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the circle of liiiiiifeee...
Friendster shall rise again!
Ahem. Anyone remember Six Degrees?
Facebook is for grandparents: What we need in a next-gen social network
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#12I find Path(www.path.com) to be promising. Pretty neat and intuitive.
Isn't closed to your social circle? OP wants something that helps you expand to other social circles. Arrive to a new city none of your friends are in, and have an app tell you what is around you based on your interests and posts.
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#13The social networks are like TV shows. They have a limited run. This is because it's entertainment, rather than tech.
Hollywood knows how this works, and they do not incorporate or IPO each individual TV show: instead they incorporate studios, that produce many different shows. Facebook is forced into this model too by reality, thus they bought Instagram, and tried to buy Snapchat. Those shows will also have a limited lifetime. Facebook will fail, because they do not recognize that they are in the entertainment business and they will cling to their one single show.
Someone needs to create a non-gaming software studio, that is tooled to make or to buy Instagrams for less than $1bn, knowing that they constantly need to retire the old shows and come up with the new ones.
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#14I think the obvious answer here is there won't be a next-gen social network that is Facebook. Instead there will be several social networks that are laser focused on being the best for X.
Ala Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Vine, Pinterest, Path, OKCupid, Github, etc...
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#16Anyone else feel that no one knows this "next-generation social network" better than, well, the next generation? I'm talking about today's young teens and little kids. Facebook took off during our time because we were the cool demographic back then. It was everything we wanted and needed that MySpace and Friendster failed to give. I think it's difficult for us to comprehend what the next-gen social network will be because we think differently. We didn't exactly grow up with touch-screen devices and mobile internet, for one.
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#17Anyone else feel that no one knows this "next-generation social network" better than, well, the next generation? I'm talking about today's young teens and little kids. Facebook took off during our time because we were the cool demographic back then. It was everything we wanted and needed that MySpace and Friendster failed to give. I think it's difficult for us to comprehend what the next-gen social network will be be…
Mobile messaging apps seem to be the way forward for this. They are starting to integrate social networking features into it.
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#18The social networks are like TV shows. They have a limited run. This is because it's entertainment, rather than tech. Hollywood knows how this works, and they do not incorporate or IPO each individual TV show: instead they incorporate studios, that produce many different shows. Facebook is forced into this model too by reality, thus they bought Instagram, and tried to buy Snapchat. Those shows will also have a limite…
That's an interesting analogy. However, I don't think that Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, etc are as easy to replicate as a TV show. Empirically, social products are exceptionally difficult to 'manufacture' and are usually the result of side projects and early stage startups.
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#19I find Path(www.path.com) to be promising. Pretty neat and intuitive.
Isn't closed to your social circle? OP wants something that helps you expand to other social circles. Arrive to a new city none of your friends are in, and have an app tell you what is around you based on your interests and posts.
You just described the social network I'm working on now, and like a couple of other posters have mentioned, our entire userbase is teens and college aged people at the moment.
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#20The social networks are like TV shows. They have a limited run. This is because it's entertainment, rather than tech. Hollywood knows how this works, and they do not incorporate or IPO each individual TV show: instead they incorporate studios, that produce many different shows. Facebook is forced into this model too by reality, thus they bought Instagram, and tried to buy Snapchat. Those shows will also have a limite…
isn't that what Obvious is?