LiveJournal, a site for keeping up with school friends, combined blogging and social networking features inspired by the WELL.

LiveJournal was one of the series of social networking business models that emerged, each time offering more advanced tools for user interaction.

LiveJournal was launched as a site for personal journaling and later evolved into a social blogging platform.

LiveJournal has a unique feature of customizable drag categories for sorting, which can impact user engagement by allowing users to personalize their experience.

The platform has a system of 'applause' which can be used to reward authors and increase their visibility, but can also lead to unfair competition and erosion of the true value of content.

The failure to adapt to changing trends is a factor that contributes to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

Privacy concerns are a factor that contributes to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

Intense competition is a factor that contributes to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

The emergence of more alternatives is a factor that contributes to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

The lack of innovation can lead to the demise of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

Failure to address issues such as spam and privacy concerns can lead to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

The failure to monetize content effectively can lead to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

LiveJournal, a site for keeping up with school friends, combined blogging and social networking features inspired by the WELL.

Title:

Content: Regulators Seem to Think That Facebook Is the Internet

That’s a problem.

In 1997, SixDegrees.com was the first real attempt at social networking, creating a space where users could upload their information and list their friends. The site peaked at approximately 3.5 million users before it shut down in 1999.

Since then, a series of social networking business models have emerged, each time offering more advanced tools for user interaction. LiveJournal, a site for keeping up with school friends, combined blogging and social networking features inspired by the WELL; Friendster was a social network that allowed for increased interaction and control by users; Myspace had open membership and gave users the freedom to customize their pages. In 2005, it—and its 25 million user base—was sold to News Corp. But within three years, Myspace had been surpassed by Facebook, which launched in 2004 for college students and opened to everyone in 2006.

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Advertisement
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As that history shows, in the early days of the internet, disruption was profound and constant: New companies emerged in music, video, e-commerce, publishing, and telephony on an almost yearly basis. The internet appeared to be a space where competition could thrive.

Not anymore.

Today, disruption happens in much smaller ways. The examples are getting fewer because economies of scale have concentrated innovation in the hands of a few players.

More often, disruption comes from regulation—for better or, often, for worse. Current regulation attempts focus on the actions and behavior of some actors—chiefly Facebook—while creating unintended consequences for the internet, particularly fragmentation, or the splintering of the global internet into one that more closely hews territorial borders.

Advertisement

It’s understandable that both the public and regulators might think that regulating “the internet” means focusing on the biggest players. Much of it has to do with the fact that users are often exposed to various types of illegal behavior and content through some of the most popular services that exist on the internet. Fix misinformation, or extremism, or ideological silos, or security on Facebook, the thinking goes, and you’ve fixed it on the internet as a whole.

Advertisement

But this is an unhelpful and misguided narrative. First, the internet is not a monolith, so treating it as if it is simply will not work. Second, many of the issues regulators are trying to address are not internet problems; they are societal. Terrorism, child abuse, and mis- and disinformation are not an offspring of the internet; they existed before the internet, and they will continue to exist after it as they are ingrained in human societies. Yet, they are treated as if they are exclusively internet problems. Third, and most importantly, regulators should stop thinking of the internet as Facebook and treating it as such. In the internet regulatory landscape, there is a mixed bag of different issues, and Facebook’s involvement in all of them, direct or indirect, adds to the current complexity. Content moderation, privacy, intermediary liability, competition, encryption—these are all broader issues related to the internet, not just Facebook. Yet, the pattern that has emerged is to treat them as Facebook issues. What this means is that, instead of focusing on trying to address them in ways appropriate for the entire internet ecosystem, they are addressed through the Facebook lens. This has been quite accurately characterized as the “Facebook Derangement Syndrome.”

Advertisement
Advertisement

The global regulatory agenda is replete with such examples. In the United Kingdom, the Online Safety legislation wants to ban end-to-end encryption because of Facebook’s plan to introduce it as a default setting in its Messenger service. On the other side of the Commonwealth, Australia recently introduced a media bargaining code mainly targeting Facebook. Facebook famously “left” the country before renegotiating a new agreement. Similarly, in what seems to be a coordinated effort, Canada has vowed to work with Australia in an attempt to impose regulatory restrictions on Facebook.

And this trend is not limited to the Commonwealth.

