Idk if you’re being deliberately being obtuse, but the gay community uses these apps a lot as social media. They have group chats, friend lists, friend only conversations, video chat, and all that jazz.
Several governments and charities have also partnered with these hookup apps to disseminate updates about current events and news in the gay community, such as pertaining to STI prevention and management strategies, legislative changes, and advice on how not to get hate crimed when going out.
I guess “I’ve never used it” is being deliberately obtuse, but if “group chats, friend lists, and conversations” are all it takes to be social media, then texting is a social media account. If “video chat” is social media, then FaceTime is a social media account.
I don’t know if you’re being deliberately obtuse but obviously these are not social media like Facebook, Myspace, or even YouTube. They’re just chat. And that’s not social media by any contemporary definition.
I was listing specific examples which appealed to your non standard definition of social media, but you’ve moved the goalposts, and ignored the extra features such as STI services that even typical social media often lack. Anyway, it seems that you have a narrow and non contemporary definition of social media. It is simply any form of mass communication over the internet, including but not limited to email mailing lists, BBS, or even “just chat” because surprise, people use these systems as social media.
I’ve never moved the goalposts. I’ve held the entire time that social media is a platform for sharing the ongoings of your life with friends or public via a single post.
By your definition, writing your phone number on a bathroom stall is social media. By your definition, literally every single account based service on the Internet is social media.
A term should mean something. It shouldn’t just be a fancy team for “oh, you know, everything ever”
Grindr isn’t social media. Does it have a wall where your post things to followers? I thought it was just dating.
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It’s a hookup app. It has features where you post your nudes to anyone in your vicinity, not just followers
So it’s not social. There are no public or even all-friends-only conversations or updates about current events
Idk if you’re being deliberately being obtuse, but the gay community uses these apps a lot as social media. They have group chats, friend lists, friend only conversations, video chat, and all that jazz.
Several governments and charities have also partnered with these hookup apps to disseminate updates about current events and news in the gay community, such as pertaining to STI prevention and management strategies, legislative changes, and advice on how not to get hate crimed when going out.
I guess “I’ve never used it” is being deliberately obtuse, but if “group chats, friend lists, and conversations” are all it takes to be social media, then texting is a social media account. If “video chat” is social media, then FaceTime is a social media account.
I don’t know if you’re being deliberately obtuse but obviously these are not social media like Facebook, Myspace, or even YouTube. They’re just chat. And that’s not social media by any contemporary definition.
I was listing specific examples which appealed to your non standard definition of social media, but you’ve moved the goalposts, and ignored the extra features such as STI services that even typical social media often lack. Anyway, it seems that you have a narrow and non contemporary definition of social media. It is simply any form of mass communication over the internet, including but not limited to email mailing lists, BBS, or even “just chat” because surprise, people use these systems as social media.
Social media | Definition, History, Examples, & Facts | Britannica - https://www.britannica.com/topic/social-media
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I’ve never moved the goalposts. I’ve held the entire time that social media is a platform for sharing the ongoings of your life with friends or public via a single post.
By your definition, writing your phone number on a bathroom stall is social media. By your definition, literally every single account based service on the Internet is social media.
A term should mean something. It shouldn’t just be a fancy team for “oh, you know, everything ever”
grindr is more of a hookup to have sex, much like tinder is.