• Aniki 🌱🌿
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      Because message boards have existed both in physical and online for a god damn millenia before fucking facebook and myspace were a whisper in the balls of the creator’s fathers. I have no fucking idea who any of you clown shoes are and I don’t fucking care either.

      Children playing show and tell is more social media than online message boards.

      • @Arkouda@lemmy.ca
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        -23 months ago

        Because message boards have existed both in physical and online for a god damn millenia before fucking facebook and myspace were a whisper in the balls of the creator’s fathers. I have no fucking idea who any of you clown shoes are and I don’t fucking care either.

        Children playing show and tell is more social media than online message boards.

        Cool story.

        Social Media, noun, forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos)

        https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social media

        Social Media, Noun, websites and computer programs that allow people to communicate and share information, opinions, pictures, videos, etc. on the internet, especially social networking websites:

        https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/social-media

        Have a good day.

        • Aniki 🌱🌿
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          And? I can post definitions too! Dictionaries are not that difficult to use.

          message board noun

          1: a board or sign on which messages or notices are displayed

          an electronic message board

          2: a public electronic forum that allows users to post or read messages or to post or download files and that is accessed by computer over a network (such as the Internet)

          https://www.oed.com/dictionary/message-board_n?tl=true

          First known to be used in the 1700s.

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            -23 months ago

            And? I can post definitions too! Dictionaries are not that difficult to use.

            message board noun 1: a board or sign on which messages or notices are displayed an electronic message board 2: a public electronic forum that allows users to post or read messages or to post or download files and that is accessed by computer over a network (such as the Internet)

            True, you can post definitions and demonstrate that dictionaries are very easy to use.

            Try reading and understanding those definitions next.

            When you are all caught up I won’t be here to finish whatever it is you are trying for here.

    • @DRStamm@lemmy.world
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      03 months ago

      Because social media is just that: media. They’re platforms for ads and marketing that are more akin to broadcast media with a parasocial interactive twist. Contrast that with social networking which facilitates connections between actual people.

      At some point in the last two decades, those distinctions have blurred, often to great shareholder benefit.

      • @Arkouda@lemmy.ca
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        Because social media is just that: media. They’re platforms for ads and marketing that are more akin to broadcast media with a parasocial interactive twist. Contrast that with social networking which facilitates connections between actual people.

        At some point in the last two decades, those distinctions have blurred, often to great shareholder benefit.

        That is one way to say a lot while saying nothing at all, and it is weird how many people want to pretend they aren’t using social media while using social media.

        What are you doing to make “connections between actual people”? How is that different from anyone else using a different platform?

        Lemmy is not social media to you because there is no one using it to advertise, market, or broadcast themselves to the greater population?

        Or is it because there is no “media” available on the website?

        Or is it just because you say so?