Web definition for social networking

Social Networking -

Social networking is the practice of expanding the number of one's business and/or social contacts by making connections through individuals. While social networking has gone on almost as long as societies have existed, the unparallel potential of the internet to promote such connections is only now being fully recognized and exploited, through Web-based groups. The six degree of separation concept goes along with social networking.

You join one of the sites and invite people you know to join. Those people invite their contacts to join, who in turn invite their contacts to join, and the process repeats for each person.

Techtarget.com. March 18, 2008. Whatis.com. Retrieved from http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci942884.html