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    Although I think this Question is more general to social media rather than just social network sites, I tagged this with social-networking as there is not any more general "social media" tag. Commented Apr 14, 2020 at 2:28
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    Welcome to Meta SE. I'm not an expert, & haven't done as much research as you seem to have, but I don't think there's a black & white, binary yes/no type answer to your question. There are varying aspects & degrees of being "social media", with some fitting here, at least to a certain extend, & others basically not. Also, the answer will actually vary somewhat depending on the particular site(s) in the SE network. Nonetheless, I would consider that, overall, the sites here tend to be less fitting of being "social media" than most other sites considered as such, e.g., Facebook, Twitter, etc. Commented Apr 14, 2020 at 3:56
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    What is your question? As in: what do you expect from an answer to address? Commented Apr 14, 2020 at 5:56
  • I think that SO is a special subtype of social media, emphasizing educational content creation. But then social media is such a large field that it probably isn't a very useful term anyway. Labeling it doesn't really help much understanding it. Commented Apr 15, 2020 at 20:00