I guess for me, when the term "social media" was coined, it was about friends, while YouTube was already more parasocial and more like short segments on broadca

I guess for me, when the term "social media" was coined, it was about friends, while YouTube was already more parasocial and more like short segments on broadcast TV (with at that time a comment section that seemed to promote nothing worth reading). Things move on after perceptions have crystalised.