The Next Big Social Media Platform Won't Look Like the Current Ones
About this episode
The episode discusses the frustrations with current social media platforms and explores the potential for new alternatives.
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-next-big-social-media-platform-wont-look-like-the-current-ones . A year of conversations with people reveals the same frustrations with algorithmic feeds, misinformation, and lost privacy. Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society . You can also check exclusive content about #social-network , #social-media , #decentralized-social-media , #algorithms , #privacy , #misinformation , #future-of-social-media , #tech-opinion , and more. This story was written by: @iambatman . Learn more about this writer by checking @iambatman's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . After noticing his own compulsive, unsatisfying relationship with social media, the author spent a year deliberately asking people online and in person, across ages and backgrounds whether they felt it too. Nearly everyone did, describing the same handful of problems: addictive design, unexplained irritation, an inability to tell real from fake (especially with AI), a desire for feeds they control, disappearing privacy as data trains AI models, and safety treated as an afterthought. The…
Topics covered
- social media
- algorithmic feeds
- misinformation
- privacy
- decentralized social media
- future of social media
Keywords
- social network
- algorithms
- privacy
- misinformation
- tech opinion
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