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
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The decision is said to be the final one on Trump’s fate on the social networking platform.
—al, 4 May 2021
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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
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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
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The four arranged meetings with the victims using the social networking app Grindr, records state.
—Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 23 June 2021
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Still, the number of users for Meta’s social networking apps continued to rise.
—New York Times, 2 Feb. 2022
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In many ways, Peanut bucks the trends and expectations of social networking.
—Blake Morgan, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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There are about 295 million social networking users in the U.S., according to Statista.
—Francesca Gargaglia, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Established in 2016, Gab is a social networking site that attracts the ultra-right-wing.
—Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 2 Feb. 2022
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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
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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
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His prominence may also have helped prompt a quick response to the video from social networking companies.
—Tom Simonite, Wired, 17 Mar. 2022
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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
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Scammers trawl social networking sites, forums, and blogs for emails.
—Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2021
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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
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However, a professional social networking site might not have been the place to do it.
—Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
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Russians posting on social networking sites have blamed Ukraine for killing its own people.
—Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
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Clubhouse is a new social networking app that is invite-only and now both iOS and Android-friendly.
—Melissa Litchfield, Forbes, 11 June 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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