Do you consider Vizzed social media? If you think of it, it is Facebook-esk in a way as it has a place to post messages and it has games (Like what Facebook has) Place your votes in the poll above and let me know why you chose what you did.

"websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking."

Up there is the definition of social media. Yep, users here can definitely create or share content (guide, reviews, whatever) and social networking, which means to interact with other users, definitely exists here. The forums anyone? And even in the RGR, when you're playing a game you have a chatbox (unless you have that disabled) where you can talk with other people who are playing the same game as you.

By definition, Vizzed is social media. Though it does avoid some of the negative stereotypes that are on social media in general though.

ZeroTails : Yes it does. I'm just gonna go out on a limb and say that Facebook doesn't have moderators like we do here.

Basically, anything that is considered a social media is where you can interact and talk to other people. So of course, this is a social media like you asked.

Yep Vizzed is a social media as well. I mean look how everyone does things here. They do what they want either for gaming or for posting as well which would interact with people. Vizzed is a little different than other social websites in a way.

Eniitan :
OmegaVenomous : Forums were the Facebook/Twitter of the 1980's (The BBS's) and the 1990's although the BBS's are more Twitter like than Facebook.

Yes, but it's more on the micro-blogging side, similar to the classification that Twitter is under.

WHat people don't know about Social media is that there's 11 different categories and that a site can only be under two of them.

zanderlex : I did not know that. Thanks for mentioning that!

Yup... People interact with other people... That's pretty much social media. 

I've met several people here, that I no longer talk to via vizzed... But they have become GREAT friends. I can't immagine calling it anything else.

darthyoda : Not many people here know other vizzed users in real life here. Sure, there are a few users such as Davideo7 who know people in real life, it's just not as big as you'd think it would be. This is the case with Facebook as well but it's reversed (As in people are Friends with people they know more so than people they don't know which may be because of gaming purposes)

Well, it's about as social as social media gets. Under the definition of social media, any website with a forum is technically social media, so Vizzed certainly falls under that category. It's not what comes to people's minds immediately when they think of social media, but it's social media all the same.

NovemberJoy : Yep, hence why I created this.

By definition, I suppose it wold be. But personally, I don't consider it a social media site. 

thing1 : Yeah, you just don't think of this site as social media due to how forums are.

Going by a very vague definition, I suppose it qualifies but all I've ever seen social media to be was a place to post things about yourself that no one cares about or a place of passive aggressivism. Crap like "Bummer... Just ran out of toilet paper" or "I just hate it when SOMEONE *COUGHex-bfCOUGH* does [insert petty nitpick here]. Those people need to drink bleach and jump off a cliff and die in a fire and kill themself and drink bleach and DIE!!!" and so on. Vizzed is a place where I've actually had discussions with people I've met and become friends with, learned things and helped others. In that sense, Vizzed is far more meaningful than social media. We're a community.

EDIT: Also, I'm gonna moves this to Polls.

m0ssb3rg935 : Thanks for doing that. I hadn't even thought of that when I made this. Yeah, social media seems to be a place to talk about real life while here we talk about things other than real life.

I went against the grain and sided with thing and m0ss on this one. I understand that Vizzed qualifies as social media, but I don't see it as such in the least.

One difference between Facebook having games and Vizzed having games is that these games aren't "socially aware" and they're actual console games, not gimmicky Pay2Win stuff with timers and help requests etc. Also the games are the main focus of the site.


And as m0ss pointed out, social media is more geared toward sharing what you're doing, how you're doing, what you're thinking, etc. it's egocentric and friendcentric (if I may take the liberty to make up a word), it's also about getting up on a soapbox and pretending people actually care about what you think on certain matters and why you think it.
Vizzed is game focused mostly, and what isn't about games is about other forms of entertainment usually. Only one (or two by way of General Chat acting as somewhat of an extension to "Your Forum" at times) main forum is about talking about yourself. As such Vizzed seems nothing like social media to me.


I guess my point is that denotation isn't nearly as important in some things as connotation, and this is one of those cases. By definition it's one thing, but by perception it's another thing entirely.

Eirinn : Agreed!

Well it has words, and is social.


So yeah to me it's a social media, a social media better than most I use.

More like a message board. I guess I do not see it as another Facebook,Tumblr,Reddit,whatever. It is social in its own way and thankfully it is controlled unlike Kik and the other garbage sites like it.