[jachee]

> Alternative mediums of social media are pretty interesting

Just a heads-up: “media” is already the plural of “medium”. It gets kind of lost in today’s “social media” an (my least favorite[0]) “multimedia”. Each site is a social medium, and only collectively do they get the more-familiar term.

0: “Multimedia” should actually be “multi-medium” Just like when there’s transport that involves more than one mode, its a “multi-mode” transport, and not “multi-modes”. I realize this is a weird nit to pick, but I figured I’d share.

[exodust]

Strong disagree regarding "multimedia". A "book" is the medium, but a passage of text from that book is a piece of "media". This piece of media might end up in an animated illustration that forms part of the "multimedia" presentation.

The difference with "multi-mode transport" is the end result involves more than one type of transport - train and truck. But a "multimedia" presentation ends up as one thing, such as a CD-ROM from the early days of multimedia.

[jazzyjackson]

I don't know, I feel like this is a fish vs fishes situation. ie fish is already plural, but fishes is still, like, superplural - different varieties of fish is fishes.

Social media is a collective noun, I feel like if you want to talk about plural distinct kinds of media there's nothing wrong with saying "mediums"