"social networking" meaning in English

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        "The use of Internet communities to network and communicate using shared interests, related skills, or geographical location between consumers and businesses."
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        "(Internet, business) The use of Internet communities to network and communicate using shared interests, related skills, or geographical location between consumers and businesses."
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          "ref": "2008, Don Philabaum, Alumni Online Engagement, page 127",
          "text": "Should you spend too much time purchasing and installing social networking software and only have 20 percent of your alumni registered, you are wasting your time and money.",
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          "ref": "2011, Hart-Davis, iMac Portable Genius",
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          "ref": "2012, Catheryn Cheal, Transformation in Teaching: Social Media Strategies in Higher Education",
          "text": "The Internet provides an abundant amount of software to access Twitter broadcasts and many mobile phones contain pre-installed social networking applications on the device; however, in this study, students mainly used the Internet to view tweets.",
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          "ref": "2015, George Leal Jamil, Handbook of Research on Information Architecture and Management in Modern Organizations",
          "text": "These Social Web Applications can be public, such as Delicious, Facebook, Flickr, SWiK, Twitter, and YouTube, or private, such as a locally-installed social networking engine Elgg.",
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        "(Internet) Interaction with other people via a social network"
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      "sense": "interaction between a group of people",
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