Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook

Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook by PoignardAzur on Friday October 15, 2021 @01:28PM (#28880385)

> There is often no other way to get from person A to person B than to use Facebook, or from person C to D without Twitter, ... . Yes, there are various social networks, but there was also various railway barons

Is that really accurate, though?

How many people use a single social network? And regarding market power, very few companies do their online marketing on a single social network; they usually have a general strategy that they deploy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.

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Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook by monetus on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:25PM (#28881181)

Anecdote: facebook is the only social network where I am listed under my actual name. Until some highly adopted internet address book exists, the only option for many old friends to contact me is FB at this point.

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Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook by nitrogen on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:25PM (#28881182)

My neighborhood's official presence is only on Facebook, apparently. I don't actively use Facebook, so I have no access to my group of neighbors.

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