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Comment threads are not “social media”, no matter how badly anyone wants to redefine that they are. They date back to the 1970s on USENET and mailing lists.
by trollbridge 5mo ago
Comment threads are not “social media”, no matter how badly anyone wants to redefine that they are. They date back to the 1970s on USENET and mailing lists.
- fluffybucktsnek 5mo agoThat might imply USENET and mailing lists to be forms or primitive forms of social media.
- andoando 5mo agoWhy do people argue so hard on semantics? Its social media in some ways and its not in others
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- trumpdong 5mo agoWhy can't those things be social media?
- Atheros 5mo agoBecause the phrase 'social media' was coined to describe a very specific thing: people who know each other in real life communicating online about things happening to them in real life. There were and are plenty of other words you can use to accurately describe other things, like 'chat room', 'forum', or 'link aggregator'.
- trumpdong 5mo agoThat's a social network