Next, people think “we need AirBnB! Not stodgy old hotels, but cool, real homes owned by real people, where individuals can provide hospitality to each other and everyone wins.”
Consequence: independent operators take on the soulless characteristics of hotels but without the accountability or reliability.
I can see us entering the AirBnB era of social networks soon…
just find a way to either: not allow your users to realize their posts are being like by bots (believable bots that leave thoughtful gpt-made comments) OR find users who are OK with this.
in fact, at this point I'd be more surprised if apps like Tinder or Bumble are not already throwing likes into unpopular profiles to keep ugly users hooked.
It's "TikTok for Text!"
That’s basically Reddit, except Reddit also has images and video.
Seriously though, your comment gave me a great laugh this morning and made me think about how much of our communication is built off shared pop culture.
Not disagreeing you, just unable to follow the connection you are making.
Social media often has this idea that it is “free” and so people don’t think about the massive amounts of time and privacy that is given up as the hours whizz by.
Pity really, I'd quite like to do some touring without having to pay!
It is not at all problematic to extract enough value from a conventional hotel visitor to pay for their room. The real puzzle is that a free room doesn't attract that kind of people. You get people who feel obligated to draw penises on the wall, shit in the sink and stab holes in your mattress. The normal audience you get, after making the reservations and/or picking up the key mostly wont be in the room because they don't need it.
Whatever plot one was to come up with to realize it it is almost guaranteed that it would work better if you charged extra for a room with such creative original features all this wonderful product information as the deeper the pockets the more valuable and less annoying the promotional circus.
Which is also why a lot of people are perfectly okay with, and use social media
I would actually not be surprised if that is a model in the future for hotels...
what is not alive my not die either.... I've been going on in my head between "the inanimate and the animated" (after skimming parts of Sidis's book)
what's very interesting, is how hotels, though not alive still age, get old, and are replaced by "new" (young?) hip hotels
Essentially:
Facebook = boomers Twitter. = genx insta. = geny ...
(but for some other shorter generational definition)
This comparison makes 0 sense
- First they are new and cool. The young, hip and rich stay often.
- New becomes old. Shoddy carpet, old fixtures, bad music in the lobby but older people stay until they die.
- New hotels sprout up with cool carpet, music and fixtures. The cycle repeats.
The only way we can ditch them is to ban them and then they’ll go underground :(
What is dead may never die.