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Comment by MrEfficiency | Hacker News Reader

I believe this is a dying problem. The next social media will be based around a real life user.

First name, last name, photo, home address(or similar). Everything verified or at least enough for people to feel like they are talking to real people.

Given how easily reddit is astroturfed by Aldi, Tmobile, Samsung, Tesla, Donald Trump, and more, the next gen social media will revolve around real people rather than usernames and corporate accounts.

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Even accepting your premise as as true (which I don't necessarily), social media isn't the only space in which this problem appears.

The article itself mentions "members of British Parliament [being] blocked from viewing the Sexual Offences Bill they had proposed by a government spam filter"[0] and "the London Horniman museum’s emails [being] flagged because systems thought they meant 'horny man'"[1].

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_politics/2723851.stm [1] http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/533121.Name_of_museum_is_c...

I don't think that accounts for lazy or ignorant programmers trying to limit joke/abusive accounts, though. And that's what the problem has always been.

> First name, last name, photo, home address(or similar). Everything verified or at least enough for people to feel like they are talking to real people.

Unless, of course, the service refuses to acknowledge that some real people exist because they're not white enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_real-name_policy_cont...

I think it's more likely that the next social media will use social graphs more effectively for excluding poor content.

'Retweeting' needs to carry social risk to be high quality. Right now all social media is just a mad scramble for short-term attention metrics.

What makes you feel it'd be any harder to astroturf a site based around real people? Especially for corporate sponsors.

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