re: Social Media is a plague and it all needs to be shutdown-China, N. Korea,Iran please Hack

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Says somebody posting on social media. Lol.

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Meh, we could go back-and-forth debating whether TD is a "social network" all day. Both sides have their valid points.

I do think that TD fits a loose definition of "social media," but that definition would basically expand the range of mediums to things like listservs, which I really don't think many people would consider to be social media.

That's basically all TD is...a bunch of listservs compiled into a convenient-to-navigate format.

In my view, there is a certain level of egoism - or lack thereof - when it comes to the platforms that most people would truly consider social media. You don't know who I am. I don't know who you are. My real-life persona is not directly tied to my TD handle. To me, that's a HUGE difference with significant implications.

But that's not to say that using TD doesn't involve some of the same risks and consequences as using something like Facebook.