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A sigh of relief has been heard across the Internet as behemoth Google has finally relented in it's ever intruding necessity to have a Google+ account from every service and function from signing up for Gmail to posting comments on YouTube.
From Slate to The Verge and everywhere in between there is dancing in the streets as Google finally got the message... no, not today Google, I don't want Plus. Plus will not be going away, it will become it's own property, left to stand on it's own, and unhooked from every Google service under the sun.
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(Score: 2) by Common Joe on Monday August 03 2015, @06:22PM
Actually, I'm about as anti-social networking as it can get. I hate almost all forms of it... but from a business perspective, why not if both parties are into that kind of stuff? And to be frank, websites like Soylent News are a kind of social media. Not the popular kind, but one of them none-the-less. Email lists and company blogs (as you mention) are actually part of social media too and a business like hers can use something like that without posting her real name. (This thread is about masking real names, if you recall.)
And to be honest, as much as I hate social media, I've used it to my advantage to meet hundreds of people face-to-face in the past couple of years. (New city in a new country.) I sign up to certain existing groups that caught my eye then go out there to meet and greet. I've actually made a couple of really good friends that way that we've invited over for dinner more than once. Groups on Facebook, Meetup.com, and XING may be the most popular, but there are others too. I met one guy face-to-face because I introduced myself on Slashdot when I realized we lived in the same city (before Soylent News).
And before I'm nagged about using social media while simultaneously hating it: I hate washing dishes and I hate shopping but I do both. Sometimes, to accomplish what I want, I have to buckle down and do some things I hate. As for Soylent News? It's about the only form of social media that I currently enjoy.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Monday August 03 2015, @06:43PM
Categorizing sites like SoylentNews as "social media" sites is ridiculous. The types of comments you'll see are totally different, the purposes of the sites are totally different (Facebook, Google+, and others exist to gather as much information about people as possible so they can make money off of suckers who give it away), there is no real name policy or even an atmosphere that expects you to give away your real name, the site's goal is not to allow you to find and keep track of the mundane activities of real-life acquaintances or family members, etc.
Just about everything would be a "social media" site using this logic. If the website has any degree of interaction with others whatsoever, then it would be "social media". Not a very useful definition to me.
(Score: 2) by Common Joe on Monday August 03 2015, @07:04PM
Hmmm... Then I suppose you and I have different definitions of social media. I based my definition off of this one: www.google.com/search?q=define+social+media [google.com]
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Monday August 03 2015, @07:54PM
Right. Not a very useful definition, at least not for how you're using it. There are many words [gnu.org] that, while commonly used and accepted, only serve to cause confusion or spread propaganda. But we can fight back.
The one that came up for me (on a different search engine) is this: "websites and other online means of communication that are used by large groups of people to share information and to develop social and professional contacts". I block Google 100%, so I don't know what came up for you. But I would say that "to share information" is too vague, but that the purpose of this website isn't really to "develop social and professional contacts". But then, that is also rather vague, and it depends on what you take 'social contact' to mean. I don't think it's a very useful definition; it's too vague and broad.