Ah, very good point.
Really interesting short thread on why Twitter(!) and Instagram might be more valuable than Facebook in the long run. I’d never considered how FB is vulnerable because its network is to a large extent encoded elsewhere (i.e., mobile contacts).https://twitter.com/naval/status/960043995580678145 …
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Hm, not true for me. Lots of fb friends whose numbers/emails I don't know, although we hang out in person regularly. Also lots of fb connections that I have no cxn with elsewhere and wouldn't easily be able to make one.
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Yeah sounds like there are a few different FB usage patterns (and Twitter usage patterns, for that matter), making this kind of thinking more difficult/perilous.
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I disagree with that, I have far more people on my facebook than I have in my phone contacts
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Yeah it’s not perfect. But I’d bet that, for most people, the overlap between phone and FB is much stronger than the overlap between phone and Twitter/Insta.
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I’m not convinced: for me,
@naval, and you, Twitter contacts are totally different from Facebook/phonebook ones, yes. But for the average user? 90% of my real life friends only follow phone book contacts and/or sports players (who are easy to guess for a new app). -
This is a good point. I suspect the open-follow model of Twitter/Insta leads more users to deviate from their IRL contacts, but I don’t really know.
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@naval Another way to think about it as graph built out of self-interest (following interesting people) vs social pressures -
Reddit is similar to Twitter, but instead of a graph of individuals one builds a graph of collectives
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I rarely use Facebook anymore. Only 1 datapoint but I’m sure felt by many.
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