Why do Athiests invent new terms like 'Social-media' when it's nothing new, isn't facebook?

[steveasat]

I don't think it's an atheist thing, but the buzzwords "social media" started to appear at the moment that journalists needed a concise term to describe the activity. Many of our new words come to us through news media, and that means your suspicion is well founded. Journalists like to feel that they are important by being the first to talk about something. The same way a gossip loves to be the first one with a new rumor.

That means reporters often spin an old story as if it were some shocking new event or trend, when in fact it's just the same old thing with new buzzwords. "Social media" is the name they gave to online interaction that had been going on for decades. They sure weren't going to admit "actually, it's not news but we only just now heard about this thing".