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The irony in the social graph is that it is an insufficient approximation of people's interest. Initially in 2003 this might have made sense. I.e., I like what
by jsemrau 4y ago
The irony in the social graph is that it is an insufficient approximation of people's interest. Initially in 2003 this might have made sense. I.e., I like what my friends like. Yet 20 years later TikTok claims to have cracked the holy grail of what interests me by focusing only on the swipes / behaviour of the individual. Personally, I think TikTok is quite stupid, but I can see the power of the algorithm. Yet the next generation of "social" might be more of a content pull that a content push.
- bluGill 4y agoMaybe, but the social graph still fills an important function, and that is missing. I want to know what my friends are doing. If I want to see a cute cat tiktok is better, but in general I'm bored with such things now (which tiktok can probably figure out - I don't actually use tiktok so I don't know), but one in a while one of the cats that live with someone I actually know does something cute and I want to see this. This is about the social connection, not about the cat. I go to facebook to keep track of people. It is more important to me to find out if my actual real life friends have done something than to see something engaging. I might well spend more time on TikTok which looks for content I'd enjoy, but FaceBook's social network still takes priority to check regularly even when I don't have time.