On Social Media

At https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MartinSeeger/posts/UT9mMDYX9XV I started a discussion that turned out to be really interesting. I see several results: a) It is the people we see as the major benefit for at G+. But they are not one community but several overlapping. That makes joint decision making very difficult. b) A lot of people are already looking/scouting/migrating for other social networks. If we one to preserve the community we need to determine what we are looking for (currently everyone is just looking for his/her features). We need to collect properties and features we are looking for. +Christian Buggedei has written a good article to as starting point ( https://www.orkpiraten.de/blog/online-interaction-types-what-is-there-what-do-i-look-for ). We need to complete and structure that. c) We could define a a way how people communicate other social networks they are using so that we can easily find them if/when they are no longer active here. This is only a first takes. There...

How to proceed? ‪The one thing I will remember most about #GooglePlus is that it is all about the people. I really felt at home. A technically subpar solution might actually help in bonding the right people together. I feel there’s a lesson to be learned here. ‬ We can look at all the other social networks, about all the features they (don't) have and what people are running it. But that hardly matters. To preserve what we got here, we have to have most people there too. If features are missing, we could work around those. But without the people it is all for naught. And I do not see any concept yet to get a significant part of the population together to a new place. There are no mechanism to make a joint decision or even the will to make a joint decision. The core problem we face is a social one, not technical. (Remark: some cut&paste from Jan Wildeboer as he brought it to the point)