Por qué fracasaron estas redes sociales

Articulo que explica por qué fracasaron una serie de redes sociales en los últimos 10 años.

Las redes sociales de las que habla son:

Friendster (2002-2015)
Myspace (2003-present)
Bebo (2005-2013)
OpenSocial (2007-??)
ConnectU (2002-2008)
Tribe.net (2003-2008)
Path (2010-2018)
Yik Yak (2013-2017)
Ello (2014-present)
Orkut (2004-2014)
Google+ (2011-2019)
Vine (2012-2016)

El artículo esta en ingles.



Inicio del articulo:
Sixteen years ago, the sun set on Web 1.0, and we embarked by the light of our smartphones to 24/7 connectivity, down a road paved with corporate blunders, littered with yesterday’s top 8 friends, scrubbed n00ds, trashed chiptune tracks, bomb threats, and downy unicorn costumes. Comedic treasures were born and abandoned by parent companies; screaming crowds running through billowing tear gas from police vanished behind defunct video players. Devs dreamed of love, artists of postmodern interfaces, and unknowns of entertainment careers. Netizens injured themselves for stunts, by accident, and on purpose. We submitted to our overlord Mark Zuckerberg and the army of influencers. And so many rubber ducks wailed.

“Their obituaries tell us what we already know–that your feed could look a lot more interesting, more avant-garde, joyous, local, intimate, kinky, weird, and hilarious–and yes, scarier and even more hateful than it does now.”
Lots of corporations (mostly Google) have competed with Facebook for the social media colonies, and their attempts aren’t missed; but Facebook’s monopoly also beat out the divey-er venues and communal spaces which elevated their members to five minutes of fame and triple platinum albums without sponcon. Their obituaries tell us what we already know–that your feed could look a lot more interesting, more avant-garde, joyous, local, intimate, kinky, weird, and hilarious–and yes, scarier and even more hateful than it does now–thanks to varying degrees of censorship, cross-platform embeds, aesthetic customization, technopanic, and algorithm-free zones. It’s not to say that without Facebook, the whole internet would be more like a local farmer’s market or a punk venue or an art gallery or comedy club or a Narnia fanfic club, just that those places are harder to find these days.


Fuentes
Artículo: "Why These Social Networks Failed So Badly" Publicado en  https://gizmodo.com POR Whitney Kimball el 19/08/2019.
URL: https://gizmodo.com/why-these-social-networks-failed-so-badly-1836996164