[Nervous Tick]

All social media is evil.

Free Republic is social media.

Not calling you out or anything... just sayin'.

[upchuck]

Free Republic is social media.

Sorry, I don't consider FR to be social media:

• Folks don't post every minute of their lives here.
• Very few, post pics of their families.
• There is no "timeline."
• FR doesn't track you.
• FR doesn't try to sell you stuff based on what you post.
• FR doesn't sell your posted info to third parties.

If anything, FR is the anti-social media.

[John Robinson]

Nah, social media is defined by person-to-person relationships, “friend lists”, with content that is compiled from and tailored to the aggregate of a personal network. FR is more like a corkboard, content originates from the whole of our membership and is made available in whole to the same—actually the superset, the unrestricted public, specifically not restricted to a personal network. Also to note, FR is not a blog— more formally a “web log” i.e. open diary (implies a single author or limited few authors), people often mislabel it as so. FR is conceptially a bulletin board system, loosely modelled after similar systems I enjoyed as a teen in the 80’s. Social media, the blogs, and the original bulletin boards (aka forums) all share similar features, the edges tend to blur at times.