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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Belen" data-source="post: 9609528" data-attributes="member: 1405">I am happy to disagree and I do not care if some folks consider boards as social media. I happily do not. My main issue with social media apps like FB, TikTok, Instagram, etc is the proto-narcisstic nature of creating a public profile to just talk about yourself and get lots of people engaging/watching you. It is not really a community.I have watched as FB, for instance, largely seemed to destroy real interaction. Instead of calling someone or making time to see/visit. You just watch them on FB to "keep up with them." For example, both my parent's died within a year of each other. Which did I prefer, the folks who called or sent cards or the people who gave me "hug" reactions via my wife's FB page?"Social media" tends to be the absence of real human social interaction. I'd rather someone take the time to call me once a year than post a reaction to a page on a daily basis.The boards maintain a deeper connection as they, at least, offer more in-depth discussion. You tend to learn more about people and get deeper nuance from conversations than posting about yourself on a brand page.It's fine if folks disagree. I detest social media and the cancers it has created. I absent forums and boards from socials because it has a depth of conversation that apps have never achieved. I also do not consider them "media" in any traditional sense.</blockquote>