Not so much about technology as about being human

OK so I am already changing my definition of social networking.
New updated version:

Social networking – when people communicate with each other around a common goal or interest. 

This may be done with or without technology or physical contact. 

Why the change? 

It had never occurred to me that social networking is not dependent on technology.  People have been doing it for centuries.  We are social animals after all and will form groups based on commonalities – friendships, sporting clubs, sewing circles, choirs, drinking buddies.  Technology has given us another mean of doing this without having to be limited by geography or language.  So we’re just doing what we’ve always been doing, but now the tools exist to do it on a much bigger scale.

Now it makes a bit more sense.