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    1. Additionally, some sites are primarily built for other purposes but have a social media component as well, such as the Amazon online store that has user reviews and customer questions & answers, or news sites that have comment sections.

      I didn't know that Amazon can also be considered social media:) It's actually interesting to know that a website/app only needs some features of a social platform to be categorized as social media. Given this, what are the preliminary factors that determine whether a web/app is social media or not since it's kind of vague when we decide which is and which is not?

    1. Acting in ways consistent with the virtues (e.g., courage, truthfulness, wittiness, friendliness, etc.) leads to flourishing of an individual. In acting virtuously, you are training yourself to become more virtuous, and you will subsequently be able to act even more virtuously.

      From what I know about Virtue ethics, the values listed above are accurate but not sufficient since it hasn't touched on the aspect of community's flourishing. I believe that in order for a person to flourish, they have to also show their act of caring towards the others, in stead of only individual's flourishing.