If it is not people-to-people based, it’s not a social network. That’s what defines the category and makes it distinct from other forms of interaction. Reddit

If it is not people-to-people based, it’s not a social network. That’s what defines the category and makes it distinct from other forms of interaction. Reddit is a web forum, a form of interaction that predates social networks; they never went away. Reddit is just the best platform yet for creating and hosting them. This form of interaction—short conversations organized by topic—predates even the Web, via newsgroups. It is one of the oldest patterns of interaction on the Internet. For a few people it arguably even predates the Internet, via direct-dial BBS.