Social Graphs are Dead, Long Live Social Graphs - Will the ported existing IG graph of relationships provide enough cat-nip to build a new network? …
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Social Graphs are Dead, Long Live Social Graphs - Will the ported existing IG graph of relationships provide enough cat-nip to build a new network? …
More generally across the next generation of social apps, the traditional social graph will continue to become less relevant as TikTok-like AI-powered algorithmic feeds determine what we see based on what we like. However, I am on the lookout for hybrid solutions that leverage both social graphs alongside AI-powered editing and curation.
from 9 Forecasts for the Near Future, With Implications by Scott Belsky
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- -Our online social graphs are no longer dependent on our offline connections.
from 5 Lessons from China's Internet Companies by Rex Woodbury
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- Facebook, Twitter and Instagram all started life as revolutionary networks that brought existing real-world relationships online. Today, they are aging utilities, powering an outdated version of the social internet.
from The Hive is the New Network by Arjun Sethi
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- The 2000-2020 internet social has been dominated by a handful of players: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram. Yet will it remain exactly as it is ? Most likely no. The Internet Social landscape is undergoing a major change: Decentralization. Momentum is shifting from internet giants to micro-communities.
from The Future of Social by Ariel Renous
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- As social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram grow larger, they skew disproportionately toward supernodes—celebrity, meme and business accounts.
from The Hive is the New Network by Arjun Sethi
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- On the other side, new social spaces will continue to emerge and bring with them new rulesets, dynamics, and discovery algorithms to connect new people in new ways. We argue that this is the primary value of social networks and should be their sole focus: developing and providing different “flavors” of content and algorithms
from Spheres of Self: Performativity and Parasociality in the Metaverse by Koji
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- The second wave of social is about having people be more conscious about building a graph that best matches the needs of what they want to get from that graph. Initially, importing from your contact/address book made sense. But now we can say that was a mistake. You don't need to follow all people you know on all services.
from Tiktok, Emergent Creativity, The Limits of Social Graphs, and whatever else Eugene talked about (E1) by Eugene Wei
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- We'll look back at social graphs and say that it is a mistake to use the social graph to approximate an interest graph. The people you now don't necessarily reflect your interests.
from Tiktok, Emergent Creativity, The Limits of Social Graphs, and whatever else Eugene talked about (E1) by Eugene Wei
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