fine, I'll rephrase: social products. Remember Google+? You and 10 other people do. Most people's memory of Google+ was how to avoid it after it became a mandatory thing for all gmail users, and then it was just gone. So yeah, people really liked that product
Imo Google (basically by accident) owns the best place social network for the next decade - YouTube.
Human generated content will become rare and more valuable, which is why the remaining non walled gardens (Reddit and Twitter) are quickly raising the drawbridge.
Video will be the last medium to fall to AI generated content pretending to be human generated, and by cloning tiktok across to YouTube shorts they remove the barriers to entry for humans.
Social media nowdays is not about friends, itβs about algorithms & creator monetization. YouTube is #1 on monetization by a huge margin.
Any text based social media network will be absolutely overrun with LLMs.
> Imo Google (basically by accident) owns the best place social network for the next decade - YouTube.
Does it? I mostly use YouTube on my Apple TV, and the few times I open it elsewhere, I barely check the comments other than to check the audience reception. There are no conversations there.
> Imo Google (basically by accident) owns the best place social network for the next decade - YouTube.
That's pretty damn sad. Limiting discussion to some video link is just not very social to me. Facebook was the best overall to me until they fucked it up. As a concept, it is the most diverse in allowing users to be social with the various types of posts. Sure, you can do videos, images, text only, but also the events, direct messaging, and other features that i don't really remember because i haven't been there in 10 years.
