And HN is social media too.
So the common use case of wikipedia, reading about things, is not. But digging deeper into the editors\editing section there is definitely social media happening both in forming networks and creating content for others
I don't think email qualifies. While you can share content and network with it, it seems to be more of a delivery mechanism than a destination that users would seek out.
"AOL" is too ambiguous.
I always though of Compuserve as a service provider but maybe they did have some social media features
BBS might be the original social media
Finger is interesting as you could create a "profile". myspace and other social media seem to be a combination of finger and bbs packaged into an endpoint
Facebook and Twitter are social networks because I share stuff and there's a definite social graph that I'm part of.
"websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking."
So having a user account doesn't make it social media.
Stackoverflow seems like a "no" but you can definitely promote yourself and there is a "community" there.
LinkedIn is virtually all about social networking, so yes.
Twitter, Instagram - social media. Reddit, Stack Overflow, HN - Not social media.