Talk:Social networking service

message: The difference between a social media website and a social networking service is not made clear in these articles, and if it does exist at all, it doesn't seem important enough to warrant a split. Fundamentally, this is a gigantic redundant content fork, and it'd be better presented in a single article. Courtesy pinging  and , who discussed this on Discord a few days ago.  talk 22:02, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your closing and thoughtful comments. This blog lays out the ideas of social media vs social networking fairly clearly, but wouldn't be considered an RS. More of an RS is the book Social Information Seeking, chapter 3, pages 29-33 where social media and social networking are described as different concepts. I think "media" in a communications context is often shorthand for "media platform", which can host both one-to-many social media and many-to-many social networks. I don't want to give the idea that these are hard and fast universal definitions, or that many people don't confuse social media with social networking, but I think there is enough daylight between these concepts (and enough instances in the literature that treat them as separate concepts) that it is worth describing them separately. -- {Talk} 03:47, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Are there any examples we can agree on that would be classified as one but not the other?  talk 16:20, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[Social media]] with [[Social networking service]] 

message: According to Social media#Definition and features, which seems to have a good reference, social networking services are a type of social media. I edited the intro of this article to say that. I dropped the "Definition" section from this article (which  mentioned in the discussion above) that incorrectly applied the four-prong definition of "social media" to this one specific subtype of social media. Glancing very briefly at social media, I see sources that say sometimes the two are used as synonyms (most other types, for example the microblogging site Twitter or the photo-sharing site Instagram, also build social networks through follower relationships).
Quohx and , you said that social media is a narrower concept than social networking services. I don't see any sources saying that, but if you know of some, please share so we can explain the terminology more completely. The main source for the typology of social media, this International Journal of Market Research paper, explicitly says that social gaming is a type of social media, and mentions two MMORGs as examples of social gaming and not social networks. Presumably this is because the primary purpose of MMORGs is not to build a network of people (the "social network") like Facebook and LinkedIn do.
 The International Journal of Market Research paper cited by Social media does not support the idea that the marketing industry distinguishes "media" as "one-to-many" as different from "network" as "many-to-many". Media (communication) says that the term includes both "one-to-many" and "many-to-many" communication mechanisms. Maybe "media" is sometimes used as shorthand for mass media? The way that article is written implies that term does have "one-to-many" connotations. But if you have reliable sources that define "social media" and "social network" the way you described, please share them so we can explain the terminology more completely. -- Beland (talk) 01:34, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your closing and thoughtful comments. This blog lays out the ideas of social media vs social networking fairly clearly, but wouldn't be considered an RS. More of an RS is the book Social Information Seeking, chapter 3, pages 29-33 where social media and social networking are described as different concepts. I think "media" in a communications context is often shorthand for "media platform", which can host both one-to-many social media and many-to-many social networks. I don't want to give the idea that these are hard and fast universal definitions, or that many people don't confuse social media with social networking, but I think there is enough daylight between these concepts (and enough instances in the literature that treat them as separate concepts) that it is worth describing them separately. -- {Talk} 03:47, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Are there any examples we can agree on that would be classified as one but not the other?  talk 16:20, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
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