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What would it take for a new social network to take users off facebook in 2017?
by bounded 9y ago
What would it take for a new social network to take users off facebook in 2017?
- a3n 9y agoSomeone with the talent and drive to create a billion dollar closed social network that eclipses Facebook.
- bounded 9y agoWhat about a for-profit open-source social network then? Reading through comments on threads here it seems the events pages make it difficult for people to switch somewhere else without having a large part of their social life cut off.
- pascalxus 9y agoStart by making a list of cons. What do people not like about facebook? What's the problem with using facebook? That's where your answer lies.
- ams6110 9y agoMost people don't have any problem at all with Facebook. We're in a very small echo chamber here on this thread.
- juliangoldsmith 9y agoThe real problem would be network effects. Nobody uses a new social network, because nobody they know uses it. To get people off of Facebook, you'd have to find a way around that.
- dhimes 9y agoYep. You need a niche. Like yik yak, but not.
- devrandomguy 9y agoIntegrate with Facebook. Don't force people to choose one system or another. Then people will diffuse across the barrier.
- nobodynoes 9y agouse Facebook oAuth to log into a facebook clone? Will they let that happen?
- pkamb 9y agoA CEO that says "no" to an $X billion acquisition.
- pascalxus 9y agoIt would have to be something that makes facebook irrelevant. For example: a telepathic group mind meld - where you could interact with other people synchronously or asynchronously.