An insightful HackerNews comment about how social networks turned into social media.

"The terminology explains what happened.

The Zuckerberg movie was called The Social Network.

At the time we saw the likes of Facebook as networks intended to build 1-1 communications.

Since then, it's become social Media.

It's now about centralized structures broadcasting messages to subscribers and followers.

The only difference from the past is who the broadcasters can be, but it's no longer about building networks between people."