Using physical meetings or online media to make new contacts (e.g. for dating or business purposes), to participate in self-selecting communities, to collaborate, to maintain a large friend network (including finding lost acquaintances, keeping in touch with distant friends, etc.), and various other purposes. C2's Wiki is a form of social networking. So are Friendster, MySpace, Tribe, LinkedIn, Ryze, etc. (all based in general modus operandi on the now-defunct sixdegrees.com). So are singles mixers, church picnics and parties. The term, however, is mostly used as shorthand for ''online'' social networking. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking for a lot more information on the topic.

What makes SocialNetworking so revolutionary is that the form of the media does a lot to ImproveTheDialectic.
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