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Comment Re:Guilty by omission? (Score 1) 220

I think it's because people have turned the word into something more specific. This is similar to what happened with the word "hacker" which most people use to mean someone that does malicious things on computers and not someone who tinkers around with software. Regardless of what the dictionary says, words can change meaning over time. In this sense most people refer to social media as a network in which one basically has a dedicated audience. You have friends on Facebook, you have followers on Twitter, you have subscribers on Youtube, you have connections on Linkedin etc etc. and these people instantly see all of your activity. Those things really don't exist on forums. (yes some forums have implemented a friends-like feature in their forum software but again that's heavily dependent on the forum software and most of the ones I've seen still don't quite work in the same way that the big networks work)

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