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Re:Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate s... by trollbridge on Monday June 08, 2026 @10:36AM (#48445986)
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.
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Re:Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate s... by fluffybucktsnek on Monday June 08, 2026 @01:13PM (#48448092)
That might imply USENET and mailing lists to be forms or primitive forms of social media.
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Re:Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate s... by andoando on Monday June 08, 2026 @05:23PM (#48452327)
Why do people argue so hard on semantics? Its social media in some ways and its not in others
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Re:Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate s... by trumpdong on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @08:17AM (#48460120)
Why can't those things be social media?
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Re:Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate s... by Atheros on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @05:23PM (#48467951)
Because 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'.
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Re:Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate s... by trumpdong on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @08:30PM (#48469664)
That's a social network
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