LiveJournal combined blogging and social networking features.

The platform was inspired by the WELL, an earlier online community.

LiveJournal initially served as a site for keeping up with school friends.

LiveJournal evolved from a personal journaling application to a community platform.

LiveJournal enabled user interaction through publishing and commenting on records.

The platform enabled collective blogs, enhancing community-building capabilities.

LiveJournal featured a friends feed similar to modern social media platforms.

LiveJournal's architecture used a multiblog engine with global administration and a poster account system.

The platform allowed users to assign multiple categories, customize templates, and manage comments.

LiveJournal supported image and file uploads, had search functionality, and a user-friendly blog management interface.

LiveJournal was initially developed by Brad Fitzpatrick using PHP and JavaScript.

Facebook's rise contributed to the decline of other social networks like LiveJournal.

Censorship introduced after 2005 significantly contributed to LiveJournal's decline.

The change of ownership impacted LiveJournal's popularity, with manipulated ratings and removed posts.

Government influence contributed to LiveJournal's decline, as it initially resisted but ultimately succumbed to censorship.

The emergence of Facebook and Twitter led to a decline in LiveJournal's popularity.

Failure to adapt to trends and competition contributed to LiveJournal's decline.

The lack of innovation and ineffective monetization contributed to the decline of LiveJournal and other platforms like Orkut.

The decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal, can be attributed to factors such as failure to adapt, privacy concerns, intense competition, and lack of innovation.

User trust is crucial for content sharing platforms like LiveJournal, and a low content creation threshold can make a platform prone to fake notes.

LiveJournal combined blogging and social networking features.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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After Russian users could no longer use foreign social networks, where did they post their blogs?

The platform was inspired by the WELL, an earlier online community.

LiveJournal initially served as a site for keeping up with school friends.

LiveJournal evolved from a personal journaling application to a community platform.

LiveJournal enabled user interaction through publishing and commenting on records.

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Content: LiveJournal is back in Kazakhstan
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Anna VLADIMIROVA
Access to the "Live Journal" was restored after the administration of the LiveJournal blog platform executed the decisions of the judicial authorities of Kazakhstan on the removal of illegal materials posted on the resource.
Representatives of LiveJournal reported on the removal from the blogging platform of materials containing signs of propaganda of terrorism and religious extremism, public calls to commit acts of terrorism and the manufacture of explosive devices.
Earlier, the Saryarka court of Astana issued a decision to close access to the “Live Journal ” from August 20, 2011 due to the distribution of these materials.
As a result, the Committee of Communications, Informatization and Information of the Ministry of Investment and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan decided to resume access to the resource on the territory of Kazakhstan from November 11 this year.
LiveJournal also plans to open a representative office in Kazakhstan and develop the Kazakhstan segment of the blogging platform.
For reference: “Live Journal ” is a blogging platform for keeping online diaries (blogs).
Provides the ability to publish your own and comment on other people ’ s records, conduct collective blogs (“communities ”), add other users to friends and follow their records in the“ friends feed ”.
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The platform enabled collective blogs, enhancing community-building capabilities.

LiveJournal featured a friends feed similar to modern social media platforms.

LiveJournal's architecture used a multiblog engine with global administration and a poster account system.

