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The article mentions of days when you were anonymous, getting to know strangers through common interests and exchanging ideas. I do miss those early days. For me, social network stopped being social as soon as reasonable assurance of anonymity when out the window once companies started pressuring people use their real identity, and that became the norm.
> Watching distant cousins fight about politics I've long been cautious to step into the WhatsApp hysteria going on here in Brazil. But the last (disgraceful) election here was the last straw. The level of stupidity in the memes from both sides was far beyond repulsive. A solution that is working so far: automatic regulation. I created a Telegram group with a bot that censors the most common names and expressions on…
Did you notice any improvement on the level of discussion? Or do they just reacted different with each other posts?
Also, do you just censor the keyword or remove the post entirely?
But yeah, common-interest groups are way better than the de-anonymized social graph of Facebook.
I vote we return to the age of late Geocities, forums, and early blogs. Less conformity in design, less "social" by modern definition, but more people who just liked one topic enough to build something about it and communities forming around them.
It's all about advertising. Social network is about advertising in the end. To CEOs: top using "social network" vocabulary for your business, when in the end, it's about advertising. Or you're liars.
Facebook described in 50 years: a network where real world relationships were gamified and users competed for popularity. The network eventually died because the relationships it represented became meaningless in the eyes of its users, and the perceived value of the "game" fell to virtually zero.
I find that hard to believe. I find that VERY hard to believe. Either he is completely ignorant, or he has no problem lying to the general public. Because between forcing Top Stories and broadcasting things you never meant to broadcast... well, it's a bald faced lie.
Why can't these companies either listen to their customers directly or if they absolutely must make user hostile decisions, say that they must do that because the venture capitalists demand it? I'm getting very tired of the "feedback matters to us" when it clearly doesn't.