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> Eventually we are going to have open federated online social communication Is there a true need for it? Everyday people use Facebook and Twitter because it's
by GuiA 12y ago
> Eventually we are going to have open federated online social communication
Is there a true need for it? Everyday people use Facebook and Twitter because it's free, but I highly doubt they'd pay for it. The real "social networks" are text messaging and email as far as most of my non techie friends are concerned.
- igravious 12y agoAh. Thank you. You made me realise something. The difference is, text messaging and email allow you to communicate linguistically with people within your social network in a peer-to-peer (one-to-one) fashion -- whereas a social network platform allows you to define contacts and their relation to you and use a befriend/unfriend, follow/unfollow model where once befriended or followed you automatically get delivered (in theory, unless muted or an algo decides otherwise) broadcast (one-to-many) messages Did I get it right? I think so? Devil's in the details...