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Social media networks are like night clubs.

Myspace was edgy and underground, then it got invaded by the masses and it was no longer trendy, so everyone went to Facebook.

Facebook was good for a while but now your parents and family are in every conversation. How much fun can you have in a nightclub with your parents watching everything you do?

Twitter is more like a massive dance hall filled with people shouting at each other. If you stand close to your selected friends it can be fun, and if you get access to the mic on the main stage it can be awesome, but the usual experience is that it's filled with randos.

Snapchat is like.. I don't know. I lost interest in nightclubs before I could get into Snapchat.

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Weird metaphor. 1 Billion people on Facebook daily. Most of twitter's interactions are read only. So according to this idea Facebook is a nightclub the size of china and twitter is one of those weird sex clubs where you watch people behind one way mirrors.

> Facebook was good for a while but now your parents and family are in every conversation. How much fun can you have in a nightclub with your parents watching everything you do?

The reports about Facebook's decline are greatly exaggerated imho. I don't use it myself but every time I side glance at someone's phone the FB app seems to be in the foreground. It seems that it's no longer cool to admit using it very often but I think most people do, regardless of what they say to one another.

Meanwhile, we all still have email, phones, snail mail and texting.

I hardly use email outside of work (what is it for, other than receiving newsletters I've lost interest in?), my phone is just for the internet, snail mail is literally just for spam and government communications, and texting has been replaced with Facebook Messenger/WhatsApp/Snapchat/literally anything.

XMPP died though, and Matrix hasn't yet replaced it as it should, which is a problem.

XMPP died? There must be a bug in my Pidgin then, it claims to still be connected to my XMPP server. /s

And blogs.

This begs for a description of HN as a nightclub.

Must be prepared for rust...y dance moves

Let's not golang there.

Many things are ephemeral, so what?

Motorola was the most popular phone, then Nokia, Blackberry, iPhone and now Android.

In the social media game, it is important for businesses to understand the movements of popularity.

Android is an OS, not a phone.

> iPhone and now Android

Huh?

Android has approximately 85% of worldwide market. I think his statement is justified.

While Android is a smartphone OS, it is questionable whether android devices are being used as smartphones by majority of the users who have android devices.

Most of those phones are at the extreme low end and aren't used as smartphones the way iPhones are

And yet the Play Store generates way less money than the App Store. It's ridiculous how lopsided the difference is actually. I mean, does that 15% really have more spendable money than the other 85%? Something else has to account for these results.

Android is more popular in emerging markets. In most of these markets cash or mobile money payments are common. Most banks locally charge a monthly fee to have your card enabled to do online payments which is a pain in itself. Oflate things have started to change as most retail giants have started offering branded prepaid cards for both online payments and loyalty points.

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