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I wouldn’t. It’s not social without a social network. A social network implies that we are not all anonymous strangers. It implies we know people’s real names a
by irrational 4y ago
I wouldn’t. It’s not social without a social network. A social network implies that we are not all anonymous strangers. It implies we know people’s real names and other personal information about them. To the best of my knowledge, I have never interacted with the same person twice on HN (or Reddit). That’s basically the opposite of social or a network. When everyone is anonymous, and might even be a bot, it isn’t social media. Mostly because it is not social.
- wilsonnb3 4y agoHacker news is pseudonymous, not anonymous, although I would argue that it would be social media either way. Just because you don’t know the real world identity of the other nodes doesn’t mean that a network doesn’t exist.
- irrational 4y agoBy that argument, Amazon is social media. Each item for sale is a post and the comments are the reviews and the questions/answers.