social_networking

Social networking services, social networking sites

//define// Social networking services //define// social networking site

Decker and Frank's (2004), for example, discuss of social networking sites as one of the "technology thrusts" in their vision for a social_semantic_desktop.

Internal links social_semantic_desktop: e.g. Decker and Frank (2004)

Acronyms include
 * YASNS** - Yet Another Social Networking Service

References O'Murchu, I., Zhdanova, A. V., & Breslin, J. (2007, forthcoming). Semantic community portals. In A. Tatnall (Ed.), //Encyclopedia of Portal Technologies and Applications// Idea Group Publishing.