Ask Ubuntu is a community driven question and answer website for the Ubuntu operating system, for Ubuntu users and developers.

Members gain reputation based on the community's response (through voting) to their questions and answers. Reputation signifies trust for users in the answers they give. Privileges are given based on reputation levels, with users with the highest reputation having similar privileges to moderators.

While a social network, is a dedicated website or other application which enables users to communicate with each other by posting information, comments, messages, images, etc., about anything and everything, and its not specific for one thing. Also users don't gain any reputation, nor they discuss technical issues in specific.

So no, I don't think that AskUbuntu is a social network in that sense.

^{Some info courtesy of AU}

Ask Ubuntu is a community driven question and answer website for the Ubuntu operating system, for Ubuntu users and developers.

Members gain reputation based on the community's response (through voting) to their questions and answers. Reputation signifies trust for users in the answers they give. Privileges are given based on reputation levels, with users with the highest reputation having similar privileges to moderators.

While a social network, is a dedicated website or other application which enables users to communicate with each other by posting information, comments, messages, images, etc., about anything and everything, and its not specific for one thing. Also users don't gain any reputation, nor they discuss technical issues in specific.

So no, I don't think that Ask Ubuntu is a social network in that sense.

^{Some info courtesy of AU}