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   Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 02:37:12 JST Darius Kazemi

   I'm sure other people have noted this but at some point we went from talking about "social network sites" to talking about "social media sites".

   At first, the network was the thing that mattered. Then, the media was the thing that mattered.

   A quick Google Trends query shows the shift might have happened around 2012:

   https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%22social%20network%20site%22,%22social%20media%20site%22&hl=en

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     Sean Bala (seanbala@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 02:37:12 JST Sean Bala

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     @darius Seriously interesting point!

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 04:26:35 JST clarity flowers

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     @darius feels like we should really be calling them "media marketplaces" these days

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 05:20:32 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @darius I think I like my social network more than I like social media.