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I wasn't aware of how Facebook won over MySpace by using a bot to allow you to use MySpace THROUGH Facebook so you didn't really lose anything when you opened a

I wasn't aware of how Facebook won over MySpace by using a bot to allow you to use MySpace THROUGH Facebook so you didn't really lose anything when you opened a Facebook account and started using it. Now why couldn't there be a service that was simply a super-bot, it would automatically open an account for me on all social media platforms. It would then post all my entries to all other platforms, relay the responses back to me. Why not?

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Centigonal 4y ago
These exist for companies to unify their social media presence. See Sprinklr and Qualtrics Social Connect. I bet a personal service that does this will face efforts by platform operators to block them - but I'm sure that could also be circumvented.
29athrowaway 4y ago
And before, many people were on ICQ, MSN, AOL, etc. Then before that you got BBSes, CompuServe, Minitel, etc. And before that you probably got Ham radio.
- wrycoder 4y ago
  Don’t forget IRC, USENET, and plain old email lists, like Mailman.
  - travisgriggs 4y ago
    comp.lang.* I miss thee. Pre-the-spam that is.
- midoridensha 4y ago
  I never understood the attraction of Ham radio, outside the technical aspect (building fancy radio equipment) if you're into electronics, and I'm old enough that Ham was still a thing when I was growing up and I had one friend that was really into it. Unlike all the online services where there were separate channels for different interests, even back in the BBS/Compu$erve days, ham radio had no such thing, it was just random people. You might as well just go hang out at a bar and talk to random people there; the quality of conversation won't be any different.
  - galaxyLogic 4y ago
    It was a club. You had to pay for the radio to join, and you had to be skillful enough to operate it. In other words my kinda buddy. Now I wonder what if there was social media you had to pay to join?
rendall 4y ago
> Now why couldn't there be a service that was simply a super-bot, it would automatically open an account for me on all social media platforms. It would then post all my entries to all other platforms, relay the responses back to me. Why not? The part of the article's analysis about switching costs is spot on. Facebook is aggressive about keeping switching costs high. It is against the ToS of Facebook users to give their password to any service like that, and they will shut down any account they suspect does this.
- galaxyLogic 4y ago
  Ah, but they did it themselves with MySpace! What's good for the geese.
- galaxyLogic 4y ago
  > against the ToS of Facebook users to give their password to any service like that What if it was not a service but an application I download and run on my PC? I'm not sure how ToS could forbid that, me running an application on my PC.
  - TheHappyOddish 4y ago
    Why wouldn't it? They can suspend your account for using a third party application to access their servers.
slater- 4y ago
"Ryan, you have a WUPHF on line 1"

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Centigonal 4y ago

These exist for companies to unify their social media presence. See Sprinklr and Qualtrics Social Connect. I bet a personal service that does this will face efforts by platform operators to block them - but I'm sure that could also be circumvented.

29athrowaway 4y ago

And before, many people were on ICQ, MSN, AOL, etc. Then before that you got BBSes, CompuServe, Minitel, etc. And before that you probably got Ham radio.

wrycoder 4y ago
Don’t forget IRC, USENET, and plain old email lists, like Mailman.
- travisgriggs 4y ago
  comp.lang.* I miss thee. Pre-the-spam that is.
midoridensha 4y ago
I never understood the attraction of Ham radio, outside the technical aspect (building fancy radio equipment) if you're into electronics, and I'm old enough that Ham was still a thing when I was growing up and I had one friend that was really into it. Unlike all the online services where there were separate channels for different interests, even back in the BBS/Compu$erve days, ham radio had no such thing, it was just random people. You might as well just go hang out at a bar and talk to random people there; the quality of conversation won't be any different.
- galaxyLogic 4y ago
  It was a club. You had to pay for the radio to join, and you had to be skillful enough to operate it. In other words my kinda buddy. Now I wonder what if there was social media you had to pay to join?

rendall 4y ago

> Now why couldn't there be a service that was simply a super-bot, it would automatically open an account for me on all social media platforms. It would then post all my entries to all other platforms, relay the responses back to me. Why not? The part of the article's analysis about switching costs is spot on. Facebook is aggressive about keeping switching costs high. It is against the ToS of Facebook users to give their password to any service like that, and they will shut down any account they suspect does this.

galaxyLogic 4y ago
Ah, but they did it themselves with MySpace! What's good for the geese.
galaxyLogic 4y ago
> against the ToS of Facebook users to give their password to any service like that What if it was not a service but an application I download and run on my PC? I'm not sure how ToS could forbid that, me running an application on my PC.
- TheHappyOddish 4y ago
  Why wouldn't it? They can suspend your account for using a third party application to access their servers.

slater- 4y ago

"Ryan, you have a WUPHF on line 1"