Abbreviating ‘social media’: What’s the best approach?

A social media strategist in Scotland wants you to cast a vote for your preferred abbreviation of this popular term.

So, how do you refer to it? Do you use “socmed,” “SM,” “S+M,” or maybe “S&M” (although I think that means something else entirely). Perhaps you’re just writing it in full—social media. And who has time for that?

Why haven’t we decided upon a standard abbreviation for this common term?!

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