Wait until you hear about people calling chat apps like WhatsApp social media.
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ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
YouTube is not really ‘social media’ unless by that one means ‘audiovisual media created by non-corporate entities, fellow members of society’. I guess it can be if all you watch is GRWM and ‘daily updates’ videos…
Opisek@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
In a society that uses terms such as “fake news” and “peaceful war”, I’m not surprised words have lost meaning in all areas, lol.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Or fucking Venmo
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
“If you can comment on it, it’s social media.”
I can comment on how stupid that is, but that doesn’t make it social media. The term was invented to describe the likes of Facebook, and it’s predecessors and … Postdecessors. Antecedents? No that’s the same. Successors. There we go. Had to work that out.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
There are plenty of smaller content creators that are interactive with the comment section. Then there is also just the comment section like we’re doing right now. There are also live streams that get interactive as well. It’s absolutely a social media platform.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Discussion boards existed way before what people consider ‘social media’ (MySpace, Facebook, and the list goes on), places where people talk not about a topic at hand but themselves. If you consider ALL OF IT social media then I guess I agree, sure.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Those were pretty much social sites using text with a tiny bit of media (occasional images).
Social media has a big emphasis on the media part, with video clips and images and so on for starting most of the discussions. Twitter started off mostly text and kind of became social media based on the screenshot I have seen of it.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
And I think social media revolved heavily around people sharing the mundanity of their everyday life with the world, and in my experience, that was very rarely the point of message boards or forums.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Because we didn’t have the concept of “social media” before those sites. Or at least they weren’t popular enough to get a new category dedicated to them.