social medium

social medium (plural social media or (rare) social mediums)

1. (Internet, uncommon) An application or website allowing users to share content and communicate with one another via the Internet; an individual social media site.

   Synonym: (informal) social media

   • 2014 February 23, Jack Hitt, “A Young Inventor, Finding the Crunch Factor”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-10:

     His innovative teenage peers were horsing around in the digital playground, looking to create the next social medium or crowdsourcing technique.

   • 2016 October 9, Emma Grey Ellis, “How the Alt-Right Grew From an Obscure Racist Cabal”, in Wired‎, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-28:

     The term "alt-right" probably makes you think of Twitter or a dark subreddit, or 4chan, or some social medium occupied by meme-slinging, Trump-supporting, unapologetically bigoted provocateurs.

   • 2017 May 9, Om Malik, “What’s Wrong with Twitter’s Live-Video Strategy”, in The New Yorker‎, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-06:

     Twitter has become newly relevant, thanks to its status as President Donald Trump's favorite social medium, and it added nine million active monthly users in the first quarter of this year.

   • 2018 January 25, “Silicon Valley investors line up to back Telegram ICO”, in Financial Times‎, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 December 2019:

     Telegram, whose libertarian stylings and focus on privacy mirrors semi-anonymous bitcoin, is the social medium of choice for online cryptocurrency communities.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see social,‎ medium; any medium or environment facilitating social communication.
   • 2009, Nancy Clarke, Stormy Hill, New York, N.Y.: Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 71:

     Being in public school had always presented a problem anyway. Most of the children from the surrounding farms, those with similar backgrounds, attended private schools, so that Ann and Jock did not come in contact with them to make friends through the usual social medium of school.