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Russian uses different prepositions than English for many abstract “places.”
With websites, platforms, social networks, Russian very often uses «в» (in), treating them as a kind of “space” you are inside:
- в этой социальной сети – in this social network
- в Фейсбуке, в Инстаграме, в Твиттере
«на» is used with some platforms too (e.g. на YouTube, на форуме), but for “social network” as a general noun, «в социальной сети» is the normal choice.
So the Russian pattern is: “in this social network”, not “on this social network”, even though English says “on.”