“Successful” is an odd concept with it comes to social media. Most people would call Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, etc, successful. I think that’s like saying oxycontin is successful, or McDonalds is successful, or Doritos is successful. It depends on the point of view you’re looking at it from.
There’s an argument to be made that it’s better to influence a small number of people profoundly, then influence a large number of people negligibly (as you might do on larger networks, where any influence you might have will be almost entirely washed away by whatever is more viral). In fact, that’s why I’m on LessWrong, the scale is more apt.
Sorry, yes, that sentence was only trying to talk about successful social networks.
“Successful” is an odd concept with it comes to social media. Most people would call Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, etc, successful. I think that’s like saying oxycontin is successful, or McDonalds is successful, or Doritos is successful. It depends on the point of view you’re looking at it from.
There’s an argument to be made that it’s better to influence a small number of people profoundly, then influence a large number of people negligibly (as you might do on larger networks, where any influence you might have will be almost entirely washed away by whatever is more viral). In fact, that’s why I’m on LessWrong, the scale is more apt.