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The Cyber Defense Review

Social Media—From Social Exchange to Battlefield

By Beata Biały | July 31, 2018

SOCIAL MEDIA—BEGINNINGS When discussing the origins of social media, researchers usually start in the 1980s and the Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). They were a kind of online meeting room that allowed users to download games and other files, and leave messages to co-users. The social aspect of this exchange was pretty clear, but the interaction was rather limited and slow due to technological reasons. What is more important, the social interaction had a rather random character—people did not know who was sitting at the other end of the telephone line.

 

Social Media—From Social Exchange to Battlefield



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