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Does Resetera count as social media?
- Thread starter Lant_War
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Because Facebook and Twitter have an audience of hundreds of millions?
I don't really care either way, but if the way you use one tool is so much different from the way you use another tool, what is the use of calling them the same thing?
I'm basically inactive on FB, totally inactive on Twitter, and use Instagram in a wildly different way than I use Era. This is where I do discussion and debating online, not try to maintain friendships with people I used to know, or let family across the country know I'm ok.
Definitely a type of social media. I can't imagine arguing about that unless you're trying to create some pedantic, illusory distinctions and/or because you don't want to associate something you enjoy with a perceived "stigma" of social media.
The term Social Media for me is always connected with the idea of a personalized feed, usually one that is built from accounts you can follow. And just how you follow other accounts on Social Media, you also cultivate your own account(s) and have people follow you. This trait is imo precisely the "Social" in Social Media. The Twitter feed of two random users will likely be radically different from each other.
Era (or any other forum for that matter) doesn't have a personalized feed, everyone sees the same forums with the same threads. I don't follow accounts on here. I don't curate my own account.
Which is why I don't consider Era "Social Media". That doesn't mean you don't socialize / interact with people on here, heck, that's the point of a forum. But for me the term "Social Media" is more narrow in its definition.
Era (or any other forum for that matter) doesn't have a personalized feed, everyone sees the same forums with the same threads. I don't follow accounts on here. I don't curate my own account.
Which is why I don't consider Era "Social Media". That doesn't mean you don't socialize / interact with people on here, heck, that's the point of a forum. But for me the term "Social Media" is more narrow in its definition.
It's a question of whether forums and messageboards are social media which I definitely do not think they are. Feel much more foreign.
To me? No, because I come here to peruse and will occasionally post, but don't care to have a discussion with you guys really.
The word "forum" is literally just the same definition as "social media". The latter is just the modern day buzzword for it. All the people here who talk on their high horse about how they quit Twitter/FB/Instagram are no better off hanging around here.
Definition of forum
a : the marketplace or public place forming the center of judicial and public business
b : a public meeting place for open discussion
c : a medium (such as a newspaper or online service) of open discussion or expression of ideas
Definition of forum
a : the marketplace or public place forming the center of judicial and public business
b : a public meeting place for open discussion
c : a medium (such as a newspaper or online service) of open discussion or expression of ideas
... You just described the quintessential social media experience.
