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[-] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Discussion boards existed way before what people consider 'social media' (MySpace, Facebook, and the list goes on), places where people talk not about a topic at hand but themselves. If you consider ALL OF IT social media then I guess I agree, sure. And live streams about themselves and not, like, an open discussion about a given topic is certainly what one would consider 'social media', but like I said it's all about what you do with the platform.

[-] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Because we didn't have the concept of "social media" before those sites. Or at least they weren't popular enough to get a new category dedicated to them.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Those were pretty much social sites using text with a tiny bit of media (occasional images).

Social media has a big emphasis on the media part, with video clips and images and so on for starting most of the discussions. Twitter started off mostly text and kind of became social media based on the screenshot I have seen of it.

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