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Place an order on a freelance exchange and offers will arrive in a few minutes.
General structure:
The external part of the blog consists of
1.
Main page
- Blog title
- Blog slogan (if any)
- X post - center column
* title
* refren
* Permalink | email this post | Comments (0) | Add Comment
Naturally, the title leads to the post.
- Right column
* Archives (here X of the last entries excluding those that are already displayed on the left in the basis)
* Categories (if the blog > 1 category - then just links to the categories)
* Links - links from the database
* Feeds - link to the rss feed of this page
2.
Pages with posts
- Blog title
- Blog description (if any)
- The body of the post
- Pictures if you have * 1
- Comments (all in full)
- Link to the form for posting a comment * 2
- Right column
* Archives (here X last entries excluding this and in the category in which this post is located)
* Categories (if the blog > 1 category - then just links to the categories)
* Links - links from the database.
For each post, it makes sense to store post _ id = > link _ id one to many.
It will be possible to put
Links to relevant posts on similar topics.
THINK ABOUT THIS BLOCK.
3.
Pages with archives
- Just stupid.
13.07.2007
My first post
Refren
Permalink | email this post | Comments (0) | Add Comment
10.07.2007
and so on
If there were no messages for the date - we do not output.
Set X - the number of days of output on one page (the number of posts do not count)
* 1
block of images of 2 types - either vertically or horizontally (by default)
vertically: - picture
text
text
text
text
horizontally: set X - number of images in the string
text
text
text
text
the ability to set alt for each image, one alt for all images,
group of words through; which randomly spread out for pictures
for the white version - all this is set by a person
for gray - in X% of the images in alt, put the title in X% of the 5 most popular words in the title and body of the letter.
The most popular ones are found.
Pictures are unlimited for each post.
When a picture is entered into the database, a pedestal is created for it.
2 options:
- Hard set XxX pixels - then resize.... and cut the middle.
- The maximum width / height is set - then just resize the maximum side to the specified value
By default, all images are clickable - open in a new window, but it should be possible to set an URL for one or all images.
ie. the url can be different for each picture - for example, the big ones are made automatically small but when you click not a big picture and url.
* 2
on the page display the LAST page with comments + form for posting.
Standard - name, soap, text - no registrations.
Only yes-no
htmlspecialchars (); strip _ tags (); etc.
Next, when you visit the page, generate a number in the session that encoded javascript stuffed into a cookie.
When posting if $_ SESSION [secret _ key]
$_ COOKIE [secret _ key]
In the admin panel, set the number of comments per page
ALL PAGES .html
The internal part of the blog consists of:
Let 's take WordPress as a basis
http: / / new.makemerich.us / wp / wp-admin / admin / admin
and bloghoster
http: / / new.makemerich.us / bh / admin / admin.php admin / admin
1.
Authorization page - standard login and password * 1
After logging in, we read which blogs the user has access to.
Upstairs where My new WordPress MU SiteMy new WordPress MU Site - leave except
that View site » change to manage - go to the page where you can select several blogs at once.
2.
Home page - Quick Statistics from the bloghoster - if one blog is selected (at the top) then one blog - if all then for all
3.
Managing Blogs
3.1.
Categories (for blog) - here everything is simple - to finish / delete / change.
Default is General.
Can't be removed.
When deleting a category, change the blogs
who are using it on the general.
A blog can have several categories.
3.2.
Managing Blogs
1st block - Search blog by name; id; url; categories - naturally url and name search LIKE% $name%; button display all.
+ Sort by category; id; date of creation; date of last modification (comment / article); date of last post;
2nd block - the result of the work of the first
list of blogs
ID; name (link to edit in new window 3.3); Url; Registered date; Last Updated (date of last modification (comment / article)); Users (here is a list of users who have
powers to do something in the blog) one big link to edit users for the blog 4.2; Actions (View-open in a new window; Edit-page editing blog 3.3.; Suspend (when you click on
this button comes out popup where you need to lead url where will redirectizzo ALL traffic from the blog e-but through .htaccess); Delete - delete the blog and ALL that is associated with it
3rd block - adding a new blog - just a button that leads to page 3.3
3.3.
Editing / Adding a blog - the form is the same so that the page is one in the style of http: / / new.makemerich.us / wp / wp-admin / wpmu-blogs.php? action = editblog & id = 1
URL - blog url
Title - title
Description - description
Admin Email
Registered - Default NOW ()
Ftp Host
Ftp Login
Ftp Password --- here everything is clear - where to upload a blog
Ftp Path
Allow comment 1 / 0
Posts on main page - number of last posts on main page (default 5)
Post on archives page - number of entries per page in archives (default 10)
Blog categories (3.1) - one blog can be assigned several categories.
Blog users (4.1) - here everything is the same as in the Blog Users block - only adding is not necessary - and the ability to choose from existing (4.1)
