Technically it should but it's still a pretty niche site, what general populace regard as social media is things like twitter, facebook, youtube and sometimes google+ and reddit, I'm sure there is a couple more. But as a general rule of thumb if it's not owned by a major corporation and doesn't have millions of users no tv channel or newpaper is going to call it social media. So practically speaking it's mainstream websites where people interact, oligopoly so to speak.
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Doesn't HN itself qualify as a social medium?
Technically it should but it's still a pretty niche site, what general populace regard as social media is things like twitter, facebook, youtube and sometimes google+ and reddit, I'm sure there is a couple more. But as a general rule of thumb if it's not owned by a major corporation and doesn't have millions of users no tv channel or newpaper is going to call it social media. So practically speaking it's mainstream websites where people interact, oligopoly so to speak.