diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9649ec5..049734d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.htm
 ## [v1.7.3] - 2019-12-19
 
 [#18356] Bug Fixed: Social networking ... error in parsing URLs ending with "\)"
+[#26540] Removed social networking library dependency 
 
 ## [v1.7.2] - 2019-12-19
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 03dbdbd..64955dd 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -43,9 +43,16 @@
 		</dependencies>
 	</dependencyManagement>
 	<dependencies>
+		<!--needs to be provided -->
 		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.gcube.portal</groupId>
-			<artifactId>social-networking-library</artifactId>
+			<groupId>org.gcube.social-networking</groupId>
+			<artifactId>social-service-model</artifactId>
+			<version>[1.2.0-SNAPSHOT, 2.0.0)</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.gcube.social-networking</groupId>
+			<artifactId>social-service-client</artifactId>
+			<version>[2.0.0-SNAPSHOT, 3.0.0)</version>
 			<scope>provided</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/gcube/social_networking/socialutillibrary/Utils.java b/src/main/java/org/gcube/social_networking/socialutillibrary/Utils.java
index 0893a43..c1d147d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/gcube/social_networking/socialutillibrary/Utils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/gcube/social_networking/socialutillibrary/Utils.java
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import org.gcube.common.portal.GCubePortalConstants;
 import org.gcube.common.portal.PortalContext;
 import org.gcube.common.scope.impl.ScopeBean;
 import org.gcube.common.scope.impl.ScopeBean.Type;
-import org.gcube.portal.databook.client.GCubeSocialNetworking;
+import org.gcube.social_networking.socialnetworking.model.client.GCubeSocialNetworking;
 import org.gcube.portlets.widgets.pickitem.shared.ItemBean;
 import org.gcube.vomanagement.usermanagement.GroupManager;
 import org.gcube.vomanagement.usermanagement.RoleManager;
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/gcube/socialnetworking/socialtoken/HashTagToken.java b/src/main/java/org/gcube/socialnetworking/socialtoken/HashTagToken.java
index 73caff1..4a57edd 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/gcube/socialnetworking/socialtoken/HashTagToken.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/gcube/socialnetworking/socialtoken/HashTagToken.java
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 package org.gcube.socialnetworking.socialtoken;
 
-import org.gcube.portal.databook.client.GCubeSocialNetworking;
+import org.gcube.social_networking.socialnetworking.model.client.GCubeSocialNetworking;
 import org.gcube.socialnetworking.tokenization.Token;
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/gcube/socialnetworking/socialtoken/SocialMessageParser.java b/src/main/java/org/gcube/socialnetworking/socialtoken/SocialMessageParser.java
index a089cc1..039ac82 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/gcube/socialnetworking/socialtoken/SocialMessageParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/gcube/socialnetworking/socialtoken/SocialMessageParser.java
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 
 import org.gcube.common.portal.GCubePortalConstants;
-import org.gcube.portal.databook.client.GCubeSocialNetworking;
+import org.gcube.social_networking.socialnetworking.model.client.GCubeSocialNetworking;
 import org.gcube.portlets.widgets.pickitem.shared.ItemBean;
 import org.gcube.socialnetworking.tokenization.GCubeStringTokenizer;
 import org.gcube.socialnetworking.tokenization.Token;