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The Last Goodbye
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#12Remember Ello? The invite only social network that blew up in 2014. I was on it for a week then I had to say Oodbye as well. https://ello.co/ https://www.cnet.com/news/meet-ello-the-social-network-that-...
Ello hasn't shut down?
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#13Remember Ello? The invite only social network that blew up in 2014. I was on it for a week then I had to say Oodbye as well. https://ello.co/ https://www.cnet.com/news/meet-ello-the-social-network-that-...
Ello is still operating, though its social aspect is fading.
The founders' initial plan was to create an artists' and designers' platform, and they've pivoted hard back in that direction over the past couple of years.
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#14Remember Ello? The invite only social network that blew up in 2014. I was on it for a week then I had to say Oodbye as well. https://ello.co/ https://www.cnet.com/news/meet-ello-the-social-network-that-...
Ello is still going. It has a lot of artists and similar on it. Kind of a more upscale DeviantArt.
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#16Remember Ello? The invite only social network that blew up in 2014. I was on it for a week then I had to say Oodbye as well. https://ello.co/ https://www.cnet.com/news/meet-ello-the-social-network-that-...
Ello is still operating, though its social aspect is fading. The founders' initial plan was to create an artists' and designers' platform, and they've pivoted hard back in that direction over the past couple of years.
Thought their initial pitch was an ad free social network?
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#17Path was very popular in Indonesia when I visited a few years ago. I guess people just switched to other social networks like Instagram. I wonder whether people will have moved on from Instagram in 10 years.
I heavily believe social networks will always be cyclical, as people always want excitement. A new social network launches, everyone gets excited for something new and different, it grows to the point where your grandma and your teachers or kids are on it too, you lose the excitement and start looking for the next "entertainment".
The world is moving faster than ever with entertainment and attention spans. Facebook is already showing signs of fizzling out. I don't believe it will die, just like MySpace and Digg are still going, they're just not the hot shit they once were. I think we're pretty much hitting the point now where Snapchat and Instagram are "hotter" than Facebook, and Facebook is running on momentum for a fair while longer before being "just another social network".
Instagram and Snapchat are in their peak right now. Everyone under 30 has both, and most over 30 at least have an account to follow their kids, friends, whatever. I think 10 years is even optimistic, I wouldn't be surprised if another transition happened within 5.
When Instagram and Snapchat lose their excitement, the next thing will come along. There's hundreds of startups already working on trying to be the next big social network. It's a given it'll happen eventually.
(I'm not in the industry and don't know stats, I don't use social networks other than following people on Twitter for updates, this is just the ramblings of someone watching it all for 20+ years)
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#18Path was very popular in Indonesia when I visited a few years ago. I guess people just switched to other social networks like Instagram. I wonder whether people will have moved on from Instagram in 10 years.
I heavily believe social networks will always be cyclical, as people always want excitement. A new social network launches, everyone gets excited for something new and different, it grows to the point where your grandma and your teachers or kids are on it too, you lose the excitement and start looking for the next "entertainment". The world is moving faster than ever with entertainment and attention spans. Facebook i…
You make it sound as if instagram is unrelated to facebook. Facebook owns them and they have so much money that they will buy the next thing and the one after that as well. Facebook, the company, will do just fine.
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#19It started as a good idea while social networks hadn't yet reached the level of adoption and engagement that they would later, but getting users to start using anything new is very difficult. The limit on the number of contacts (that one could have) may have further impacted the network effect. It's a bit unfortunate that the first thing that comes to my mind when Path is mentioned is the address book upload by the a…
I'd be interested in a peer-to-peer one, rather than one with a centralized server and database.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ello is still operating, though its social aspect is fading. The founders' initial plan was to create an artists' and designers' platform, and they've pivoted hard back in that direction over the past couple of years.
Thought their initial pitch was an ad free social network?
It was. Turns out that’s really hard to do.