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by bamfly 1074 days ago
No feed. No social network. Et c.

Reasonable people disagree over whether it's appropriate to label any piece of software in which two or more people interact "social media". I tend to think it renders the term uselessly broad.
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jacquesm 1074 days ago
Reasonable people know how to use a dictionary:

"websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking"

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bamfly 1074 days ago
Right. Because some people use it that way and dictionaries have (not inappropriately!) leaned strongly descriptivist for decades. They should have such a definition in them.

Meanwhile, I'm not sure what about my post prompted you to jump to suggesting I'm an imbecile.

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jacquesm 1074 days ago
> Meanwhile, I'm not sure what about my post prompted you to jump to suggesting I'm an imbecile.

If that's your take I can't stop you but it's just a play on your own wording.

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