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Re:Social media may prevent users from reaping creative rewa... by chownie on Monday December 26, 2022 @12:47PM (#34139900)
I kind of object to that use of the term, when social media was coined it clearly did not apply to pseudonymous forum sites.
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Re:Social media may prevent users from reaping creative rewa... by delecti on Monday December 26, 2022 @01:01PM (#34140053)
From what I can tell from a brief googling, the term "social media" was coined (or at least an early documented use was) by an AOL executive in 1997. I think that refutes your assertion. AOL usernames tended to be pretty pseudonymous.
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