India’s new intermediary guidelines aim at tightening a regulatory grip on Facebook and its partner company WhatsApp while Brazil’s fake news bill, which got approved by the Senate, is focusing on content moderation on Facebook and traceability on WhatsApp. In France, there have been conversations about the introduction of “new rules” for Facebook, while Germany’s Network Enforcement Law—NetzDG—was drafted with the primary focus of taming Facebook. Finally, in the United States, the Trump administration issued an unsuccessful executive order that aimed to regulate Facebook for bias.

Advertisement

This approach of limiting regulation to Facebook is not entirely unusual. It reflects the principal-agent conundrum that, over the years, has allowed companies like Facebook to  propose policies and deploy tools that can have an impact on the way regulation gets to be enforced. The principal-agent problem is predominantly characterized by conflict of interest and moral hazards. Due to information asymmetries, the agent holds the bargaining power, and this creates a few unknowns: The principal is in no position to know the information the agent holds. Even when she does, she cannot be certain that the agent is acting to her best interest. So, the principal ends up focusing squarely on the agent, disregarding any peripheral issues that might be significant.

Advertisement
Advertisement

The principal-agent problem may help explain why governments appear ready to introduce regulation targeting Facebook; however, it does not help explain why, in the process of doing so, the main loser is the internet and its users.

Over the past couple of years, Facebook has said, “We support regulation,” and “we want updated internet regulations to set clear guidelines for addressing today’s toughest challenges.” This statement would be significant if it did not come across as self-serving. At this stage, regulation is inescapable and Facebook knows it—as does the rest of big tech. In an effort to adapt to this new reality, companies often take advantage of their dominant position to drive regulatory processes, often at the expense of regulation itself.

Advertisement

In this context, the question we should be asking is not whether regulation is appropriate, but what are the real implications of regulating in such a manner? There is already an argument that focusing on a few, big players has an impact on the health of innovation and the ability of newcomers to compete. And, then, there is the internet. The internet’s global reach is one of its main strengths. It is a feature, not a bug. Among other things, it allows the maintenance of supply chains all over the world; it allows people to communicate; it lowers costs; and it makes information sharing easier, all the while helping to address societal issues like poverty or climate change.

Advertisement
Advertisement

To this end, the attempt to regulate based on one—or a handful—of companies can jeopardize this very important goal of the internet. It can create fragmentation, in the sense of not allowing data to flow across borders or networks to interconnect, and this can be very real and have a very big impact. It can impose limits on the way information and data gets to be shared and the way networks may interoperate. These are significant trade-offs, and they must be part of any regulation’s process.

Advertisement

So where do we go from here?

For sure, the answer cannot be to stop regulating. We must accept, however, that the current approach often generates unintended consequences that only superficially affect those who must be regulated.

In this light, a possible way forward is to experiment with regulation. Experimental regulation is a relatively underused approach, yet it is flexible enough to accommodate dynamic markets, like the internet. Originally associated with the work of John Dewey, this idea is premised on the fact that, in policymaking, the way we approach theories and strategies of justice depends on “the experience of their pursuit; it is these changes that then allow us to consider how best to achieve our objectives.” The advantage of this thinking is that it considers unintended consequences as an opportunity to better define appropriate regulatory frameworks and how to achieve the desired goals.

Advertisement

Internet regulation does not experiment enough, and when it does, it appears to have the wrong focus. In Australia, for instance, the effort to ensure robust journalism in an age of disinformation in social media platforms led to a “link tax” that undermines the architecture, history, and economics of the internet. This is partly due to the role big tech companies play in the regulatory process. One of the immediate things one can observe with internet regulation is the process some actors deploy: In the beginning, they operate in favor of sustaining existing policies and bureaucracies. The thinking is that longevity brings legitimacy, and as a result, the policy becomes its own cause. Once this strategy is embedded in process, these powerful forces move toward pushing their own regulatory agenda.

Advertisement

It is for this reason that there is a certain appeal toward flexible regulatory systems that allow different units to experiment with different approaches and make room for assessments that separate the relevant from the nonrelevant and preexisting rules. Although experimentation neither offers a drastic approach nor aims to replace traditional routes of regulation, it can limit the risks of politicization, as politics become more context focused.