Template - choose a template from 3.4
+ all X listed in 'External part of blog consists of'
3.4.
Templates management http: / / new.makemerich.us / bh / admin / admin _ templates.php
- do it the same way
- http: / / new.makemerich.us / bh / admin / admin _ templates.php? task = edit & t _ id = 2 there are only 3 pages main page, post page, archive page
4.
User management
4.1.
http: / / new.makemerich.us / wp / wp-admin / wpmu-users.php all the same
The user can: (tick what)
- Add a new article to the blog
- Edit / edit an article in the blog
- Delete an article in the blog
- Add a comment to the article
- Edit comment in article
- Delete comment in article
- Add / Edit / Delete categories (if there are posts in this category, you need to ask which category to transfer them.
And if she stayed
only one category, then remove it lower)
- Add / Edit / Delete links on main page / pages with posts
- View blog statistics
- Add / Edit / Delete template for blog
Make it better at Ajax.
ie the name of the blog in when changing automatically change the checkboxes (disappear or added) when you click on the checkbox, it is written in the database
User names are unique globally, not for a blog.
Accordingly, when the user enters the admin panel, only blogs and functions that are assigned to it are available to him.
Admin.
In one blog, he can only edit an article, and in another add for example.
The system is a multiblog engine, with global administration of all blogs and with a system of poster accounts that have access to one
or several blogs (or even categories in blogs) and have different features.
4.1.
There is an admin - who can do everything
5.
Article Management
5.1.
Categories (for the article) - here everything is simple - to finish / delete / change.
Default is General.
Can't be removed.
When deleting a category, change the articles
who are using it on the general.
One article can have several categories.
5.2.
http: / / new.makemerich.us / wp / wp-admin / post-new.php - that 's it
- Optional excerpt, custom fields, post password, post slug - remove
- After the title add a refrain, it may or may not be - these are 2-3 sentences briefly characterizing the post.
- Сategories - select checkmarks from existing (5.1)
- Post status by default opened and published
- Upload - it should be divided into
- upload images
* press the button - the form with the selection of files comes out (i.e. you can select several)
* after the choice comes out the form
Picture Alt
[d:\ pic1.jpg] [X] [] - when you press the cross this applies to all the pictures below
[d:\ pic2.jpg] [] if the script finds' # # 'in alt', for example sex # # drugs and there is a checkmark then it randomly throws 2 alt 'a
[d:\ pic3.jpg] [] (sex, drugs) for all pictures below
[Upload]
* when you press upload instead of d:\ pic1.jpg, etc. comes out the strip with loading, if everything is ok - then d:\ pic1.jpg becomes green, if there is an error, then
red. Default black
* All images automatically fall into the attached images block (make it like trackback)
[pic1.jpg] [delete]
[pic2.jpg] [delete]
EVERYTHING ON AYAX WITHOUT REDOWNLOADING THE PAGE
- upload data
* press the button - the form with the selection of files comes out (i.e. you can select several)
* after the choice comes out the form
Failey
[d:\ pic1.rar]
[d:\ pic2.rar]
[d:\ pic3.rar]
[Upload]
* when you press upload instead of d:\ pic1.rar, etc. comes out the strip with loading, if everything is ok - then d:\ rar becomes green, if there is an error, then
red. Default black
* All images automatically fall into the attached files block (make it like trackback)
[pic1.rar] [delete]
[pic2.rar] [delete]
+ they automatically get into the visual editor in the form of
EVERYTHING ON AYAX WITHOUT REDOWNLOADING THE PAGE
5.3.
Articles management http: / / new.makemerich.us / wp / wp-admin / edit.php? cat = 1
- comments get out of here
- make one search form
* search phrase: [] - search search in title, refren, body if empty but search ALL
* search month: [select month] - only those months with years where there are articles. by default select month = 0, i.e. do not take into account
* search category: [select category] - categories from 5.1. by default select category = 0, i.e. do not take into account
* search status [all] - here the choice [posted] [not approved]
* search comments status [all] - here the choice [posted] [not approved] - not approved - the same for comments
* per page [10] - [20] [50] [100]
- view transfer to Hello world!. When you click, the lines are moved apart (if more than one item is found), or just add a block there
DOWNLOAD the article well and at the bottom close, the line collapses.
Here is the type http: / / www.dustindiaz.com / basement / block-toggle.html
only need to load the contents when pressed and not load immediately.
- when you click on comments as well as on view - open the same block as presented on the page
- instead of view status. if not apptoved, then through
[approve] - when you click on ajax without reloading the page, everything changes.
5.4.
Comments management http: / / new.makemerich.us / wp / wp-admin / edit-comments.php
- still do only Awaiting Moderation checkbox to search. if search empty then look for all
You need to make sure that the interface is only a layer, i.e. you need an API to add automatic posts to blogs, and with an array of pictures, etc.
Think about how to make it more comfortable.
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The platform allowed users to assign multiple categories, customize templates, and manage comments.

