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The importance of Names and how people on average don't really think about what the name is telling you. (lemmy.world)
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I was just thinking about the word social media as a term answer how it relates to regular media.

Like what is regular media? it's someone that is paid to entertain you for money or influence you for people that pay them for power.

Now the word social media if it relates to old media what would it be at face value. It's a person that is paid to make you feel like you have a social connection with them for money influence you for people that pay them that want power.

Like what was social connections on the internet before the rise of social media.

It was forums and if we look at that word what is it as face value from the word itself its meeting or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged.

Ideas to be exchanged everyone was equal there was no media personalities no popularity contests. No followers just a group of people sharing ideas around a common interest.

How off base am I? did I miss anything in my reasoning here?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I think the term “social” here refers to one’s peers. It’s the same idea behind the term “YouTube”. It’s a play on the term “boob tube” which refers to the television. So instead of showing you boobs, YouTube is supposed to be “TV about you”.

It’s the same idea as the brand name FUBU, which stands for “For Us, By Us”.

“Social” here is the same concept as in the word “socialism”. In this context, the word means “of the people”. Same as in the phrase “social causes” as a term for charity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

In a nutshell, social interactions on the internet became “social media” when Sand Hill Road venture capital got involved to monetize our social interactions.