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Alessandro Canella

What will be the future of social media?

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We are witnessing social media moving at an unbelievable pace. You wake up everyday learning about new trends. With all the hype around meta not being able to match the expectations, to Elon Musk doing some peculiar activities with Twitter. Are we about to jump into the new dimension of social media? If yes, then what are your thoughts?
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Sebastian Janus - derStartupCFO
The explosion of visuals Video will probably get more attention than words than ever. And with VR starting to act as a powerful platform, video will dominate even more.
Alessandro Canella
@derstartupcfo Visuals are the essence, my friend! 😊
Robert Ford
Social media will only continue to grow, almost exponentially, and will not stay stagnant for long. It's only a matter of where the technology that we're using today would be perfected in the future.
Alessandro Canella
@secure_slate Alright, thanks for sharing 😊
Igor Sadkin
As we’ve seen in the recent past, social media has been a useful tool for the media. It allows us to be informed, stay connected and get a feel for what’s going on in the world. However, it’s also seen as a potential threat to the traditional media. And there are concerns that social media is putting pressure on the news industry. Social media is changing the way people consume news. And it's changing the way news is produced. And only one question really remains - what will Elon Musk do with Twitter?
Alessandro Canella
@igor_sadkin Right Igor. Let's wait for the surprises 🎁
Colin Johnson
Farcaster :)
Alessandro Canella
@colin_johnson5 Could you please give me a brief about that? I'm interested to learn more.
Colin Johnson
@alessandro_canella Sure! It's in beta currently, so you'll need to request an invite from Dan Romero on Twitter. It's basically a semi-decentralized social platform, where your ID is stored on chain but the media/text is stored off-chain for scaling. https://www.farcaster.xyz
Alessandro Canella
@colin_johnson5 Sounds interesting! I'll give it a look
Aaron
I think the basic logic will not change for years because that depends on human nature. As to the product, the monopoly will continue for a long while until the next revolution of the device come. New interactions and new Scenes are the future of social media. But we got a long way to go, just look at the situation of Meta..... By the way, Elon has mentioned a lot of times for WeChat, he wants to make twitter another WeChat, but I think it's too late. Because WeChat achieves monopoly positions in many other industries in China, it combines lots of resources.
Alessandro Canella
@ty_zhang I agree to an extent! Meta is not living up to the hype it created. I also believe that bringing vines back to Twitter will kill its unique identity. Does everybody wants to dance at songs for 15 seconds? Does Twitter needs it? I don't think so.
Aaron
@alessandro_canella That is so true, not everybody wants to spend their life for countless 15-seconds.
Alessandro Canella
@ty_zhang Correct!
Ashley Sharma
There will be more personal ownership of data. Individuals will be able to manage data across platforms in a more centralized way.
Alessandro Canella
@ashleysharma Do you think blockchain can help us with it? Although it came as a decentralized network solution.
Karis Balôck
no code will allow everyone and every company to create it's own micro-social plateform. Live conversations and deeper debates in smaller communities will rise. As awareness of the mental health issues caused by social media and abuse of entertainment will rise, people can try to use social media for real-world causes and feel-good interractions. The climate and environmental crisis will make it less and less probable for a certain subset of people to use social media just for fun. to illustrate, see how some people use Geneva app or Slack as a small scale social Media, and as for some, private messaging has become the main way to connect with people.
Alessandro Canella
@eve_angelique I agree but I have been hearing about such changes for a long time but haven't seen much change to be honest. Maybe people don't want deeper topics to be a mainstay in social media.
Karis Balôck
@alessandro_canella The social media I use is only topic-focused : a Genevaapp home for natural hair care, and a slack space that's basically used as social media for my church. I think there will be more and more of these communities, and those of us who like to think will form a subculture using our own communities' platform. We are too conscious of social media's bad effect to keep letting big companies dictate what news we get, and what people we interract with.
Alessandro Canella
@eve_angelique Interesting! Thanks for the new insight
Colin Johnson
Farcaster is pretty great (although small scale)
Alessandro Canella
@colin_johnson5 Sounds interesting! I'd like to learn more about Farcaster 😊
Mat Wiemann
I think social media generally helps people stay connected and get to know people based on shared interests to learn from each other. This is a basic need, so it's not going away. With the advent of AI everywhere we will see more and more interesting use cases that allows us to express ourselves better and gives us new opportunities helps grow our skillset by adapting information to our expertise. Fake news is just a precursor to adaptive news. It will be information we can easily consume that is good for us - makes us more open - vs. information that is easy to consume, but is bad because it makes our worldview more narrow. So much untapped potential... Let's get to work!
Alessandro Canella
@wiemann I really appreciate your pov. I agree with this. Thanks for sharing😊✔
Failmane
I think that in the near future we will see the transformation of social networks into meta-universes, most likely using augmented reality technology.
Alessandro Canella
@fail_men Alright. Let's see what future holds 😉
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