Gary Vanerchuck tells us the “real deal” with Social Media

@garyvee says that social media is the same thing as the internet.  I disagree.

While some of what he says is true – that the amount of “things” on the internet that can be called social media is humungous – social media still encompasses the parts of the internet that allow you to connect directly (and usually publicly) with others. Yes, a lot of current sites contain social components (social sharing buttons, etc), but take those away and it’s really not social media at all.  Just because someone (or millions) tagged youtube as both “web 2.0″ and “social media” doesn’t mean they’re the same. In fact most of the reason is probably just because they want to increase searchability using the tags.

I could go on, but I’m going to save it for another time. [UPDATE: I didn't save it for too long, so here are my additional, and more profound thoughts]