What is Social Networking

It is specifically the use of reserved websites and functions to communicate with other users, or to local people with common interests to one’s own.

Practices of gathering and managing a network of friends with specific interests; it means different things to different people, depending on their goals, their access to, and their use of varying communication technologies.

Refers to the use of dedicated websites and applications for people interaction.

Refers to the use of dedicated websites and applications for people interaction.

A phenomenon that allows people with similar interests to meet, interact and expand their contacts (both personal and professional).

Is the creation and maintenance of personal and business relationships especially online Social networking service: is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on facilitating the building of social networks or social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections. A social network service consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network services are web-based and provide means for users to interact over the Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. Online community services are sometimes considered as a social network service, though in a broader sense, social network service usually means an individual-centered service whereas online community services are group-centered. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks.

The use of technology to connect with other people in the same field of work, or with similar interests as the user.

“The practice of expanding knowledge by making connections with individuals of similar interests” ( Gunawardena et al., 2009 , p. 4) that may be used in an effort to engage learners in meaningful ways. Social networking is a fundamental route to enhance student academic engagement ( Lint, 2013 ). It should entail guided discovery, reflective activities, journaling, contextualized learning and other exercises that imbue learner-learner interactions of a transactional nature, allow higher order thinking through which meaningful learning occurs ( Garrison, 1999 ; Hirumi, 2002 ).

A Web 2.0 service that provides users with a platform to set up personal spaces online to share information, music, software applications, etc.

The use of web-based social media programs to interact with peoples for some purposes.

Websites or applications allowing individuals to interact with other users such as those with similar interests.

An inter-connected group of online users and/or user communities.

A term typically used to describe socialization via electronic media, specifically, but not exclusively, via Internet and cellular telephony-based media. It also refers to the non-electronic process of creating relationships with other individuals that last over time. Typically, for a social network to exist, members of the network must necessarily have mutual relationships with more than just one member of the network, though direct relationships with all members of the network is not required.

Joining and participating in interconnected Internet communities (sometimes known as personal networks).

A service to create, populate, and build social relations among people or social actors who share similar characteristics, interests, or activities.

Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighbourhood subdivision, if you will. Although social networking is possible in person, especially in the workplace, universities, and high schools, it is most popular online.

Where individuals can have social contacts, display each other’s lists, where they can share their links, which can be open to public or only to specific groups, friends etc. like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

Service that allows users to build online communities of people who share a common interest in order to share opinions and/or experiences.

A generic term for Internet-based systems that allow users to create communities based around shared interests for the purposes of sharing and exchange.

Interacting with friends and connections in ones’ social network and expanding ones’ social network.

The use of internet-based social media programs to make connections with friends, family, classmates, customers and clients.

The process of creating, building and expanding virtual communities and links between people online, often through social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, etc.

In this sense, Websites designed to connect people together who have common interests

The services that allow to managing the relationships in online social communities.

Group of people who are drawn together due to common interests or backgrounds and use internet technologies to communicate.

A social support system which provides information or services to people and groups with shared common interests.

This is the use of Internet-based social media platforms to keep in contact with friends, families, colleagues, customers, or clients.

Social networking platforms support design and maintenance of private and professional relationships on the internet. They act in accordance with demands and premises of increasingly diversified user-groups with the aim, to facilitate cooperation between individuals as well as the exchange of thoughts and contents.

A term describing an online process. It is a Website technology that allows users to search, identify, and communicate with other people as contacts, fitting closest to their specified preferences and criteria.

A service based on internet technology that allows users to communicate and socialize remotely.

Grouping of individuals into specific groups or communities.

Communicating by using social networking sites.

A social network is a social structure comprising various nodes, which generally represent individuals or organizations, that are tied together by one or more specific types of interdependency, e.g. common values, shared visions, exchange of ideas, mutual financial benefit, trade, friendship/kinship, or even dislike and conflict. In the context of the Web 2.0 movement, the term is commonly used to refer to Web sites like MySpace, Facebook, Ning, Friendster, and LinkedIn, which attract and support networks of people and facilitate connections between them for social and professional purposes. The “blogosphere” (a term used to describe the cultural and social milieu surrounding Web logging and its users) may also be viewed as an example of an online social network. See also Web 2.0, social software.

Grouping of individuals into specific groups or communities.

A practice of establishing online communities by making connections through social media sites.

Grouping of individuals into specific groups or communities.

The use of dedicated applications and websites to interact with other users of the same interests.

Social structure consisting of individuals and organizations connected by one or more types of relationships, sharing common values and objectives. The main characteristics that define them are: 1) Opening and porosity, which enable horizontal and not hierarchical relationships among participants; 2) self-generation of its own design. The online social networks can operate at different levels, for example, social networks (Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Twitter and others), highly focused networking in professional interests (LinkedIn), among others.

Social networking refers to using cloud-based social network to facilitate learning. Social networking is a social structure that reflects the interrelationship between individuals, groups, organizations, or even entire societies (e.g., social units). As an important aspect in game-based learning, social networking has been integrated into learning games to maintain personal and social connections with their people in the community.

To link people sharing mutual interests on the web.

Social networking websites are seen largely as a way for people to socialize and communicate with their friends. However they are much more than just places to socialize. They can be used to bring together people with common interests or of particular age groups, from young children to senior citizens. These websites are used by individuals to share information about themselves, find friends, create career networks, find jobs, get information about a topic of interest, share photos, join interest groups, follow politics, and much more. Some examples of social networking sites are Facebook, Myspace, Classmates.com, LinkedIn.com, Twitter, LiveJournal and Ning (where users can create their own social networking sites)

The use of ICT, particularly the WWW, to connect people who share common interests. Examples of successful social networking sites include MySpace, YouTube and Facebook.

An internet enabled social communication network that helps people share personal information and communicate more efficiently with friends, family, and co-workers.

A system of interconnected computers (and their users) who exchange social information through a form of technology.

The use of dedicated websites or media applications used to interact with others, or to find people with similar interest to oneself.

A term to describe websites that allow people to join a social network and exchange information with their online friends.

Social networking is the use of internet-based platform for the purpose of connecting to people you may or may not know for personal or professional purpose.

A website is an online resource for building virtual social networks communities of individuals with common interests or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others.

Practice of expanding social contacts by creating connections through individuals and/or social media.

The process of connecting individuals via friends, relatives, and acquaintances—a person’s social network.

The grouping of individuals into special interests groups. Traditionally social networking required face-to-face communication, but now it is developed and realized online.

This is the platform for people to connect, interact and discuss with one other.

A phenomenon described as a community consisting of a collection of individuals and the linkages among them.

A Web-based information-sharing service that allows individuals to construct a profile within a restricted system, delineate the users with whom they want to share a connection, and view and navigate a list of connections and those made by others within the system. The primary feature of social network sites is that users are enabled to publicly declare their social networks. Myspace ( http://www.myspace.com ) is the most popular example of a social network.

Social networking is a technology enabled means to develop communities based upon shared interests. Social networks utilize one or more of an array of mediums such as blogs, messaging, discussion threads and others. Social networking sites are typical examples of web 2.0 applications.

A social structure established through the use of Internet communication technologies by the people who share the same value, vision, task objectives, ideas, etc.

The term is used here for desribing users of social network services, which are applications for building online communities of people who share interests, preferences or activities. Typically, social networking makes use of web based tools which provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services.

Refers to the use of internet-based social media sites to stay connected with friends, family, colleagues, customers, or clients.

The use of internet to make information about yourself available to other people especially people you share an interest with to send messages to them.

an inter-connected group of online users / user communities