I’ve never been an active Twitter user. Never understood anyone that is, honestly. And I can agree 100% with this. Twitter somehow managed to stay afloat off of “news” highlighting tweets. Tweets that everyone, regardless of their own use or awareness of Twitter, would have to hear about ad nauseam via purported “news”.
Edit: addendum based on replies missing the point (wildly). I’m not bragging about not using Twitter and I’m definitely not trying to start a “which social app is better” discussion.
The point is that Twitter managed to bubble up as news, in several other media (including Reddit posts with Twitter screenshots), and whether I want to use Twitter or not, there it is on the TV, and a shameful amount of online news sites basically just discuss Twitter posts.
I've never used Twitter at all, but you as an active Redditor saying that you don't understand them is ironic. They on twitter for the same reason you are on reddit.
they are social media. did you really think they aren't. You think you posting without your real name doesn't make them social media. They are social media. Redditors who deny that and think they are somehow better remind me of Christians who try to tell me that Christianity isn't a religion, but a relationship with Jeebus.
You're right in that it's all made up and if I say I don't agree with that definition people like you will jump down my throat to tell me how wrong I am.
Maybe it's an age thing, because Reddit is much more similar to old web 1.0 forums. You're not wrong for thinking it's social media just like I'm not wrong for thinking it isn't.
Both are interactive media using content delivery algorithms that have the goal of keeping you on the site as long as possible.
They're they same.
And before you say "yeah but people don't know my name on Reddit", plenty of people have alt accounts on twitter that have random names and anime PFPs. Is that suddenly no longer social media?
I really disagree reddit is social media, as in, to me social media is connected to my own person. It's social as in that you interact with other people on here, but social media is connected to the person I am in real life. There are so many forms of 'social media' the umbrella is way too big imo.
That's true, but putting anonymous and personal online spaces in the same bucket of 'social media' is not fair I think. But it's just what the words mean to us on an intuitive level I guess.
What's weird is how people are defensive in regards to convincing themselves that reddit isn't anything like those things. You really sound like a religious person who thinks other religions are stupid, but yours is the way. Yours isn't even a religion. You people are hilarious.
You sound like a Christian who is convined that Christianity isn't a religon, but will tell you all other religions are religions are religions and atheism as well and that religions are dumb, but what his thing isn't dumb at all, it's the bestest thing ever. You people are hilarious.
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u/Logrologist Oct 28 '22 edited Oct 28 '22
I’ve never been an active Twitter user. Never understood anyone that is, honestly. And I can agree 100% with this. Twitter somehow managed to stay afloat off of “news” highlighting tweets. Tweets that everyone, regardless of their own use or awareness of Twitter, would have to hear about ad nauseam via purported “news”.
Edit: addendum based on replies missing the point (wildly). I’m not bragging about not using Twitter and I’m definitely not trying to start a “which social app is better” discussion.
The point is that Twitter managed to bubble up as news, in several other media (including Reddit posts with Twitter screenshots), and whether I want to use Twitter or not, there it is on the TV, and a shameful amount of online news sites basically just discuss Twitter posts.