One of the first things we need is an internet impact assessment that looks at the different parts of the internet’s infrastructure and the effect that regulation may have. It is no longer just about regulating a few actors. It is about protecting the global infrastructure that we all depend on daily.

The internet has a Facebook problem, but the internet is not Facebook.

This article represents the views of the author and not those of his employer, the Internet Society. Facebook is an organization member of the Internet Society.

Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society.

Advertisement

LiveJournal was one of the series of social networking business models that emerged, each time offering more advanced tools for user interaction.

LiveJournal was launched as a site for personal journaling and later evolved into a social blogging platform.

LiveJournal has a unique feature of customizable drag categories for sorting, which can impact user engagement by allowing users to personalize their experience.

Title:

Content: My channel
* Drag categories can be customized sorting
Recover Default OK
Setup
Alert
27 years old, unlicensed drug dealer, repeatedly arrested, this time the judge has not allowed him to be released on bail.
OpenAI Completes Employee Stock Sale with Latest Valuation of $86 Billion
Electronic applause.
A few months ago, I received an electronic gift from my family. It is a paid senior member of a writing platform for a year. It is currently said to be the largest in the United States, and the membership and space for Chinese publishing is yet to be developed.
If you write well, the number of fans plus the "applause" received by the article to a certain extent, you will have the opportunity to open a profit and receive a good reward from the platform.
After a few articles were posted to test the temperature of the water, some people soon received attention, and some people came to "applaud", but from the background record, it was found that the "fans" who paid attention did not actually read the text.
When the good or bad of the text is only determined by the number of views, or whether there is a marked reading record, it is actually unfair.
Clap each other, pay attention to each other, leave messages to each other, and then see if it will attract real fans.
This is probably the "hidden rules" of many writing platforms today, which may not be the original intention of the platform. However, when a bunch of people start to struggle for readers and traffic on the top, and they are consensual and organized to warm up at the same time, they will play some erasing balls and generate some strange atmosphere, and I still respect human wisdom.
Time is limited every day, and it is not enough to spend your spare time writing and enjoying your life, and it is really hard to put up with such administrative tasks as running "dummy contacts."
Perhaps, there is no shortage of authors in the world, the most lacking is that there are readers who are serious about reading and absorbing the text, including myself, whether they can read well the painstaking work written by others.
Although the "applause" of reading other people's articles is only a keystroke, it involves the question of conscience and the truth or falsehood of strength.
It is obviously not fair to judge a person ’ s literary strength simply through such a platform, or even compete with others.
It is not good to live up to the good intentions of the family, since it has become a member of the writing platform, simply post the articles published in the newspaper on the platform, and organize the original text and the published works that may be deleted by the editor one page, and operate as a "portfolio" that is no different from ordinary blogs.
All said "a slap can not be clapped", I thoroughly understood this time, and even in the introduction simply put "do not operate a fan group, so do not pay attention to each other or exchange applause, please understand" and so on.
Sure enough, the number of fans “grew ” to the fifth after the abrupt stop.
Say to the family, they said that spending money does not seem to encourage me, but in exchange for a little joke, I have more embarrassing things for them to broadcast, not a loss.
In the past, when the Internet was not yet developed, writing in traditional newspapers caused readers to resonate and even touched others. It is often difficult to hear the author, but it does exist. The loneliness of writing, usually so, can continue to rely on this realization.
If you ’ re used to relying on “seeing applaud ” to power your writing, then electronic clapping is an invention that makes the author feel more lonely and empty.
The last one.
Rotating Love (7)
The next one.
A filial son of a leisurely world
Extended reading
Super-popular
More >

The platform has a system of 'applause' which can be used to reward authors and increase their visibility, but can also lead to unfair competition and erosion of the true value of content.

The failure to adapt to changing trends is a factor that contributes to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

Title:

