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You are free to pick a different definition. "Permits arguing and procrastination" would make it a pretty big category, including all online forum and chat syst
by incompatible 6y ago
You are free to pick a different definition. "Permits arguing and procrastination" would make it a pretty big category, including all online forum and chat systems back to the Usenet / BBS and maybe CompuServe / Prodigy days (I don't know enough about the last two).
- MattRix 6y agouh yeah, those things are absolutely social media as well
- incompatible 6y agoUsenet seemed more social than HN, as I remember it from the 1990s. You'd go back to the same groups, and see the same people posting. On HN, I don't usually see any name I remember.
- the_af 6y agoI regularly see names I remember on HN: tptacek, pron, dragonwriter, lmm, coldtea, etc. It's not exactly the same as contacts on Facebook, though it's closer to Reddit. Definitely social media.