LiveJournal supported image and file uploads, had search functionality, and a user-friendly blog management interface.

Why does one author believe LiveJournal is a superior platform?

LiveJournal was initially developed by Brad Fitzpatrick using PHP and JavaScript.

Title:

Content: -programming in languages (VBA, Delphi, C / C + +);
-development, maintenance of Web-sites based on PHP (JavaScript) technology in Russian and English languages;
-development of relational databases based on client-server technology (SQL-Server, Access), writing client software for
work with the server part in VBA, Delphi, C / C + + languages
-programming for Macromedia Flasyh MX, including with the use of artificial intelligence technology
-work with graphic PO-PhotoShop, AutoCAD, 3DStudio
-writing computer games (logic, engines, graphics)
+ communication skills, efficiency of work, punctuality, self-confidence, excellent knowledge of English

Facebook's rise contributed to the decline of other social networks like LiveJournal.

Title:

Content: What happened to MySpace and Hi5, the social networks that ruled the world but failed
Currently, Hi5 is a platform similar to Tinder, where you can also enjoy online social games.
The growth of social networks has certainly been exponential in recent years, and it ’ s only worth taking a look at how much they ’ ve changed 15 years ago to see which ones are in progress, and all the new projects that are so integral to people ’ s daily lives today.
The vast majority of people have been able to see the growth of giants like Facebook and certainly Hi5MySpace.
Next, Infobae brought two of the most popular social networks that were no longer available, but they were pioneers in connecting people through the internet.
What happened to MySpace, and why it didn ’ t succeed in the rise of social media
Myspace is a platform that was born in 2003 and has won glory among people over the years.
Eight years after its debut, the network had 33 million visitors in the United States
From 2005 to 2008, Myspace became the most visited social network in the world because it was also one of the earliest social networks.
However, with the advent of new web pages and portals, their popularity has declined markedly, especially in Latin America
While it ’ s still one of the most visited platforms, everything changed with the advent of Mark Zuckerberg ’ s Facebook, which grew from 1,600 to just 200 people in two years.
The photo blogging platform is very popular among teenagers; although it is available to all who have an email address. MySpace is based in Argentina, which greatly helps that most of its users are from Latin America, as is Hi5, which will be discussed later.
In addition to photo sharing features, the site offers services such as private messaging font size settings, background and link colors.
Another function of the social network is to place lists of images and files that are more important to people ’ s personal lives; such as sports, TV shows, music, and links that users visit regularly.
Another important message that didn ’ t quite like the platform ’ s users was that MySpace had a deal with Google that doubled the number of ads on its site.
MySpace ’ s crowded ad design is actually dizzying compared to Facebook ’ s streamlined offerings.
What happened to the social network Hi5 that conquered Latin America
Founded in 2003 by Ramu Yalamanchi, the social network has been a worldwide success, accumulating more than 70 million registered users four years later.
At its peak, the platform became one of the 40 most visited websites in the world, especially in Latin America.
However, its popularity did not become a completely different idea: the development of video games. In 2010, hi5 was no longer a social network, but became part of the social gaming world; however, after registering nearly 3 billion visits a month, the site dropped to just 46 million.
Because of this, it was sold to Tagged.
Then, when a person presses the following link, they will realize that the interface is no longer the same. When trying to access and restore the account, the system will show that the message is no longer active.
However, you can still create new profiles.
There are five options, namely “Know Me ”,“ Explore ”, “Inbox ”,“ Play ” and “Profile ”:
- Know me like a spark; a profile that can be accepted or rejected.
- In "Browse" there are multiple profiles, you can choose one and contact the person.
“It ’ s part of the game.
- "Inbox" is a private message, and personal information is the user's personal information.
So if the user at some point considered the possibility of restoring the photo, that would no longer be possible.
All that ’ s left is a memory of the years of using Hi5, when schoolchildren came home from school and they could spend hours editing profiles in front of their computers, using different options to set backgrounds, long clothes, GIFs, and other tools.
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Censorship introduced after 2005 significantly contributed to LiveJournal's decline.

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Content: Opinion: Rating in Russian
27.05.2022, 22: 21, Miscellaneous
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Starting from February 24, interesting metamorphoses occur with my LJ rating (trifle, but unpleasant).
LiveJournal, apparently, defined me as an “unreliable ” user – and therefore he is just monotonically declining.
Of course, the principle of forming LiveJournal ratings has always remained a terrible military and commercial secret, but the general principle could be caught: if you are read a lot, your posts have a lot of comments and likes, the rating increases; if you read a little, there are no comments, or you do not write anything at all, the rating decreases.
It's kind of simple.
But with the beginning of the war, LiveJournal not only introduced censorship and canceled anonymous names, but also, it seems, revised the principle of rating.
Now the “unreliable ” users ratings simply decline no matter what.
I noticed it back in April – when on one of the posts (about AvtoVAZ) there was almost a record attendance – 75 thousand per day, about 1000 comments – and the rating, as if nothing had happened, continued to decline.
I am almost certain that the LJ algorithm has a restriction, according to which it by default believes that “Shoemaker writes nothing ”; accordingly, every day my personal rating gradually dries up, although I still have, even in conditions of censorship and general militaristic insanity, extremely“ fruitful ” posts.
All this is understandable – LJ, while he was “in the shadows ” and outside the attention of the“ ideologists ” of the regime, lovingly debugged his mechanisms of work and brought them almost to perfection, but when censors and censorship came, it breaks everything down in a few months, since the mechanisms were made with an emphasis on the objectivity of measurements, and no objectivity of ideology is needed.
I just don ’ t understand why it ’ s so half-hearted.
With other "unreliable" treated much cooler.
Kungurov was simply squeezed out of LiveJournal, Nikonov was squeezed out, Mitrich ’ s rating was simply halved in one fell swoop, Alex Rozoff was driven somewhere in the end of the first rating hundred (although his posts are read and discussed in the same way, if not more than before the sad Free Date) – and my rating is just slowly and sadly “blown away ” (about minus 8 thousand points), and almost ceased to include posts in the Top.
The only thing is that I ’ m treated about the same as El Murid: he ’ s also “slowly and sadly ” losing in the rankings, although his posts are read almost more than mine (but since we have the same rate of fall in the“ they write nothing ” mode, I can ’ t fall lower than him).
These are the ratings quirks.
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The change of ownership impacted LiveJournal's popularity, with manipulated ratings and removed posts.

