My response to GV on “no such thing as social media”:

Good logic, GV! Something I’ve always thought about and never reached anywhere because I would always come up with some other term like “Digital Media” but it’s just humans on the internet. The internet is a new sphere, realm, or area where we meet and tool new ways to do business. I think that we have to call it something because you can realistically live your life by just being on the internet and not having any human or traditional contact. I’m not saying that’s good, I’m just saying that is an extreme and a way to look at how and why terms are formed around the internet. It’s just so powerful and useful and we haven’t had something like this to change lives and business in a long time. Yes, the telephone and TV were big technologies that changed our lives but they were more integrated into the existing ways of life and not all that powerful. The opportunities the internet brings are endless and therefore terms are needed to describe and separate out all these opportunities. I hope I made some sense.

gary:

There is no such thing as social media - Watch. What are your thoughts on this logic?

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  1. weight-loss-surgery-1 reblogged this from gary
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  3. mysfi answered: Gary you are right with this ‘logic’ :) Happy New Year to you and your familly :)
  4. myhairtalking answered: It’s sure an expensive word try buying a domain with Social Media
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  6. owengreaves answered: I’ve always said that, giving business a new name does not give it more clarity.
  7. hervisioncurated answered: Media is a Medium for Communicating. Nothing more nothing less. Just like talking, writing letters, etc.
  8. lefintucson answered: Agreed. Web 2.0 just keeps morphing as people find more ways to innovate and gets things done with technology.
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  10. peterpaluska answered: Social Media has essentially become an easy go-to term coined in order to make socializing on the Internet more digestable and accesible.
  11. vladgorenshteyn answered: nothing “great” came out of a people that ask “ROI” questions…
  12. sorin7486 answered: There never was. The internet was always “social” since the very start but only for geek types that hanged out on IRC and message boards.
  13. kevinelliottchi answered: Agree 100% Furthermore, it’s redundant. All media is social on some level One person creates content to be consumed by another. Bam. Social.
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  16. rchatterton answered: Ya, I met one of our local coffee shop owners recently. She sees it as most people do: a tool. I agree with you, it’s just the internet now.
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  19. livingwithcassie answered: perception. paradigm shift. the evolution of basic communication.
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  21. donhhr answered: right on
  22. povia reblogged this from gary and added:
    media…it’s just a word!