Content: 23 / 06 / 2023 - 13: 25
The rise and fall of social networking sites: major projects that have faded over the past years
In recent years, the Internet has seen the rapid rise and subsequent disappearance of social media platforms, which according to studies can be attributed to the failure to adapt to changing trends, privacy concerns, intense competition, and the emergence of more alternatives.
(Getty)
The rapid development of the digital age has brought many changes to the ways of communication over the past years, as the Internet world has witnessed the rise and fall of various communication sites, platforms that once flourished and flourished but eventually faded into oblivion.
In recent years, the Internet has seen the rapid rise and subsequent disappearance of social media platforms, which according to studies can be attributed to the failure to adapt to changing trends, privacy concerns, intense competition, and the emergence of more alternatives, which also indicate the rapid pace of technological progress and the need for continuous innovation.
MySpace has enjoyed unprecedented popularity during the mid-2000s, providing users with a platform to connect, share media and express themselves creatively, however, the decline of MySpace began when Facebook emerged as a dominant force in the social media landscape, studies show that MySpace failed to adapt to the changing preferences of their user base. This resulted in a loss of relevance and decreased user engagement.
Launched in 2004, Orkut was a pioneer in social networking, particularly in countries such as Brazil and India, and despite its early success, Orkut struggled to combat spam, privacy concerns and the rise of rival platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.
As studies indicate, the lack of innovation and failure to address these issues eventually led to their demise in 2014, which also happened with the site "First Messenger" which was once an integral part of the lives of many people on the Internet, allowing users to communicate in real time and facilitate conversations and enhance communication between users. Like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, they have wiped out the site ’ s last hope of survival, amidst this massive and rapid technological development.
In 2011, Google Plus was launched, which was aimed at competing with Facebook and creating a social network within Google ’ s ecosystem, and despite the company ’ s vast resources, it failed to attract a large user base, which led to the fall of the application in 2019, which led to the company ’ s closure of the project due to a decline in the number of users.
In another example, Vine had gained immense popularity with its unique six-second videos, which served as a breeding ground for budding creators and led to numerous viral trends, however, Vine ’ s downfall is attributed to its failure to monetize content effectively, and the emergence of rival and powerful platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat.
Delicious is a harsh example of the fall of a social media platform, where the site faced major challenges due to the lack of effective monetization strategies, and the emergence of new competitors on the platform, which led to a sharp decline in the user base, and ultimately sold and re-launched, under new ownership.

Privacy concerns are a factor that contributes to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

Intense competition is a factor that contributes to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

The emergence of more alternatives is a factor that contributes to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

The lack of innovation can lead to the demise of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

Failure to address issues such as spam and privacy concerns can lead to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

The failure to monetize content effectively can lead to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.


LiveJournal, a site for keeping up with school friends, combined blogging and social networking features inspired by the WELL.

LiveJournal was one of the series of social networking business models that emerged, each time offering more advanced tools for user interaction.

LiveJournal was launched as a site for personal journaling and later evolved into a social blogging platform.

LiveJournal has a unique feature of customizable drag categories for sorting, which can impact user engagement by allowing users to personalize their experience.

The platform has a system of 'applause' which can be used to reward authors and increase their visibility, but can also lead to unfair competition and erosion of the true value of content.

The failure to adapt to changing trends is a factor that contributes to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

Privacy concerns are a factor that contributes to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

Intense competition is a factor that contributes to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

The emergence of more alternatives is a factor that contributes to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

The lack of innovation can lead to the demise of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

Failure to address issues such as spam and privacy concerns can lead to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

The failure to monetize content effectively can lead to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

LiveJournal, a site for keeping up with school friends, combined blogging and social networking features inspired by the WELL.

Title:

Content: Regulators Seem to Think That Facebook Is the Internet

That’s a problem.

In 1997, SixDegrees.com was the first real attempt at social networking, creating a space where users could upload their information and list their friends. The site peaked at approximately 3.5 million users before it shut down in 1999.

Since then, a series of social networking business models have emerged, each time offering more advanced tools for user interaction. LiveJournal, a site for keeping up with school friends, combined blogging and social networking features inspired by the WELL; Friendster was a social network that allowed for increased interaction and control by users; Myspace had open membership and gave users the freedom to customize their pages. In 2005, it—and its 25 million user base—was sold to News Corp. But within three years, Myspace had been surpassed by Facebook, which launched in 2004 for college students and opened to everyone in 2006.

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

As that history shows, in the early days of the internet, disruption was profound and constant: New companies emerged in music, video, e-commerce, publishing, and telephony on an almost yearly basis. The internet appeared to be a space where competition could thrive.

Not anymore.

Today, disruption happens in much smaller ways. The examples are getting fewer because economies of scale have concentrated innovation in the hands of a few players.

