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Re: Friended is a new social network that wants to get real

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Post by diminoten » Fri, Nov 08, 2019, 9:33 PM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #110

diminoten wrote: post #108

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A lot of "ought" in what you're saying, but there's a stark reality that clashes with that ideology, and it's how little you can control others. You shouldn't have to deal with people being assholes, so when they are you should let yourself get hurt? You shouldn't have to deal with drunk drivers, so you shouldn't wear your seatbelt?

> You shouldn't have to deal with drunk drivers, so you shouldn't wear your seatbelt? No, but you're suggesting that we should all armor our cars. I'm suggesting that we should work to change the system so that instances drunk driving are dramatically decreased.

I would suggest armoring our cars if it were anything but absurdly impractical.

Getting to know yourself better, and understanding how bullying is a projection of others, and not related to who you are as a person is immensely practical.

Re: Friended is a new social network that wants to get real

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Post by diminoten » Fri, Nov 08, 2019, 9:34 PM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #109

diminoten wrote: post #107

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Because a) it is the state of the world, and dealing with reality is important to living a healthy life, and b) controlling how others effect you is a tried and true way of maintaining happiness when you're not in control, which you rarely are in life.

But we're pretty brainy apes, we change the world we live in for the better.

Not always.

Re: Friended is a new social network that wants to get real

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Post by Fjolsvith » Sat, Nov 09, 2019, 1:59 PM UTC

noonespecial wrote: post #78

choward wrote: post #10

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$4.99 a week has to be a joke, right? $20 a month is about double what I pay for Netflix and half of my phone bill. Just to send messages to people? I'm sure the article is leaving things out but as of right now I don't get this at all.

I'm actually not sure its enough. It looks like the only play this service has is the "country club" model. You're not paying $5/week to get in, you're paying it to keep the people who can't/won't pay that much out . The question I'd really like to find out the answer to is will average net trolls pay real money to troll?

I bet this turns into a casual sex hookup app. Put out there you're interested and see what you get back.

Re: Friended is a new social network that wants to get real

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Post by rogerkirkness » Tue, Nov 12, 2019, 4:13 AM UTC

aldoushuxley001 wrote: post #21

rogerkirkness wrote: post #18

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I love the outrage about $20/month. It's clear that social networks create almost no individual utility at all, and that the reason we have privacy violating ones in the first place is that people "really want it" but also really don't want to pay for it. Facebook will clearly win, based on the comments about pricing. People don't value privacy, they value free stuff.

The comment your replying to said they would be willing to pay $1 a month for a social network, so there’s definitely appetite for paid social networks, but $20 a month is understandably a crazy price.

It's market failure because you'd have to find a way to basically compete with Facebook while your TAM/potential is 5x smaller.