, Channel One ads promoted violent and/or sexually provocative movies and TV shows, online social networking sites, the U.S. Army/Navy/Marine Corps, and, before opponents prevailed in 2007, junk food.71”
“It included a social networking area called “Mommy+Me,” a forum where McCarthy would answer readers’ questions, and an e-commerce section that offered tank tops and baby doll tees for sale alongside one-year subscriptions to something called a “Prayer Wheel”; the services of McCarthy’s sister, Jo Jo, a “celebrity makeup artist”; and Quantum Radiance Treatment by McCarthy’s friend Nicole Pigeault.”
“Confuse BYB with talk radio, your blog or your social networking web site of choice.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘social networking’.
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bbc uk china vocab.
conservationists, estimate, threats, infertility, eating away at, endangered, furry, panel, in trouble, gongs, triumphed, caps and 1007 more...
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Words of the decade 2000-2009
These are the words which characterize the decade, the ones on minds, on lips, in hearts: the ones which rose or flourished during these ten years, and became an inseparable part of our discourse, ...
Google, iPod, 9/11, global war on terror, social networking, texting, green, blog, podcast, sudoku, sexting, dubya and 7 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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Digital Terms
Words come and go, perhaps nowhere faster than online. Some industry terms to stay current -- or to remember as they rest in peace.
tweet, cpm, crackberry, nofollow, brick-and-mortar, page view, double opt-in, opt-in, opt-out, mash-up, word of mouth, ctr and 200 more...
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words web 2.0 taught me
folksonomy, crowdsourcing, meh, social bookmarking, social networking, wikipediholic, meta
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this modern world
Markers of the zeitgeist, don't expect all of these to go the distance. The great majority are taken from Paul McFedries's excellent book "Wordspy"
retail therapy, compulsive shoppi..., clicks-and-mortar, dot.commer, middlescence, boomeritis, dorian graying, sandwich generation, boomeranger, full-nest syndrome, wellderly, brand equity and 226 more...
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Internet Buzzwords
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judith's word inbox
collocated, carnaval, articulate, reticulated, cilia, sardonic, aesthetics, tenacity, tensile, jubilant, ebullient, ethereal and 206 more...
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Cringe List
No. Just no.
"Slang, though humanly irreverent, tends to be inhumanly loveless. It lacks tenderness and compassion; its poetry has the effulgence of a soldier's brass buttons."
...woot, w00t, anyways, whatever, totes, booyah, sick, ill, nom, anyhoo, frickin', jeebus and 81 more...
Tweets
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