More often, disruption comes from regulation—for better or, often, for worse. Current regulation attempts focus on the actions and behavior of some actors—chiefly Facebook—while creating unintended consequences for the internet, particularly fragmentation, or the splintering of the global internet into one that more closely hews territorial borders.

Advertisement

It’s understandable that both the public and regulators might think that regulating “the internet” means focusing on the biggest players. Much of it has to do with the fact that users are often exposed to various types of illegal behavior and content through some of the most popular services that exist on the internet. Fix misinformation, or extremism, or ideological silos, or security on Facebook, the thinking goes, and you’ve fixed it on the internet as a whole.

Advertisement

But this is an unhelpful and misguided narrative. First, the internet is not a monolith, so treating it as if it is simply will not work. Second, many of the issues regulators are trying to address are not internet problems; they are societal. Terrorism, child abuse, and mis- and disinformation are not an offspring of the internet; they existed before the internet, and they will continue to exist after it as they are ingrained in human societies. Yet, they are treated as if they are exclusively internet problems. Third, and most importantly, regulators should stop thinking of the internet as Facebook and treating it as such. In the internet regulatory landscape, there is a mixed bag of different issues, and Facebook’s involvement in all of them, direct or indirect, adds to the current complexity. Content moderation, privacy, intermediary liability, competition, encryption—these are all broader issues related to the internet, not just Facebook. Yet, the pattern that has emerged is to treat them as Facebook issues. What this means is that, instead of focusing on trying to address them in ways appropriate for the entire internet ecosystem, they are addressed through the Facebook lens. This has been quite accurately characterized as the “Facebook Derangement Syndrome.”

Advertisement
Advertisement

The global regulatory agenda is replete with such examples. In the United Kingdom, the Online Safety legislation wants to ban end-to-end encryption because of Facebook’s plan to introduce it as a default setting in its Messenger service. On the other side of the Commonwealth, Australia recently introduced a media bargaining code mainly targeting Facebook. Facebook famously “left” the country before renegotiating a new agreement. Similarly, in what seems to be a coordinated effort, Canada has vowed to work with Australia in an attempt to impose regulatory restrictions on Facebook.

And this trend is not limited to the Commonwealth.

India’s new intermediary guidelines aim at tightening a regulatory grip on Facebook and its partner company WhatsApp while Brazil’s fake news bill, which got approved by the Senate, is focusing on content moderation on Facebook and traceability on WhatsApp. In France, there have been conversations about the introduction of “new rules” for Facebook, while Germany’s Network Enforcement Law—NetzDG—was drafted with the primary focus of taming Facebook. Finally, in the United States, the Trump administration issued an unsuccessful executive order that aimed to regulate Facebook for bias.

Advertisement

This approach of limiting regulation to Facebook is not entirely unusual. It reflects the principal-agent conundrum that, over the years, has allowed companies like Facebook to  propose policies and deploy tools that can have an impact on the way regulation gets to be enforced. The principal-agent problem is predominantly characterized by conflict of interest and moral hazards. Due to information asymmetries, the agent holds the bargaining power, and this creates a few unknowns: The principal is in no position to know the information the agent holds. Even when she does, she cannot be certain that the agent is acting to her best interest. So, the principal ends up focusing squarely on the agent, disregarding any peripheral issues that might be significant.

Advertisement
Advertisement

The principal-agent problem may help explain why governments appear ready to introduce regulation targeting Facebook; however, it does not help explain why, in the process of doing so, the main loser is the internet and its users.

Over the past couple of years, Facebook has said, “We support regulation,” and “we want updated internet regulations to set clear guidelines for addressing today’s toughest challenges.” This statement would be significant if it did not come across as self-serving. At this stage, regulation is inescapable and Facebook knows it—as does the rest of big tech. In an effort to adapt to this new reality, companies often take advantage of their dominant position to drive regulatory processes, often at the expense of regulation itself.

Advertisement

In this context, the question we should be asking is not whether regulation is appropriate, but what are the real implications of regulating in such a manner? There is already an argument that focusing on a few, big players has an impact on the health of innovation and the ability of newcomers to compete. And, then, there is the internet. The internet’s global reach is one of its main strengths. It is a feature, not a bug. Among other things, it allows the maintenance of supply chains all over the world; it allows people to communicate; it lowers costs; and it makes information sharing easier, all the while helping to address societal issues like poverty or climate change.

