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Hard to tell from my phone but are there any sources for the ‘exodus’ numbers? I don’t get the same impression that this post is laying out.
> As I type these words, a mass exodus is underway from Twitter and Facebook. No. Given that the number of Twitter users is increasing the premise of this article is false.
> As I type these words, a mass exodus is underway from Twitter and Facebook. No. Given that the number of Twitter users is increasing the premise of this article is false.
> "Twitter got bought out by a low-attention-span, overconfident billionaire who started pulling out Jenga blocks to see whether the system would fall over, and when it did, we all got crushed by the falling blocks." I've spent years mocking Twitter for it's short character limit (designed IMO for the low-attention-span trend) and the siloizing/bunkering effect of Facebook and groups (where never a contrary opinion i…
So much of the social aspect of the internet has been about “giving more people a voice”, and we’ve chased that desire at the blogging, milli-blogging, micro-blogging level.
I’m undecided, but I have a hunch that the increase in “speaking” via the internet has not increased at the same level as encouraging people to “listen.” I think there have been increases. Wikipedia is an asset I didn’t have as a kid. I can search for more stuff and read more stuff. But it doesn’t feel like they’ve increased at the same rate.
Or put as quasi math, if
M = desire/effort to use mouth and be heard online
L = desire/effort to listen/ingest ideas of others online
Then it feels like M/L is rising as a number over the last 2 socially netified decades.
How does this apply to Whatsapp? The way I see, users of whatsapp cannot quit whatsapp. It is like quitting their phone.
I wasn't aware of how Facebook won over MySpace by using a bot to allow you to use MySpace THROUGH Facebook so you didn't really lose anything when you opened a Facebook account and started using it. Now why couldn't there be a service that was simply a super-bot, it would automatically open an account for me on all social media platforms. It would then post all my entries to all other platforms, relay the responses…
The part of the article's analysis about switching costs is spot on. Facebook is aggressive about keeping switching costs high.
It is against the ToS of Facebook users to give their password to any service like that, and they will shut down any account they suspect does this.
How does this apply to Whatsapp? The way I see, users of whatsapp cannot quit whatsapp. It is like quitting their phone.
I nearly lost a significant sale because a client claimed they sent me a message on WhatsApp about a new purchase, which I obviously never received. It was only that about a week later I made a client contact call that I found out and the sale was made.
More recently, my young son’s sporting clubs only seem to communicate crucial information via WhatsApp - is training going ahead, what time, which equipment to bring and changes in location etc.
The above really made me realise that the vast majority of people care not a jot about the same things I do in terms of privacy and autonomy.