Social Networks

Social Networking 2.0 from Stratechery

• 12/26/2020
• v1 digital products simply copy what already exists offline. V2 makes it better.
  • example: peronsalized news feed + advertising vs newspapers
• Social networks:

  • Twitter’s incompetence didn’t simply make Facebook’s advertising business look more dominant than it should have; it led all of us — including the FTC — to miss the point that friends and family was Social Networking 1.0: something imported from the analog world that, as time goes on, will be viewed as inferior to the far richer universe that is Social Networking 2.0.

  • real life: conflict b/w your whole self & partial interest overlap with other friends/family

    The fact that I am not my whole self in any of these groups is a feature, not a bug, and one that is uniquely made possible by digital.