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I wish him the best on this endeavor. We've bought, rebuilt, redesigned Fotolog in 2017 and we failed to lift the social network, even with 50M users. The only
by meerita 4y ago
I wish him the best on this endeavor. We've bought, rebuilt, redesigned Fotolog in 2017 and we failed to lift the social network, even with 50M users. The only solution I saw to this problem, isn't technology but convincing people to come back or use this social network over others.
I have learned that social networks obeys to generations more than to features. People only switch when a new generation operates on the social network. So, in order to make Orkut succesful, the founder will have to work hard to convince the new generation (those who know have 15yo onwards up to 24yo) to use the platform and gain ownership.
- galacticdessert 4y agoOh I soooo miss Fotolog, was a great concept
- boredemployee 4y agoMe too! I was 16 when created my account there, man time flies!
- civilized 4y ago> I have learned that social networks obeys to generations more than to features. People only switch when a new generation operates on the social network This feels deeply right and helps explain why FB succeeded. For a few years it really was the place for Millennials in college and grad school. Posting your social life to FB felt meaningful. I wonder how things feel to people currently in that life stage.
- rossdavidh 4y agoAs father of a 16-year old girl, I can say neither her nor any of her friends have FB accounts. Youtube, TikTok, sometimes other things, but mostly they use text chat to communicate.
- emmo 4y agoThat's the idea though, right? She's the new generation.
- civilized 4y agotext, like SMS?
- no-reply 4y agoSMS or iMessage.
- rossdavidh 4y agoyes, not that she would call it that, she just hits the app called "Text" on her smartphone.
- outericky 4y agoalso instagram chat and snapchat
- majani 4y agoNowadays the need for Facebook arises after you finish school and want to reconnect with lost friends
- simjnd 4y ago- boomers are on Facebook - mid to late 20s are on Instagram - late teenagers to mid 20s are on Snapchat - younger than that they're on TikTok - everyone is on YouTube - nerds are on Twitter
- msmenardi 4y agoWhat about everyone between "late 20s" and "boomers"?
- cercatrova 4y ago> I wonder how things feel to people currently in that life stage. Those that come after do not use Facebook. They use other Meta products, like Instagram, and non-Meta products like TikTok. This is precisely the genius of Zuck, because he understood > I have learned that social networks obeys to generations more than to features. People only switch when a new generation operates on the social network. way before most people and was ruthless in acquiring or shutting down competitors. That is why Meta is still alive today while many other social networks are dead.
- zanellato19 4y agoWhich is why those acquisitions should not have been allowed. We would have a much more competitive space right now if Facebook wasn't allowed to just buy their competitors.
- cercatrova 4y agoPerhaps. Even still, social networks ebb and flow, there is no guarantee that people will continue to use Instagram in the future, so even as they were acquired, it might have been for naught in the end.
- personlurking 4y agoWow, Fotolog and Orkut. Brings me back to when I was first discovering Brazilian culture and learning Portuguese in the early/mid 2000s.
- phreack 4y agoAt first Facebook seemed to eat up Fotolog because of novelty and being able to do just a bit more than uploading pictures, but right as it did it decided to bloat and destroy the feed so people had no way to share pictures and be seen. That's when Instagram became huge and then got acquired by Facebook - because you had a place to share pictures again. Then they felt threatened by Snapchat so they added disappearing content and now they feel threatened by TikTok so they're mainlining video. The end result is that there's no active social network for pictures anymore - it feels like a good time for a Fotolog to come back, to make an attempt at memory permanence and small community connection instead of massively reaching disposable video.
- meerita 4y agoFotolog killed itself after the original owners sold the company. The new owners didn't upgrade de company properly, it was matter of time any other company took over, and it was Instagram. Fotolog missed this wave because it didn't make the iPhone app and when they started, it was late. In fact, it was almost imposible due the tech stack it was operating pretty 2004-5 stack. In 2008 things were moving on other direction.