Advertisement
Advertisement

To this end, the attempt to regulate based on one—or a handful—of companies can jeopardize this very important goal of the internet. It can create fragmentation, in the sense of not allowing data to flow across borders or networks to interconnect, and this can be very real and have a very big impact. It can impose limits on the way information and data gets to be shared and the way networks may interoperate. These are significant trade-offs, and they must be part of any regulation’s process.

Advertisement

So where do we go from here?

For sure, the answer cannot be to stop regulating. We must accept, however, that the current approach often generates unintended consequences that only superficially affect those who must be regulated.

In this light, a possible way forward is to experiment with regulation. Experimental regulation is a relatively underused approach, yet it is flexible enough to accommodate dynamic markets, like the internet. Originally associated with the work of John Dewey, this idea is premised on the fact that, in policymaking, the way we approach theories and strategies of justice depends on “the experience of their pursuit; it is these changes that then allow us to consider how best to achieve our objectives.” The advantage of this thinking is that it considers unintended consequences as an opportunity to better define appropriate regulatory frameworks and how to achieve the desired goals.

Advertisement

Internet regulation does not experiment enough, and when it does, it appears to have the wrong focus. In Australia, for instance, the effort to ensure robust journalism in an age of disinformation in social media platforms led to a “link tax” that undermines the architecture, history, and economics of the internet. This is partly due to the role big tech companies play in the regulatory process. One of the immediate things one can observe with internet regulation is the process some actors deploy: In the beginning, they operate in favor of sustaining existing policies and bureaucracies. The thinking is that longevity brings legitimacy, and as a result, the policy becomes its own cause. Once this strategy is embedded in process, these powerful forces move toward pushing their own regulatory agenda.

Advertisement

It is for this reason that there is a certain appeal toward flexible regulatory systems that allow different units to experiment with different approaches and make room for assessments that separate the relevant from the nonrelevant and preexisting rules. Although experimentation neither offers a drastic approach nor aims to replace traditional routes of regulation, it can limit the risks of politicization, as politics become more context focused.

One of the first things we need is an internet impact assessment that looks at the different parts of the internet’s infrastructure and the effect that regulation may have. It is no longer just about regulating a few actors. It is about protecting the global infrastructure that we all depend on daily.

The internet has a Facebook problem, but the internet is not Facebook.

This article represents the views of the author and not those of his employer, the Internet Society. Facebook is an organization member of the Internet Society.

Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society.

Advertisement

LiveJournal was one of the series of social networking business models that emerged, each time offering more advanced tools for user interaction.

LiveJournal was launched as a site for personal journaling and later evolved into a social blogging platform.

LiveJournal has a unique feature of customizable drag categories for sorting, which can impact user engagement by allowing users to personalize their experience.

Title:

Content: My channel
* Drag categories can be customized sorting
Recover Default OK
Setup
Alert
27 years old, unlicensed drug dealer, repeatedly arrested, this time the judge has not allowed him to be released on bail.
OpenAI Completes Employee Stock Sale with Latest Valuation of $86 Billion
Electronic applause.
A few months ago, I received an electronic gift from my family. It is a paid senior member of a writing platform for a year. It is currently said to be the largest in the United States, and the membership and space for Chinese publishing is yet to be developed.
If you write well, the number of fans plus the "applause" received by the article to a certain extent, you will have the opportunity to open a profit and receive a good reward from the platform.
After a few articles were posted to test the temperature of the water, some people soon received attention, and some people came to "applaud", but from the background record, it was found that the "fans" who paid attention did not actually read the text.
When the good or bad of the text is only determined by the number of views, or whether there is a marked reading record, it is actually unfair.
Clap each other, pay attention to each other, leave messages to each other, and then see if it will attract real fans.
This is probably the "hidden rules" of many writing platforms today, which may not be the original intention of the platform. However, when a bunch of people start to struggle for readers and traffic on the top, and they are consensual and organized to warm up at the same time, they will play some erasing balls and generate some strange atmosphere, and I still respect human wisdom.
Time is limited every day, and it is not enough to spend your spare time writing and enjoying your life, and it is really hard to put up with such administrative tasks as running "dummy contacts."
Perhaps, there is no shortage of authors in the world, the most lacking is that there are readers who are serious about reading and absorbing the text, including myself, whether they can read well the painstaking work written by others.
Although the "applause" of reading other people's articles is only a keystroke, it involves the question of conscience and the truth or falsehood of strength.
It is obviously not fair to judge a person ’ s literary strength simply through such a platform, or even compete with others.
It is not good to live up to the good intentions of the family, since it has become a member of the writing platform, simply post the articles published in the newspaper on the platform, and organize the original text and the published works that may be deleted by the editor one page, and operate as a "portfolio" that is no different from ordinary blogs.
All said "a slap can not be clapped", I thoroughly understood this time, and even in the introduction simply put "do not operate a fan group, so do not pay attention to each other or exchange applause, please understand" and so on.
Sure enough, the number of fans “grew ” to the fifth after the abrupt stop.
Say to the family, they said that spending money does not seem to encourage me, but in exchange for a little joke, I have more embarrassing things for them to broadcast, not a loss.
In the past, when the Internet was not yet developed, writing in traditional newspapers caused readers to resonate and even touched others. It is often difficult to hear the author, but it does exist. The loneliness of writing, usually so, can continue to rely on this realization.
If you ’ re used to relying on “seeing applaud ” to power your writing, then electronic clapping is an invention that makes the author feel more lonely and empty.
The last one.
Rotating Love (7)
The next one.
A filial son of a leisurely world
Extended reading
Super-popular
More >

