Perceptive nugget in Kevin Rooses story about cleaning up his feed: We’re in the third social media age — the first represented by Friendster and MySpace; the second by Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn; and the third, the mobile age, which comprises an assortment of apps with single-function premises (Snapchat, Tinder, WhatsApp, Yik Yak, et al.). Due to its sheer size and the way it’s woven into the web’s basic architecture, Facebook is by far the most likely of the second-wave social media companies to survive into the third wave. And unless I want to rebuild my social media presence every so often as other platforms come and go, I’m better off betting on the heavy favorite.
Posted on: Mon, 05 May 2014 15:36:46 +0000
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