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Content: Opinion: Sber pulls LiveJournal
09.12.2021, 4: 30, Miscellaneous
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The lords of the vaxers have not long to endure the godless Shoemaker in LiveJournal.
The tendency to silence “too sharp ” topics, which I have already mentioned, is becoming clearer and clearer.
Still, it was not in vain that the change of ownership occurred, and LiveJournal passed into the hands of Comrade Gref and Sberbank.
Pay attention to my last 4 (!) posts about kovid - about Germany, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, etc.
None of them is not that “did not get to the top ” – God would be with him; all four were out of the LiveJournal rating at all.
It was as if they “didn ’ t notice ” them.
And it's funny - one still flew into the Top, and immediately in the top ten - and literally an hour later was hastily thrown out of it.
At the same time, from the rating in general.
It's censorship, my friends.
So far, as soft as possible.
I pay tribute to the old LJ - he resists as much as he can.
But no – the forces are too unequal, I understand.
The crazier and frankly ridiculous everything becomes – covid-statistics, the requirement to “vaccinate everyone ”, the rationale for“ the need for codification ”, etc. – the stronger will take control of social networks.
Moreover, they are clamped on two sides: Russian (VK, Zen, LiveJournal) will thin out censors from the government, Western (FB, YouTube, Instagram) do not need censors from the outside, they themselves are the embodiment of censorship.
The exception from the rating “completely ” is, of course, the mildest form of influence so far.
But, as Leo Tolstoy said, “By reducing the ideal by its weakness, one can never find the limit at which one should stop. ”
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Objective rating mechanism was destroyed

Government influence contributed to LiveJournal's decline, as it initially resisted but ultimately succumbed to censorship.

The emergence of Facebook and Twitter led to a decline in LiveJournal's popularity.

