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.
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?
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.
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)
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:
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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)
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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)
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When you are all caught up I won’t be here to finish whatever it is you are trying for here.
If social media is bad for your brain why is lemmy, a social media site, not?
Message boars are not social media.
How did you come to that conclusion?
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?
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.
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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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When you are all caught up I won’t be here to finish whatever it is you are trying for here.