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Reality is that facebook hit the jackpot of era of digitisation of social groups. Which means groups are online now, but also extremely radicalised (politically
by octacat 3y ago
Reality is that facebook hit the jackpot of era of digitisation of social groups.
Which means groups are online now, but also extremely radicalised (politically).
Tiktok algo knows what stuff to show you and what stuff you will never ever see, because you are from a different social group (but cat videos would be shown to anyone).
IG was showing you stuff from people you follow, but it does not work anymore, once people start posting controversial opinions (which they do, once they use TikTok long enough, because the algo pushes radical opinions to the top, they catch attention).
Offline groups would have to be less radical for its members, because of fear of rejection from a group. So, the answer is "there is nothing to digitise, the only way to go: A. build offline groups - nobody wants it. B. Do the same as Facebook/Twitter/Reddit - but good luck competing).
If the old way of Facebook worked, FB would use the old way.
- godshatter 3y ago> If the old way of Facebook worked, FB would use the old way. Not necessarily. If the old way of Facebook worked (i.e. was profitable) but it wasn't as profitable as the new way, FB still wouldn't use it. But some other company might be able to get away with it.
- octacat 3y agoNot necessarily, but most likely. If there is a way to make more profit, any company would try to do it. The moment service stops growing, aggressive monetisation kicks in. Otherwise, investors/shareholders would blame CEO for incompetence.