When I was able to work, I liked to pretend that Reddit - which was still reasonable back then - wasn’t social media to get around the rule that social media wasn’t allowed. I had intended to explain that I thought Facebook, LinkedIn and possibly Twitter were social. Since I didn’t have friends or follows on Reddit, and since I was anonymous, clearly it didn’t count.
I was never called out on it.
But I definitely thought, and still think, that there’s definitely a social element to it. I mean, what’s happening right now?
This isn’t Reddit, of course, but it amounts to the same thing. I’m responding to something written by a human who might actually read it. Conversations happen in the comments. As far as Internet goes, that’s social.
Thats a good rule of thumb i think it is social in a sense like a forum or BBS is social in that it’s a communication platform but its not a parasocial platform like twitter, Facebook, instagram, and even Mastodon etc.
When I was able to work, I liked to pretend that Reddit - which was still reasonable back then - wasn’t social media to get around the rule that social media wasn’t allowed. I had intended to explain that I thought Facebook, LinkedIn and possibly Twitter were social. Since I didn’t have friends or follows on Reddit, and since I was anonymous, clearly it didn’t count.
I was never called out on it.
But I definitely thought, and still think, that there’s definitely a social element to it. I mean, what’s happening right now?
This isn’t Reddit, of course, but it amounts to the same thing. I’m responding to something written by a human who might actually read it. Conversations happen in the comments. As far as Internet goes, that’s social.
Thats a good rule of thumb i think it is social in a sense like a forum or BBS is social in that it’s a communication platform but its not a parasocial platform like twitter, Facebook, instagram, and even Mastodon etc.