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Social networks are hotels, right. - First they are new and cool. The young, hip and rich stay often. - New becomes old. Shoddy carpet, old fixtures, bad musi
by jollofricepeas 4y ago
Social networks are hotels, right.
- First they are new and cool. The young, hip and rich stay often.
- New becomes old. Shoddy carpet, old fixtures, bad music in the lobby but older people stay until they die.
- New hotels sprout up with cool carpet, music and fixtures. The cycle repeats.
The only way we can ditch them is to ban them and then they’ll go underground :(
What is dead may never die.
- eriknj99 4y agoYou can checkout any time you like but you can never leave
- 7thaccount 4y agoacoustic guitar intensifies for a brief solo Seriously though, your comment gave me a great laugh this morning and made me think about how much of our communication is built off shared pop culture.
- shivekkhurana 4y agoMost of them also happen to be in California.
- mym1990 4y agoTo me the difference is that 1) you pay for hotels and you know exactly what the cost is 2) hotels provide a tangible benefit, mostly being the bed to sleep in. Social media often has this idea that it is “free” and so people don’t think about the massive amounts of time and privacy that is given up as the hours whizz by.
- JohnFen 4y agoHotels where you don't pay rent, in exchange for the hotel recording everything you do in the room, in the lobby, and if you aren't careful, putting a GPS tracker on your person.
- kwhitefoot 4y agoI doubt that a recording of everything I do in a hotel room would be valuable enough to pay for the room. Pity really, I'd quite like to do some touring without having to pay!
- 6510 4y agoI've done extensive research into providing free services (of many kinds) It is not at all problematic to extract enough value from a conventional hotel visitor to pay for their room. The real puzzle is that a free room doesn't attract that kind of people. You get people who feel obligated to draw penises on the wall, shit in the sink and stab holes in your mattress. The normal audience you get, after making the reservations and/or picking up the key mostly wont be in the room because they don't need it. Whatever plot one was to come up with to realize it it is almost guaranteed that it would work better if you charged extra for a room with such creative original features all this wonderful product information as the deeper the pockets the more valuable and less annoying the promotional circus.
- gretch 4y agoI don't know if you meant this facetiously or not, but I'm pretty sure a LOT of people would want to take this deal if it existed. Which is also why a lot of people are perfectly okay with, and use social media
- mym1990 4y agoAdd to this: every 5 feet you walk you have to watch a 5 second ad. I would actually not be surprised if that is a model in the future for hotels...
- aaronharnly 4y agoI like the metaphor. Next, people think “we need AirBnB! Not stodgy old hotels, but cool, real homes owned by real people, where individuals can provide hospitality to each other and everyone wins.” Consequence: independent operators take on the soulless characteristics of hotels but without the accountability or reliability. I can see us entering the AirBnB era of social networks soon…
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- mmcgaha 4y agoBlogs with RSS?
- mindtricks 4y agoThere is a whole generation that isn't even familiar with this concept, so you could honestly re-introduce it. It's "TikTok for Text!"
- wyre 4y ago>TikTok for Text That’s basically Reddit, except Reddit also has images and video.
- giancarlostoro 4y agoHotels where you don't pay rent, but everything is sponsored ad placement. I wish I could run a hotel like that in real life, just ads everywhere.
- gibspaulding 4y agoSounds like a casino.
- bitxbitxbitcoin 4y agoThere’s no free rent at a casino unless you are proven to be a gambler though - or am I mistaken.
- namaria 4y agoCivilization is fast becoming a casino. Housing is increasingly expensive, most offers are some money-for-dopamine deal. Social media is a never ending row of slot machines. We keep betting small chunks of attention that we will have a mythical pay-off (fame, love, glory), and most just waste away pressing the buttons and looking at the colors change for ever.
- chao- 4y agoIn what way does something becoming expensive (in this case housing) make it like a casino? And what would be a flip-side for that metaphor ("housing prices are remaining where they are, which is like {{thing}}")? Not disagreeing you, just unable to follow the connection you are making.
- namaria 4y agoHousing used to be about acquiring acceptable shelter. Now it's more like paying high fees for temporary arrangements... Civilization should be about diverse spaces people can build together but lately it's more like living in a planet size casino with a dumpster fire out back...
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- sleepybrett 4y agoYeah social networks seem to be 'generationally sticky'. This is probably just network effect shit. You and all your friends are on instagram and use instagram together as your 'main channel'. Tik Tok comes along, some join but some don't. But the next generation they join Tik Tok as their 'main channel' .. the process repeats. Essentially: Facebook = boomers Twitter. = genx insta. = geny ... (but for some other shorter generational definition)
- dangerwill 4y agoI'm sorry what? This is absurd take, to think of hotels as a recent invention where they have been "new and cool", like social media. Hotels are just a formalized way to provide temporary accommodation for money, which has existed as a class of business since trade has existed. The wayside tavern in ancient villages is an exact 1:1 analog with your travel inn motel today. This comparison makes 0 sense