The platform has a system of 'applause' which can be used to reward authors and increase their visibility, but can also lead to unfair competition and erosion of the true value of content.

The failure to adapt to changing trends is a factor that contributes to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

Title:

Content: 23 / 06 / 2023 - 13: 25
The rise and fall of social networking sites: major projects that have faded over the past years
In recent years, the Internet has seen the rapid rise and subsequent disappearance of social media platforms, which according to studies can be attributed to the failure to adapt to changing trends, privacy concerns, intense competition, and the emergence of more alternatives.
(Getty)
The rapid development of the digital age has brought many changes to the ways of communication over the past years, as the Internet world has witnessed the rise and fall of various communication sites, platforms that once flourished and flourished but eventually faded into oblivion.
In recent years, the Internet has seen the rapid rise and subsequent disappearance of social media platforms, which according to studies can be attributed to the failure to adapt to changing trends, privacy concerns, intense competition, and the emergence of more alternatives, which also indicate the rapid pace of technological progress and the need for continuous innovation.
MySpace has enjoyed unprecedented popularity during the mid-2000s, providing users with a platform to connect, share media and express themselves creatively, however, the decline of MySpace began when Facebook emerged as a dominant force in the social media landscape, studies show that MySpace failed to adapt to the changing preferences of their user base. This resulted in a loss of relevance and decreased user engagement.
Launched in 2004, Orkut was a pioneer in social networking, particularly in countries such as Brazil and India, and despite its early success, Orkut struggled to combat spam, privacy concerns and the rise of rival platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.
As studies indicate, the lack of innovation and failure to address these issues eventually led to their demise in 2014, which also happened with the site "First Messenger" which was once an integral part of the lives of many people on the Internet, allowing users to communicate in real time and facilitate conversations and enhance communication between users. Like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, they have wiped out the site ’ s last hope of survival, amidst this massive and rapid technological development.
In 2011, Google Plus was launched, which was aimed at competing with Facebook and creating a social network within Google ’ s ecosystem, and despite the company ’ s vast resources, it failed to attract a large user base, which led to the fall of the application in 2019, which led to the company ’ s closure of the project due to a decline in the number of users.
In another example, Vine had gained immense popularity with its unique six-second videos, which served as a breeding ground for budding creators and led to numerous viral trends, however, Vine ’ s downfall is attributed to its failure to monetize content effectively, and the emergence of rival and powerful platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat.
Delicious is a harsh example of the fall of a social media platform, where the site faced major challenges due to the lack of effective monetization strategies, and the emergence of new competitors on the platform, which led to a sharp decline in the user base, and ultimately sold and re-launched, under new ownership.

Privacy concerns are a factor that contributes to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

Intense competition is a factor that contributes to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

The emergence of more alternatives is a factor that contributes to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

The lack of innovation can lead to the demise of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

Failure to address issues such as spam and privacy concerns can lead to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.

The failure to monetize content effectively can lead to the decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal.