The post's author also talks about how social media is different from the web of the past. This is a good time to point out the difference between operating on the Web and operating on the Internet. The Internet is just a client-server technology. The Web is about hypertext and making connections. Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn are on the Internet but not on the Web, because they penalize linking to the wider web. Blogs, search engines and Reddit are "Web".
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The post's author also talks about how social media is different from the web of the past. This is a good time to point out the difference between operating on the Web and operating on the Internet. The Internet is just a client-server technology. The Web is about hypertext and making connections. Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn are on the Internet but not on the Web, because they penalize linking to the wider web. Blogs, search engines and Reddit are "Web".