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it's happening for millenials already. Everyone I talk to feels that emptiness of blindly sharing status posts and photos. And pretty much everyone I talk to a

it's happening for millenials already. Everyone I talk to feels that emptiness of blindly sharing status posts and photos. And pretty much everyone I talk to about this mentions that they do those status updates and photos for family members more than friends, and that they keep up with friends differently. In fact, I keep up with all of my friends through direct messages on one platform or another or IRL. The only exception is Twitter because I feel like you can get into interesting conversations on there...I just wouldn't get on there to share stuff with friends from IRL.

jameskegel 8y ago
A closed and self hosted family social network without the marketing momentum would be great. Self hosting removes the need for marketing and data sharing shenanigans that most companies require for growth.
- bunderbunder 8y ago
  My family accomplishes this with a good old-fashioned email distribution list. For the purpose, it works really well, much better than anything else I've seen. It's also not something most people are going to find out about, because, yeah, probably more-or-less impossible to monetize, and therefore ain't gonna be advertised. I've also been involved in some experimentation with private Slack groups, but I can't say it's a great option. For people who don't want to be checking their smartphone constantly, it feels like this wild uncontrollable deluge of communication. And people who don't want to install an app on their smartphone quickly stop bothering to go to the website, either.
  - samat 8y ago
    We use telegram group chats for that. I guess it would work with WhatsApp too, but sharing pictures and videos on telegram is so quick. I have 3 separate group chats I share stuff with: 1. Family 2. friends from uni and 3. colleagues from old work.
- taude 8y ago
  This is basically what Path was....though they had some mis-steps along the way.
- Ftuuky 8y ago
  My family does that with a Whatsapp group.

jameskegel 8y ago

A closed and self hosted family social network without the marketing momentum would be great. Self hosting removes the need for marketing and data sharing shenanigans that most companies require for growth.

bunderbunder 8y ago
My family accomplishes this with a good old-fashioned email distribution list. For the purpose, it works really well, much better than anything else I've seen. It's also not something most people are going to find out about, because, yeah, probably more-or-less impossible to monetize, and therefore ain't gonna be advertised. I've also been involved in some experimentation with private Slack groups, but I can't say it's a great option. For people who don't want to be checking their smartphone constantly, it feels like this wild uncontrollable deluge of communication. And people who don't want to install an app on their smartphone quickly stop bothering to go to the website, either.
- samat 8y ago
  We use telegram group chats for that. I guess it would work with WhatsApp too, but sharing pictures and videos on telegram is so quick. I have 3 separate group chats I share stuff with: 1. Family 2. friends from uni and 3. colleagues from old work.
taude 8y ago
This is basically what Path was....though they had some mis-steps along the way.
Ftuuky 8y ago
My family does that with a Whatsapp group.