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.
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ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 16 hours agoDiscussion 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.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 15 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 25 minutes 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.