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The rise and fall of all social networks is inevitable. Like many things they follow this dynamic where they go out of fashion when too many use it. Currently e
by jcfrei 4y ago
The rise and fall of all social networks is inevitable. Like many things they follow this dynamic where they go out of fashion when too many use it. Currently everybody is moving to TikTok and there's lots of good content there. But that platform too will fade eventually and another one appear.
- barbazoo 4y agoIs there some precedent of this from the past? I haven't heard of this "rule".
- jcfrei 4y agoThe social platform where young people spent most of their time kept changing in the past - I think it went something like this: Netlog > Facebook > Instagram > TikTok. There have been lots of other social networks that have been popular at some point and then eventually declined or even disappeared: Google+, Snapchat, Vine, StudiVZ (German speaking countries), the list goes on...
- barbazoo 4y ago> they go out of fashion when too many use it I just don't see that applying to any of those, certainly not G+ :)
- rchaud 4y agoIt's not at all inevitable. Only US-centric ones are failing after years of dominance, and even then, most have accumulated enough money to pivot into something even more horrifying.
- fullshark 4y agoI thought the same was true as reddit has become terrible imo, but it's still very popular and users seem heavily engaged. The key I think is human curation, even if reddit mods are frequently found to be terrible in odd ways, they keep things healthy compared to AI moderators that eventually end up killing the network.
- jcfrei 4y agoGood point though I would argue you can still see the same dynamics on a subreddit level.