The term doesn’t have to mean what the literal words on their own do, or apply to everything that the individual words might, taken in their own. [edit] and in

The term doesn’t have to mean what the literal words on their own do, or apply to everything that the individual words might, taken in their own. [edit] and in this case the term is far more useful if it is not as expansive as you suggest. We’d just need another term, then, to describe the kind of thing people usually mean by “social media”.