Are You Making #Social Networking Part of Your Livelihood?

The first time Merriam-Webster editors could find social networking being used was over fifteen (15) years ago. Today, social networking is so commonplace that the phrase has gained entry into the Merriam-Webster 2014 collegiate dictionary.

Congratulations, social networking!

I’m not sure why this took so long.

In the words of Merriam-Webster’s Editor-at-Large Peter Sokolowski:

So many of these new words show the impact of online connectivity to our lives and livelihoods.

How are you making social networking part of your livelihood?

Thanks to TIME correspondent, Katy Steinmetz, for writing # Selfie, Steampunk, Catfish: See This Year’s New Dictionary Words.

Let’s also give a nod to Wikipedia for defining social networking long before Merriam-Webster.

Just saying’…

Since the word — selfie — also walks into the “big red book” in 2014, here’s me under The Spanish Arch (Irish: An Póirse Spáinneach) in Galway, Ireland earlier this month.

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