We accidentally recreated old Facebook
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Perhaps the question is how to continue to create high-trust environments from a social perspective, not an interface perspective.
Facebook figured out how to scale this high-trust environment infinitely (mutual friending required, limiting engagement to friends or mutuals, etc), and then threw it all away when your feed stopped being "your dear friend Jenny got married" and became "your dear friend Dua Lipa wants you to buy her new album".
No. My family was _not_ using it. The people who attended the same university were. Some of the change was when everyone had to moderate their output for different social contexts/audiences.
Lots and lots of thinly disguised ads, though.
So they started to loosen things: you can follow others, posts can be public, your feed becomes a mix of posts in your network and friends posts, etc. Now it is resembling Reddit. Numbers go up!
That is to say: these pure friend social networks start off with the right intentions. But with a similar product and incentives, you’ll end up right around where Facebook is now. If you want a different outcome, you must start from a different place.
There was no "like" for posts but a much more evolved system: you could brand posts as interresting, informative, insightful, funny, underrated, overrated, flamebait or troll.
Slashdot was never a social media, but it sure had a few features that could have been used to turn it into an interresting one.
- It's a photo album. Anyone who can view your page can see your photos.
- You can also post status updates.
- It publishes a list of your friends. Anyone is free to check that out.
- Your friends can write on your wall, where anyone can see what they wrote.
- It publishes your biographical data: where you go (or went) to school, where you work, whether you're single, and if not what kind of relationship you're in.
- You belong to a number of "groups". The groups don't organize activities or act as chat channels; their purpose is that your page displays a list of the names of the groups to which you belong, and that list is an expression of your personality and/or ideological commitments.
Which of those do WhatsApp groups do?
Used to be there was a whole section of the site meant for connecting with people at the same college/university as you, that you were automatically included in based on your email domain. It had a calendar and events and was geared towards real-world interaction.
"Groups" is 2004. Their domain was still "thefacebook.com".
I do remember Friend Lists were much earlier though.
No, I'm not thinking of something else. You are assuming that when I say "groups", I'm thinking of the feature called "Facebook Groups" in your link, which is a stupid thing for you to assume.
Here's a preserved screenshot of a 2005 page: https://www.shareaholic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/...
See the link in the left-hand sidebar saying "My Groups"?
My friends and I have silly group threads but they fizzle out fairly quickly because everyone is worried I think that they could be bothering people during the workday with a rather high-priority notification.
Instagram is better, like you say, because we can absorb the links and gifs passively.
Is there a way to make this an add-on to another product that people are already on? Or a site that pulls data from another product?
This is such a weird premise, I can already search photos by people on my phone or Mac, but that also lets me find photos without people in.
The other thing is that it isn't straightforward to pass on existing photos to children. I inherited boxes of photo albums and VHS tapes from my childhood, but it's a lot more complicated to share a whole bunch of memories with future generations; adding a placeholder to a bunch of albums that someone else can inherit later just makes more sense to me.
My god, they really did recreate Facebook
So were heroin and cocaine, which were sold commercially for 25 and 40 years, respectively