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Content: Electronic Donkey
28-08-2022
Electronic Donkey
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When a farmer ’ s donkey burns and does not want to walk behind him to the mill, he extends a bouquet of hashish to him and follows him. Whenever he burns, he gives him a bite of the bouquet and follows him until the donkey reaches the mill and is still hungry: this is how the mind of social media addicts works on electronic excitement, as they feel more emptiness and hunger after each bite. It is more than the precious and the abnormal or the liar more than the right, because the size of the emptiness and boredom of the individual is determined by the time he is on the platforms of communication, except those who manage the platforms and collect their money from their consumers, such as the supermarket: you enter to take the object you want and get out of it loaded with things you did not want …
2.
The irony is that the global communication platforms have become the identity of consumers more than their national card (identity), after the presence of people virtual more than real, and the personal page is what paints the image of the individual colorful in front of the rest of the consumers, a virtual representation may appear dog seven, cow butterfly, fish eagle, fish, turtle rabbit and worm hermit, until the world is like a fake forest may punish you If you show the truth about their beings and remove their masks for violating privacy!
After the writers and actors were the ones presenting the play on the stage, the audience wrote and represented it, where the majority of women imitate the artists and present their image as a mixture between the Virgin Mary and Marilyn Monroe in their morning and evening publications, while men present themselves as poets, sages and artists. A judge, a reformer, a psychotherapist, a broadcaster, a coward, a bully, a religious, a seductive star, a poet, a healer of cosmic energy, with a lot of beggars, swindlers and harassers of course, until the specialties were copied and the people listened to the most popular and not the most familiar with the subject.
The second paradox is that the official institutions have become hostage to trends and the obsession of the public, where they try to appease him with mostly failed movements, despite the army of specialists they use, the fake pages they launch, and the money they use to buy the most influential pages, even now the ministries are establishing their pages and address their citizens on the means of communication on the terms of the owners of multinational platforms.
The third paradox is that the international media is using fragmented or composite videos and the comments of the virtual audience on the event and focusing on those that suit the policy of their funders at the expense of the truth!
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The best book I ’ ve ever read about the future we live in today was Zbigeno Brzezinski ’ s Between Two Ages: American Strategy in the Technotronic Age (1969), translated into Arabic in Beirut in 1982, which heralded the formation of a new American-led world order. At the end of the last century, its impact reaches us after a quarter of a century, because our modernity and secularism are always late, and we are going to the place that other nations have surpassed, because of the mobile loads of our culture that are located deep in the heads of our citizens and hinder our progress.
Paper media began to decline in favor of electronic media at the beginning of the third millennium, and we notice the leakage of our paper readers to websites, where they can get the news at the moment of occurrence, and can express their opinion about it...
During the first five years, a few Syrian sites were established, including my site (camel), and our proliferation necessitated the establishment of an information security branch, and its role was negative towards those who did not obey their directives, as well as the role of the Ministry of Information was negative and not keeping pace with development, up to the beginning of the Syrian war, where these sites were divided between supporters and opponents of state policy. Slowly, it disappears as its funding was dependent on advertising, and its audience began to shrink after the second year of the war, as our readers moved to Facebook and Twitter and turned into journalists and analysts!
Since there is no value to writing without readers, writers and journalists have been forced to catch up with their audience to add all nations, but under other conditions, it may be democratic and contribute to enriching the dialogue, but it has lost prestige and reduced the courage of writers to say what does not agree with the desire of the audience, which has implicated some of them in the vice of social hypocrisy and not dare to put forward revolutionary ideas that are incompatible with the culture of society!
When the goal of admiration of the recipient does not enlighten him weakens the presence of the truth and the movement of renewal slows down and shrinks the space of knowledge in a consumer society inclined to easy, fast and free food at the expense of feeding the book, which needs long time and deep thinking, and the electronic consumer knows something about everything but is not competent in anything!
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Everyone is addicted to something, but there are people who are more addictive than others and most of the social media audience is.
Some psychological studies talk about the manifestations of electronic addiction, the first of which is (FOMO), that is, the person who fears to miss something, follows events and people around the clock and does not miss the opportunity to attend and virtual participation in them to appear as the actor, solidarity or rejection and bully. He may bully others not because of their mistake, but because they are more exposed and famous than them.
Studies add that hours of social media attendance are associated with a person ’ s level of social isolation, depression, jealousy, and poor self-esteem.
Of course, the Arab autocratic regimes, which marginalized the individual for centuries, are the first cause of exaggerated ego inflation on the media, where rejection of internal policies makes the individual feel important regardless of the correctness or error of these policies (I oppose, so I exist). But it has not been able to improve his morals and his life, because it is institutions, not e-cafes, on which powerful countries are built.
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It is undeniable that social media has constituted a new shift in human civilization, but in the Arab countries, which use the means of progress to promote backwardness, it has contributed to the development of jealousy, envy, lust, cheating, hypocrisy, betrayal, rebellion, extremism, terrorism, fluidity, abnormality and poor communication with the family. This is therefore unemployment and poor productivity of society, strengthening the band and spiritual alienation and poor self-confidence and a lot of bad things in exchange for a few good things such as the display of intelligence and giving, and there is no cure for it so far, where the advice of preachers seems old and funny, and the presence of writers, researchers and thinkers weak, because the human soul tends to ease and relaxation and freedom from moral restrictions. We have already seen some of its applications in the events of the (Arab Spring), where its electronic coordination committed all the above evils under the slogan "war is a trick" relative to the hadith attributed to the Holy Prophet, although the apostles should not deceive or lie or even fight as long as the sender is not a liar or deceiver as the divine logic assumes, and thus the owners of social networking shops have lost consumers whatever their race or their religion or political orientation.
Returning to Brzezinski ’ s theory of e-ethics, I mention a story of young people that I read in Superman magazine in the 1970s, where he wrote it, printed it, and published it for us by the Egyptian brothers, in addition to the magazines “Mickey ” and“ The Bat ” American …
The story follows Superman ’ s journey to Krypton, where he was born, after a recording leaked in which the cutest of Superman ’ s father says to his mother: “We ’ re about to commit our best crime, Lara! ”
This prompted Superman to travel in space to find out the truth, as he carries an earthly concept of morality and commandments.
When Superman intervened to protect a Kryptonian citizen from a gang that caused a fight and saved the victim by smashing a glass window, the police came and interrogated him. After he recounted the incident and confessed to smashing the front of the shop and repelling the bad guys, he was sentenced to prison for telling the truth and not lying, in addition to the charge of obstructing the work of criminals. You say, "Lie, steal, kill"?
Indeed, American cartoons were based on the same vision in which Brzezinski spoke of our time, where the prostitute is a star, the coward is a hero, the pimp is an example, the thief is an investor and the homosexuals are the exception...
All of this confirms a new pattern of ethics, customs and cultures with their leaders, prophets and traders as the planet recovers towards its initial blindness.
On the margin: The beautiful woman said to her husband the writer: You want to give me the idea of   a post that breaks the world!
He looked at her calmly and said, “Write, I will kill my husband this evening. ”
She did not lie news and published on her page what her husband, the writer who wanted his virtual death to stop writing in a country that does not read as much as you browse and entertain.
Of course, the wife ’ s announcement on Facebook impressed thousands of commentators, including some of the author ’ s owners who put “I love him ” and even one of Meridiya commented“ I support him! ”
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Failure to adapt to trends and competition contributed to LiveJournal's decline.

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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.
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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.

The lack of innovation and ineffective monetization contributed to the decline of LiveJournal and other platforms like Orkut.

