Today, TechAltar explains Google’s social media app
failures.
We all remember that Google+ was deprecated and
removed much sooner than expected, in the spring of this year.
The speaker believes that Google is very good with
scaling up basic utilities, but not with building social networks where there
is business or possibly political value in the digital map of user’s social
circles. The way they handled their internal workplace values and fired James Damore leads to the impression that they have a superficial understanding of progressive and modern liberal values.
Facebook had been doing this big time for at least four
years when Google+ started and had naïve ideas about concentric or overlapping
social circles.
Facebook has been prodding its users to interact, even
to the point of begging them to run fundraisers for non-profits on their own accounts.
YouTube is a social network inasmuch as it uses subscription
and likes and comments, but it does not prod users to interact. Blogger originally had some of the attributes
of a social network with the follower concept but now that is rather
unimportant.
A true social network now is more like Snapchat, which
is predicated on quick moving ephemeral communications, which Facebook says it
wants to move to.
Being much older, I don’t like to conduct some kinds
of personal relationships on responsive social media (like dating). I am not in a position to ask people go “give
money” to a cause because I said so. I don’t like for people to test me to see
how far I will go with certain problematic situations that many people will
face.
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