How to Use social networking in a Sentence

social networking

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  • 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
  • The four arranged meetings with the victims using the social networking app Grindr, records state.
    — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 23 June 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Wales plans to use the nearly $1 million he’s getting from the Christie’s auction for his three-year-old social networking startup called WT Social.
    — Anne Quito, Quartz, 16 Dec. 2021
  • His prominence may also have helped prompt a quick response to the video from social networking companies.
    — Tom Simonite, Wired, 17 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Scammers trawl social networking sites, forums, and blogs for emails.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The company’s 11-member board met with Mr. Musk to discuss his offer to buy the social networking service and take it private.
    — New York Times, 24 Apr. 2022
  • However, a professional social networking site might not have been the place to do it.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Russians posting on social networking sites have blamed Ukraine for killing its own people.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Clubhouse is a new social networking app that is invite-only and now both iOS and Android-friendly.
    — Melissa Litchfield, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • Since then, the app has topped more than 4 million downloads on iOS, according to research firm App Annie, and became one of the top 10 social networking apps.
    — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Like, maybe, the huge social networking platform that Apple has been quietly as well as overtly trying to kneecap for years?
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Nicole has led some of the biggest cases in the office, most recently the kidnappings, attacks and robberies against gay men lured through the Grindr social networking app.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Instagram, though very popular, is a different beast, more about social networking than photography, and doesn't have things like EXIF or even full-size viewing.
    — PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
  • But the professional social networking is incorporating some puzzle-like fun to help drive traffic.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 1 May 2024

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