What's the point of social media? Also, you're a fucking idiot if you don't think 4chan is social media.
>>946073963>Also, you're a fucking idiot if you don't think 4chan is social media.No loginsNo persistent identityNo voting on comments or threadsThis is an imageboard, anon. Do you think anywhere people talk to other people is social media?
>>946074067> This is an imageboard, anon. Do you think anywhere people talk to other people is social media?Is it not? Unless it’s just a chat or call application.
>>946074067Yes. That is essentially the defintion of social media. A form of media... with socializing (as opposed to TV, movies, books, etc. which are not interactive socially). Congratulations anon, you now know what social media is and you're lying to yourself if you think you don't use it.
>>946073963Why does she have pup in her anal?
>>946073963You're a fucking idiot if you think people don't think 4chan is social media.
>>946074184gerbil is too small at that advanced level
>>946074217and yet>>946074067
>>946074137No, social media has social features. This is an imageboard. Discord has more social media features than 4chan.
>>946074315How is what we're doing fundamentally any different from what people are doing on discord?
>>946074168Ok but 4chan is excluded in the definition you posted. You can't make social networks on a platform with no persistent identity, for example.
This site is antisocial media
>>946074377How is an imageboard fundamentally different from a chat app with user profiles and social networking features? You're trolling. Listen, I was around when all this was created. Imageboards predate social media by a lot.
>>946073963>What's the point of social media?It used to be a good way to keep in touch with friends.Now its just used as a propaganda machine.Why do you think Epstein invested soo much into /pol/? He wanted to flood the zone with crazy Q anon BS that made his pedo ring look like something only a crazy person would talk about.Little did he know just how stupid 4channers are, and they too the Q shit serious.
>>946074541I was, too, and the term social media was coined specifically because people were talking about what was different about the media than it used to be, and they coined the term "social media" to describe the sorts of things people were doing with the web and attempting to refine it into a concept of "web 2.0" which is now the media cancer we all hate. This is just anti-social elitism, thinking that if your social media is old enough or non-mainstream enough than its not the very dictionary definition of social media. But all that is is that us old farts hated that term and rejected the label.
>>946073963>4chan>social mediaIt technically is, but it's a disingenuous description.Like if some one asked>what search engine do you use?>my favorite search engine is Grok!>I am also trans if it matters!
>>946074877That phrase they used was "new media" not "social media" anon.
>>946074883More like "I don't use drugs, only prescribed medications, 300mg of caffeine in a day, a 6 pack each night, the occasional blunt, gambling, porn, junk food. But those aren't drugs. Drugs are only drugs when I think its below me."
>>946073963>4chan is social media.Anti-Social Media. fag
>>946074989Yes and it puts 4chan and facebook in the same categoryI miss /f/
>>946075098So you think that facebook and 4chan do such fundamentally different things that are so completely unlike eachother, that even though they are definitionally in the same category, they shouldn't be?
>>946075322Yes. Anonymity (and classic anime) is a core principle to 4channel.org, where knowing who did what is a core of facebook and all things like it
>>946075613So let me ask you this. Are things like mastadon not social media? Is there not an entire underground privacy-space that embraces both anonymity and what is functionally indistinguishable from the rest of things we consider social media?I'm not denigrating 4chan, btw. I don't visit much anymore, but I still think its an important space on the internet.
>>946073963The point of social media, which includes 4chan, is to let you communicate with other people, most of whom are contemptible faggots and retards.
>>946075691based
>>946075685Not sure what mastadon is. Like a discord?I think 4chan should have a more specific word for it because of it's focus on the idea more than the person, assuming the person isn't a newfag.Wikipedia is ALL about information, but imagine if people used it to meet others and socialize? Would that make Wikipedia any less of an encyclopedia?
>>946076749In, you know, the era where 4chan was all opsec dudes. People who fancied themselves hackers even though that was already becoming cheesey. They all left and randomly do anti-scientology-level-stuff occasionally and also go to defcon and show off their autistic fetish for elevator hacking or whatever the fuck these weirdos are good at. They all jacked themselves off about being silicon-valley types, but idealist. And they tried to clone twitter if twitter was truly, crypto-graphically anonymous and it was all done bottom-up from principles of self-interest where you just support your friends, because community is the real thing driving any of this shit right now (or the lack of it in mainstream society).
>>946077102Half of those autists just wound up cloning 4chan on tor for a TRULY ANARCHIST EXPERIENCE, but the world doesn't work that way. There is always a middle ground between the anarchy we try to keep alive here and the fake fucking corporate bullshit we have to put on just to function as a human being in society.
>>946077102Not sure what you mean by all that
>>946077328It means I might be drunk and high right now, talking about things I don't normally talk about to a completely anonymous audience.
>>946077495Enjoy your night bro
