Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak | Hacker News
Users are slowly beginning to turn away from social media as a source of great content; a recent Pew report found that about 48% of people get their news from social media, which is a huge number but still down 5% from even a year ago. More creators are forging multi-platform, independent careers, which can make it hard for audiences to find them. ... See more
David Pierce • Spotify for Readers: How Tech Is Inventing Better Ways to Read the Internet
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 Today, they are aging utilities, powering an outdated version of the social internet.
Arjun Sethi • The Hive is the New Network
More broadly, social networks have messed with our privacy settings in more ways than one. Everything is public now, partly due to outrage culture and “social highlight reels,” but as a result, there will be a big pendulum swing back to private networks. Facebook is a lot like Walmart in the sense that it's just utility oriented, and it doesn't rea... See more
Erik Torenberg • Opportunities in Consumer Social
