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> What would be the point of building a social network for Yahoo? Better engagement? Maybe just more engagement. People spend a hell of a lot of time on Facebo
by smegel 11y ago
> What would be the point of building a social network for Yahoo? Better engagement?
Maybe just more engagement. People spend a hell of a lot of time on Facebook.
I am thinking a social networking site like Facebook, combined with a mobile app that not only acts as a client to the social network, but also emulates the easy sharing features of instagram/snapshat/periscope. Something the younger generation will want to use all day.
I mean, the hardest thing about building a social network is getting users. It is not as simple as "built it and they will come". Yahoo already has the users, to not leverage them seems crazy (or maybe I am).
And in response to other comments about Tumblr...just no. Tumblr is not a social network, it is a bogging site, one of many. Facebook doesn't have a stand alone blogging site, and Google has left it's one to rot, there is probably a good reason for this.
- henrikschroder 11y ago> the hardest thing about building a social network is getting users Going by the trainwreck that was Google+, I think you're completely wrong on this one.
- taneq 11y agoGoogle+ was going great guns until they started forcing people to use real names everywhere. There's a big step between "building a social network" and "trying to own your users' real life identities".
- skewart 11y agoI disagree. There's a big difference between "users" and active, engaged users. Google+ may have had a lot of users on paper, but relatively few people actually spent much time using it. The hard part about building a social network for a company like Google, or even Yahoo, isn't getting user accounts. It's making something that people actually want to use.
- henrikschroder 11y agoI don't think you're arguing with me, because that was exactly my point as well?