The decline of social media platforms, including LiveJournal, can be attributed to factors such as failure to adapt, privacy concerns, intense competition, and lack of innovation.

User trust is crucial for content sharing platforms like LiveJournal, and a low content creation threshold can make a platform prone to fake notes.

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Content: Little Red Book Fights Fake Grass For Whom?
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Source: Science and Technology Board Daily
Author: Zhang Yangyang, Hu Jiaming
Recently, four announcement platforms and MCN institutions, such as micro-media announcements, Chengbao and Nanjing mussels, were sued by the well-known consumer experience sharing platform Little Red Book.
Xiaohongshu said that these institutions are engaged in the business of "writing and sending" false planting notes, helping merchants and bloggers to carry out false promotion, causing great harm to the platform content ecology and platform reputation, and seriously damaging the legitimate rights and interests of users.
The small red book requires the above institutions to immediately stop the false promotion of the small red book and other acts, and compensate the small red book economic losses of 10 million yuan (RMB, the same below, 2.12 million Singapore dollars), the compensation will be used for the platform false grass management.
The "Science and Technology Board Daily" learned in the investigation that the governance of the "false grass planting" behavior of the small red book had begun several years ago, but the brand false promotion behavior issued by users under the control of institutions and institutions has been repeatedly prohibited, and even intensified.
The small red book does not hesitate to hammer the "false grass" in the way of high legal proceedings, the core is to maintain the bottom line of "users' trust in the platform".
At the same time, it also highlights the traffic game between enterprise brands, promotion agencies and network platforms in the era of stock after the peak of traditional e-commerce traffic.
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Reporters learned in the investigation, "writing on behalf of the hair" of the black ash production link is usually: brand or third-party intermediaries to undertake the needs of the brand, through the "red notice", "micro-media notice", "tomato notice" and other behalf of the third party to receive an intermediary platform, with physical goods / services or cash ranging from 0-1000 yuan, a large number of paid recruitment, in the small red book, And...
"Notice platform and MCN institutions billing operation is generally like this: after the brand side gives promotion needs, these institutions through various channels to issue tasks, 50 yuan or 100 yuan a price, with the vegetarian users to replace a note or comment on the small red book or public comments." What content is covered and what kind of pictures are prepared in advance by the institution.
“After we received the order, we will be pulled into the group of this brand, in the group to communicate how to send this. ” Xiao Wang said, after the issuance, the promotion agency generally stipulates that no deletion is allowed within seven days, but also the release of the recycling results to the brand, after the brand acceptance, the posted users will receive money.
The reporter test of "Science and Technology Board Daily" found that there are various small red book announcement channels in QQ, WeChat and other platforms, and these announcements exist in the form of QQ group, WeChat group, WeChat public number, WeChat small program.
Taking the WeChat applet as an example, the reporter found in a notification applet that there are a large number of brands on the platform to recruit small red book bloggers to share brand information.
In the recruitment information, the brand will make requests for the type of small red book blogger, the number of fans, the delivery time, the posting data, etc. As a reward, the blogger will receive cash ranging from 0 yuan to 1000 yuan, or the physical product of the brand.
Some senior industry insiders told the "Science and Technology Board Daily" reporter, this small red book lawsuit is a blow, to maintain the content of the small red book ecology, just like Taobao at that time hit the brush.
"The community atmosphere is the basic disk of the small red book, the false planting of 'writing on behalf of hair' is actually paying to buy content to rub traffic, and the small red book hopes that users share real experience notes."
False planting of grass not only erodes the small red book's own commercial interests, but also seriously affects the user's' trust 'in the small red book.
Content sharing platforms have no value once they lose user trust, "the person said.
Vegetarian KOC ’ s “Grass Planting Sanctuary ”
For corporate brands, whether it is the e-commerce platform Taobao, Jingdong or the content analysis platform Little Red Book, Zhihu, there is a flow of places, there is a brand promotion demand.
However, it should be noted that the brand side in the small red book and the traditional electricity supplier on the delivery, for the platform there is a fundamental difference - in Taobao or Jingdong platform, similar "grass notes" usually exist in the after-sales evaluation or buyer show, in the shopping decision-making chain is relatively backward.
This has also led to the traditional e-commerce platform's grass content creation is not active, and the interactive atmosphere is not strong enough; and users of Little Red Book usually use Little Red Book to make shopping decisions before purchasing, and its position in the decision-making chain is more forward.
At the same time, because the content creation threshold is low and the traffic distribution mechanism is friendly, the Little Red Book has become the “grass planting mecca ” of the KOC (“ Key Opinion Consumer ”, that is, the key opinion consumer).
Only in terms of product functions, Little Red Book designed a convenient content publishing tool, through filters, labels, stickers and other auxiliary tools to help users to create content, around the image beautification to continuously improve user experience and reduce the UGC threshold, while through the development of content specifications, set specific topics, etc., to guide non-professional users to content production.
