What's stopping you?
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I don't have the first idea of how to write code nor the time or money that is required to do it..I want to know what is the biggest factor stopping the next platform of social media being developed to take on Facebook? It seems like Zuckerberg has the whole pie
Facebook has momentum. Back then, Zuckerberg just got licky. No, really, he just managed to fill the gap that the duying Myspace, Uboot and what else they're all called left. Right now, you have to convince existing FB users to switch to your platform and that's pretty impossible due to the laziness of human nature. One social network, ok. Two of them, what for?
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One of the big things stopping a competitor from arising is that whenever a social network threatens to become popular, Facebook likes to step in and buy them. And by social network, I don't mean things that look and much like Facebook. I mean things that people start to use instead of Facebook. They bought Instagram and Whatsapp because many people were starting to use Instagram for sharing photos instead of FB, and were using Whatsapp instead of Facebook Messenger. To be fair, the Whatsapp acquisition was also about extending Facebook's reach, since it's available on many feature phones where FB Messenger isn't an option. Facebook isn't likely to disappear, but the risk comes from companies like Snapchat who siphon away the age 15-25 crowd. I think Mark Zuckerberg's worst nightmare would a scenario where all the young people have abandoned ship for a newer and cooler social network, and FB ends up being an echo chamber of old people grumping about politics, posting fake news, and sharing pictures of their cats. I'll admit that I mostly use FB for sharing pictures of my cat these days, so I'm probably part of the problem. :)
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Super Lloyd wrote:
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Actually, it was severalth. Remember MySpace, Friendster, Six Degrees, Live Journal, etc? And that's not to mention "communities", like the ones set up by companies like AOL and Compuserve, or Usenet. IMO, facebook is probably the final step too far, in that it goes further than most people actually want; and "social" networking will move toward being far more restricted and "private" -- except, of course, for marketers/advertisers, attention whores, and others with nothing of value to "share".
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"Severalth" - is that really an "official" English word? Whether it is or not: I like it! The one I would mention is Second Life. Even state agencies established their information boots in SL. If you didn't have an SL account, there was no other simple way of obtaining the same information as was available in the SL information boot. Second Life was so real that one German guy was dragged to court for sexual abuse of minors in SL! Sure, there was an 18 year age limit, but that didn't prevent you from making your avatar look like a twelve year old. The avatar of this German guy had misled this twelve-year-old-looking avatar into immoral and illegal acts, for which he was sued (even though noone claimed that the person with the 'underage' avatar was underage). So, in some respects, SL was even more "real life" than Facebook is.
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I don't have the first idea of how to write code nor the time or money that is required to do it..I want to know what is the biggest factor stopping the next platform of social media being developed to take on Facebook? It seems like Zuckerberg has the whole pie
You'd need to offer something that FB doesn't offer that's compelling enough to make people want to use it...and that would take too long for FB to copy and you think is worth more than the $1 billion that FB would offer to buy you off with if they couldn't copy it. How about this? The 'perfect' matchmaker. Takes every single bit of information about everyone online, and picks the _one_ person on the internet that is (currently) your perfect romantic match....and updates it every time a bit of information is added, so it's a constantly moving target. People who put more personal information and more recently would get better recommendations. Call it 'THE ONE'.
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To succeed, all you gotta do is not become so self-righteous as to assume you can correctly identify "fake news", or impose your own sense of morals on your users.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013Fake news won't get in the way of success. The major television networks have been doing that for decades with plenty of success.
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I would, if there was a way to administer electric shocks when the user posts something really stupid. Which would be most of Farcebook and Twatter... :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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"Severalth" - is that really an "official" English word? Whether it is or not: I like it! The one I would mention is Second Life. Even state agencies established their information boots in SL. If you didn't have an SL account, there was no other simple way of obtaining the same information as was available in the SL information boot. Second Life was so real that one German guy was dragged to court for sexual abuse of minors in SL! Sure, there was an 18 year age limit, but that didn't prevent you from making your avatar look like a twelve year old. The avatar of this German guy had misled this twelve-year-old-looking avatar into immoral and illegal acts, for which he was sued (even though noone claimed that the person with the 'underage' avatar was underage). So, in some respects, SL was even more "real life" than Facebook is.
Member 7989122 wrote:
"Severalth" - is that really an "official" English word?
I wouldn't want anyone to go away with the idea that it really is an "official" word -- but I doubt that anyone would misunderstand its meaning.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I don't have the first idea of how to write code nor the time or money that is required to do it..I want to know what is the biggest factor stopping the next platform of social media being developed to take on Facebook? It seems like Zuckerberg has the whole pie
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I don't have the first idea of how to write code nor the time or money that is required to do it..I want to know what is the biggest factor stopping the next platform of social media being developed to take on Facebook? It seems like Zuckerberg has the whole pie
The thing that facebook got right is making it not about you, but rather about your friends. That is why most people check in. Not to post but to read
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I don't have the first idea of how to write code nor the time or money that is required to do it..I want to know what is the biggest factor stopping the next platform of social media being developed to take on Facebook? It seems like Zuckerberg has the whole pie
I think a big factor in Facebook's success was that it started out on college campuses with an already electronically connected demographic. Once you got the kids, you got [many of] the parents. I've found that you can't find most of my demographic (born in the 1960s*) on Facebook, but you can find their kids. (Though this is changing, especially for those with grandkids, since Facebook is a convenient way to get pictures, announcements and all that.) *Only after writing that did I realize that if you were born in 1969, odds are you graduated college in 1991, which is when, for all intents and purposes, the web started.
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Member 7989122 wrote:
"Severalth" - is that really an "official" English word?
I wouldn't want anyone to go away with the idea that it really is an "official" word -- but I doubt that anyone would misunderstand its meaning.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
I think that is how Shakespeare coined so many words. They sounded right, made sense, and everyone picked up on the new words. So if enough of us start using the word it will be added to the Oxford dictionary.
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I think that is how Shakespeare coined so many words. They sounded right, made sense, and everyone picked up on the new words. So if enough of us start using the word it will be added to the Oxford dictionary.
<Aussie accent>Me and Shake-o, we'd be mates!<Aussie accent>
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