you certainly have a high opinion of your own activities, eh?
I agree that the kind of “social media” that is popular among the general public (i.e. sharing information about one’s own life) is fairly stupid. But Lemmy too is “social media”, any support forum is “social media”, even wikis are “social media”, and I do not think that those are stupid things to do, at all.
I actually dislike the term “social media” in the first place, only used it above for convenience…
I (seriously) discovered that there were websites that allowed the general public to participate in the mid-2000s when I was a preteen. I immediately liked that concept and started to participate on such sites (first forums, later wikis) myself and found that fun.
Then around 2008, everyone started to insist that such sites were now called “social media” and the most important ones were Facebook and Twitter, both of which I hadn’t heard of until around that time, and both of which didn’t seem like very fun or appealing places at all.
Now I keep hearing about the horrible things apparently caused by “social media” and wonder, what do you even mean, what could possibly be wrong with web forums.
support forum is “social media”, even wikis are “social media”,
Completely disagree. I don’t see any social component here. Of course you can say that any resource where one user can leave a message readable by another user is a social media, but… what’s the point? I can write a message on the brick wall and it would be readable by others :)
you certainly have a high opinion of your own activities, eh?
Yes, writing here is almost a complete waste of time. “Almost” because I have one rational reason to continue to do it: I try to improve my English. As soon as Lemmy will stop helping me with that, I will move my attention to something more interesting than arguing with strangers about unimportant things :)
you certainly have a high opinion of your own activities, eh?
I agree that the kind of “social media” that is popular among the general public (i.e. sharing information about one’s own life) is fairly stupid. But Lemmy too is “social media”, any support forum is “social media”, even wikis are “social media”, and I do not think that those are stupid things to do, at all.
That’s like saying caffeine is a drug just like heroin, technically true but there is a big difference
I actually dislike the term “social media” in the first place, only used it above for convenience…
I (seriously) discovered that there were websites that allowed the general public to participate in the mid-2000s when I was a preteen. I immediately liked that concept and started to participate on such sites (first forums, later wikis) myself and found that fun.
Then around 2008, everyone started to insist that such sites were now called “social media” and the most important ones were Facebook and Twitter, both of which I hadn’t heard of until around that time, and both of which didn’t seem like very fun or appealing places at all.
Now I keep hearing about the horrible things apparently caused by “social media” and wonder, what do you even mean, what could possibly be wrong with web forums.
I think you use that “social” term too widely.
Completely disagree. I don’t see any social component here. Of course you can say that any resource where one user can leave a message readable by another user is a social media, but… what’s the point? I can write a message on the brick wall and it would be readable by others :)
Yes, writing here is almost a complete waste of time. “Almost” because I have one rational reason to continue to do it: I try to improve my English. As soon as Lemmy will stop helping me with that, I will move my attention to something more interesting than arguing with strangers about unimportant things :)