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Do Telegram and other chat apps count as social media? In my mind they are separate but I could be wrong?

• birracerveza 4y ago
  Kind of. The difference is that with Telegram you are mostly required to actively participate in your network, directly sending messages/media to a specific person/group (YMMV obviously), whereas with "traditional" social media you put your contents out there, which, depending on the algorithm, may or may not be seen by your followers or the platform's userbase, with a much more passive engagement model where users can consume content without ever putting some out themselves, thus much more vulnerable to algorithm-driven user engagement exploits. Discord is also very similar to Telegram conceptually, but very different at the same time because of the role it fulfills. Different tools, with different properties, for different needs. Even phone calls can be considered social media! The key is using them responsibly.