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I don’t care what the dictionary says, it’s a pointless definition if that’s the definition. That’s literally every website on the planet. It even includes websites like General Motors blog (that definition you posted comes from a 2010 article written by a business moron who lumped in Wikipedia and General Motors’ blog, in the actually published paper), so yes it’s an incredibly dumb definition. Social media does not mean anywhere you share information and connect through text. THAT’S THE INTERNET!
If reddit considers itself a social media website ....... How is that different from Lemmy?
Also who gives a fuck? Maybe take a second to ask yourself why you've written paragraphs on a social media site declaring what is and isnt a social media website?
Because definitions lead to laws. Those laws affect the interactions you have on the internet. The current interaction you are having would be bound by laws in the UK, Nepal, the United States and more if forums were classified as social media. Not only that, but with the definitions posted elsewhere in this thread it would literally regulate Amazon under social media as well. Do you think that things that aren’t social media should be regulated as them just by an arbitrary naming convention?
Using social media to mean “the Internet” just means you lose your rights without noticing.
Most laws define their words, and they're going to define them however they want, and they will include forums as social media. Laws are written to have an effect, usually to regulate communication between people. That's what social media facilitates