In the traffic distribution mechanism, the small red book is based on the intelligent distribution of user labels and content labels, focusing on content and light fans.
In the small red book, as long as the degree of originality and interaction of notes is high enough, there is a chance to get more recommended traffic and exposure, and it is more friendly to creators, especially amateur creators.
In terms of user composition, the Ali Research Institute report shows that more than half of the consumers who buy new domestic brands are "post-95", and the consumption stickiness is relatively high.
And this group and the small red book user portrait highly coincide, the small red book has also become a new sharp domestic brand focus on the target.
A beauty products marketing department employee told the Science and Technology Board reporter that compared to the head and waist KOL (Key Opinion Leader, key opinion leader) "planting notes", usually vegetarian KOC "planting notes" will appear more authentic and credible.
When they read the vegetarian notes, if they have good feedback on the product, they will form the final shopping decision.
This is also the core competitiveness of the Little Red Book.
And affect the user's final shopping decision "vegetarian notes", now also by the external agencies "write on behalf of the penetration of", once a "write on behalf of the brand quality problems, in the small red book community fermentation speed, often faster than the forward delivery.
This has a considerable impact on Little Red Book ’ s platform credibility, and even on its eventual capital market valuation.
Traffic Game in the Age of Stock
A number of industry insiders said that the small red book filed a lawsuit against the above announcement platform and MCN institutions, the important reason is that the "grass note" is one of the most important ways to achieve commercialization.
Dongxing Securities Research Report shows that as early as 2017-2019, the small red book strategy has been transformed from an all-out development of e-commerce business to a UGC (user-generated content) community for reaching and amateur users to publish products and use their experience, and the platform monetization model has gradually changed to an advertising service.
At the end of 2017, the Little Red Book has undergone significant changes from product, operation, to marketing strategies, etc., and improving community activity has become the first goal, and there have been corresponding changes in product strategies - such as comprehensive information flow, increasing support for food, maternal and infant categories, inviting traffic stars, sports stars, etc., these measures are intended to attract incremental customers.
The Little Red Book ’ s slogan was also changed to “Mark My Life ” in early 2018.
And with the adjustment of the small red book strategy, is the peak of the traditional electricity supplier field traffic, leading to major manufacturers gradually into the era of stock competition.
Taking Alibaba as an example, in fiscal year 2017, after Alibaba's GMV from the mobile terminal reached 79% and its revenue accounted for 80%, the penetration rate increased significantly.
In contrast, the cost of customer acquisition has increased significantly: Alibaba ’ s single MAU (monthly active users) marketing expenses have increased from 18 yuan in fiscal year 2014 to nearly 50 yuan in fiscal year 2018, and they are still rising.
For the brand side, they also face the contradiction of increasing conversion costs caused by homogenization competition, but the conversion rate is declining.
Therefore, whether it is traditional e-commerce or brand side, in the face of the arrival of the stock era, choose a more "cheap" KOC ("Key Opinion Consumer", that is, key opinion consumers) or "vegetarian" for traffic conversion, becoming a more cost-effective choice to achieve growth.
The above-mentioned beauty products marketing department employee told the "Science and Technology Board Daily" that her company chose to cultivate the small red book in the early stage of entrepreneurship.
Its main strategy is: through the form of testing cosmetics to the vegetarian, so that it put a large number of vegetarian notes in the small red book platform, in addition to some testing products almost no other cost; and then use some marketing budget, put the small red book head or waist KOL (Key Opinion Leader, Key Opinion Leader), through this way to achieve marketing coverage in the small red book platform.
In terms of results, within six months of launching the small red book, her company's monthly sales reached hundreds of thousands.
Similar delivery also exists in the after-sales evaluation of Taobao and Jingdong platforms.
For the small red book this time to crack down on "false grass", financial blogger, "micro-media" author Ying Wang believes that first of all, the small red book for their own platform content and some of the content of the governance, is as a platform should have done things.
In the past, the content of the red book's own station was not well managed, and even some pornographic content appeared, as well as the content of the small red book filter before, which caused the discussion of netizens.
On the other hand, from the perspective of MCN institutions, the reason why the promotion agency can be born is that the platform can allow MCN institutions to grow normally.
For institutions and MCN, the first thing to do is to convey the correct social values, and the other is to abide by the rules of the platform, create and incubate according to the constraints of the platform, and cultivate KOC.
He believes that the small red book is now prosecuting this behavior, its institutions and platforms have been doing before, today to increase the punishment, in addition to it must maintain the platform's "basic disk", there are also national "clean" action and other policy pressure reasons.
“In general, good business models need to be explored, but some announcement platforms or MCN organizations have no business model that really meets the needs of users from the beginning, or the operation process is not in line with business ethics, which is worthy of deep reflection. ”
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