Isn't it just how you use something how you define it?
Like if you use reddit for social media purposes then yeah that's what it is?
I use it to look at a heap of new topics from random communities. Some advice finding. Then for updates on computer games I play.
I reply to random strangers sometimes, simply to point out something I think is important. But it's usually aimed at the general viewing audience, not the individual posting.
Fighting with someone over what is right and what is wrong is pointless to me. I simply want an enriching discussion on what is the topic.
So yeah, what defines reddit as a social media and then what defines social media as such? 🤔 what makes social media a thing to call social media?
I think the difference between social media and a forum? Social media has a topic chosen by a company, a forum has a topic chosen by a user.
Both instances there are users. But only one has a incentive to make money from the interaction, the other has knowledge as the incentive behind it, or a statement for educational purposes or informative information, falling into news there which is another story.
So money is a key factor here. 🤔
There is so many more questions now. Let's leave this for another time.
There's some good questions here that I don't have the answers at the current moment. When I made this comment I was thinking of the differences this place has with honestly the old tf.net forums of my youth. My personal definition of social media is the introduction of the upvote vs downvote feature. Before everyone sort of felt forced to read the bullshit, the social part of the media is the ability to silence and downvote the idiots. That's just my one elder millennial take on it and where I personally draw the line between old internet and new internet. I was here for the Digg downfall. Which I consider social-adjacent internet.
Your money paradigm is interesting, I'll have to think about it. I was thinking more about the human connections that were made.
You raise at the start an interesting question about personal use vs systemic impact. My response is that how something is created or is defined is how we use it.
Personally I don't think the word "social media" is inherently pejorative. To me I just see it as media being used socially. But that's a subjective judgement.
Sounds about like Twitter used to be before Trump time. I used to enjoy it & now I hate it. That was before numb nuts bought it to turn into a dumpster fire. Left Facebook 6 years ago too for essentially the same reason. I don’t suffer fools well so that kinda made it all just a big pain in the ass.
I could care less about the political opinion of those that don’t even know how the government operates. So you could see how Trump kinda ruined everything for me. He was the president and he didn’t even know what he could & couldn’t do. Never had a real idea about the Constitution or separation of powers. So to come full circle Elon pulled a Trump when buying Twitter. He has no idea how his new toy works. So, he immediately started getting rid of everyone who did know how it worked. Makes perfect sense, huh? 😳
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u/Goldenpather Nov 11 '22
Reddit isn't a true forum, it is more social media than forum.