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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Social networking site and business oriented social networking site

Hi,

I looked at the wiki page of facebook and linked in.
For facebook it has social networking site.
for linked in it has business oriented social networking site.

My friend says they are equalent.
He said, It is important when reading a sentence to determine what the noun is.

So according to English, do they have the same meaning? Can some one just ignore the qualifier business oriented in front of social networking for Linked in and say they are basically social networking sites?

Thanks in advance
  

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Hi, So according to English, do they have the same meaning? Can some one just ignore the qualifier business oriented in front of social networking for Linked in and say they are basically social networking sites? Basically, the word 'social' is related to the word 'society', and business is one aspect of what society does.

— Clive

  • Hi, So according to English, do they have the same meaning?
  • Can some one just ignore the qualifier business oriented in front of social networking for Linked in and say they are basically social networking sites?
  • Basically, the word 'social' is related to the word 'society', and business is one aspect of what society does.
  • However, when we use the word 'social' in everyday English it is usually not related to business.
  • eg Tom went to a social event.
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Hi,

So according to English, do they have the same meaning? Can some one just ignore the qualifier business oriented in front of social networking for Linked in and say they are basically social networking sites?

Basically, the word 'social' is related to the word 'society', and business is one aspect of what society does.

However, when we use the word 'social' in every
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