social network

See also: Social Network

English

Noun

social network (plural social networks)

1. (collective, sociology) A network of personal or business contacts, especially as facilitated by social networking on the Internet.
   • 1989, Deborah Belle, Children's Social Networks and Social Supports, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 1:

     The social network of interest in this volume is the personal social network that is centered on a particular child. Definitions of social network draw attention to the ties or linkages that connect individuals (and sometimes groups or institutions)—linkages that can be conduits for diverse resources.

   • 2023, Teddy Cruz, Fonna Forman, Socializing Architecture: Top Down / Bottom Up, page 60:

     Civicizing public spaces is an antidote to marginalization and exclusion, and it requires that we restore linkages between municipalities, social networks, cultural institutions and communities.

2. (Internet) A service allowing users to manage and interact with their network of friends or contacts on the Internet. (Called a social network application in precise usage that reserves social network to its original sense.)
   • 2011, Charu C. Aggarwal, Social Network Data Analytics, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page xiii:

     The trends in recent years have focussed on online social networks, in which the social network is enabled as an internet application. Some examples of such networks are Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace.

Translations

network of personal or business contacts

• Albanian: rrjet shoqëror m
• Arabic: شَبَكَة اِجْتِمَاعِيَّة f (šabaka ijtimāʕiyya)
• Armenian: սոցցանց (socʻcʻancʻ), սոցիալական ցանց (socʻialakan cʻancʻ)
• Azerbaijani: sosial şəbəkə
• Belarusian: сацыя́льная се́тка f (sacyjálʹnaja sjétka), сацсе́тка f (sacsjétka)
• Bulgarian: социа́лна мре́жа f (sociálna mréža), соцмре́жа f (socmréža)
• Burmese: လူမှုကွန်ရက် (luhmu.kwanrak)
• Catalan: xarxa social (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 社會網絡／社会网络 (se⁵ wui^6-2 mong⁵ lok³)

  Mandarin: 社會網絡／社会网络 (shèhuì wǎngluò)

• Czech: sociální síť (cs) f
• Danish: socialt netværk n
• Dutch: sociaal netwerk n
• Esperanto: interkona retejo, socia retejo
• Estonian: sotsiaalvõrgustik
• Finnish: sosiaalinen verkosto
• French: réseau social (fr) m
• Galician: rede social f
• Georgian: სოციალური ქსელი (socialuri kseli)
• German: soziales Netzwerk (de) n
• Greek: κοινωνικό δίκτυο (el) n (koinonikó díktyo)
• Hebrew: רֶשֶׁת חֶבְרָתִית (he) f (réshet khevratít)
• Hindi: सोशल नेटवर्क m (sośal neṭvark), सामाजिक जालक्रम m (sāmājik jālakram)
• Hungarian: közösségi hálózat (hu)
• Ido: reto sociala
• Indonesian: jejaring sosial
• Italian: social network (it) m, rete sociale (it) f, sociorete f (informal)
• Japanese: 社会的ネットワーク (しゃかいてきネットワーク, shakaiteki nettowāku), 社会ネットワーク (しゃかいネットワーク, shakai nettowāku), ソーシャルネットワーク (sōsharu nettowāku)
• Kazakh: әлеуметтік желі (äleumettık jelı)
• Korean: 사회 연결망(社會連結網) (sahoe yeon'gyeolmang), 소셜 네트워크 (sosyeol neteuwokeu)
• Kyrgyz: социалдык тармак (sotsialdık tarmak)
• Latvian: sociālais tīkls m
• Lithuanian: socialinis tinklas m
• Macedonian: соција́лна мрежа f (socijálna mreža)
• Malay: rangkaian sosial
• Maori: kōtuinga pāpori
• Mingrelian: სოციალური რშვილი (socialuri ršvili)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sosialt nettverk (no) n

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: شَبَکِهٔ اِجْتِماعی (šabake-ye ejtemâ'i)

• Polish: sieć społeczna f
• Portuguese: rede social (pt) f
• Romanian: rețea socială f
• Russian: социа́льная сеть (ru) f (sociálʹnaja setʹ), соцсе́ть (ru) f (socsétʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: друштвена мрежа f

  Roman: društvena mreža f

• Slovak: sociálna sieť f
• Slovene: socialno omrežje n, družbeno omrežje n
• Spanish: red social (es) f
• Swedish: socialt nätverk n
• Tagalog: ulnunging kabalagan
• Tajik: шабакаи иҷтимоӣ (šabaka-yi ijtimoi)
• Thai: เครือข่ายสังคม (krʉʉa-kàai-sǎng-kom)
• Turkish: sosyal ağ
• Ukrainian: соціа́льна мере́жа f (sociálʹna meréža), соцмере́жа (uk) f (socmeréža)
• Urdu: سوشَل نیٹ وَرْک m (sośal neṭ vark), اجتماعی شبکہ (ijtimā'ī śabaka), سماجی رابطہ کاری (samājī rābita-kārī)
• Uzbek: ijtimoiy tarmoq
• Vietnamese: mạng lưới xã hội

social network service on the Internet

• Belarusian: сацыя́льная се́тка f (sacyjálʹnaja sjétka), сацсе́тка f (sacsjétka)
• Catalan: xarxa social (ca) f
• French: réseau social (fr) m
• German: Social Network n, soziales Netzwerk (de) n
• Italian: social network (it) m, rete sociale (it) f, sociorete f (informal)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: شَبَکِهٔ اِجْتِماعی (šabake-ye ejtemâ'i)

• Polish: sieć społecznościowa f
• Portuguese: rede social (pt) f
• Russian: социа́льная сеть (ru) f (sociálʹnaja setʹ), соцсе́ть (ru) f (socsétʹ)
• Swahili: mtandao wa kijamii
• Ukrainian: соціа́льна мере́жа f (sociálʹna meréža), соцмере́жа (uk) f (socmeréža)

Further reading

• social network on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• social networking service on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English social network.

Noun

social network m (invariable)

1. social network

   Synonyms: rete sociale, social

   • 2014, Francesco Tissoni, Social network, Maggioli Editore, →ISBN, page 79:

     Ogni giorno, in ogni parte del globo, oltre un miliardo di persone, da dispositivi mobili o da computer, accedono ai social network: e, da qualche anno a questa parte, proprio i social network sono fra i siti più visitati al mondo.

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Further reading

• rete sociale on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it