social mediums

Noun

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.
   • His innovative teenage peers were horsing around in the digital playground, looking to create the next social medium or crowdsourcing technique.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 10 Jul 2022

   Synonyms:

   social media

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