{"id":14778,"date":"2022-11-15T13:16:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T13:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14778"},"modified":"2022-11-15T18:08:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T18:08:36","slug":"the-death-of-another-part-of-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14778","title":{"rendered":"The death of another part of social media?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These early days of the 21st Century are odd times. We last quarter of the previous century saw an explosion of social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Blogging (1992ish-)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FriendsReunited (2000-2016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MySpace (2003-)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bebo (2005-2013 and 2021-2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Facebook (2004-2025?), and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Twitter (2006-2023?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>They&#8217;ve all come and, for the most part, gone again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FriendsReunited was killed by shortsightedness, a lack of understanding of the product, and corporate greed. Ironically Twitter, 26-years later, is going down the same road. Twitter would probably have killed itself anyway, it was on a slow and gradual path to oblivion. And then along came Elongated Muskrat who spent $44bn (which he didn&#8217;t have) on a product he didn&#8217;t understand, that serviced a left-leaning, freedom-of-speech-loving (and therefore &#8211; on both counts &#8211; alien to him) community; this has greased the wheels of Twitter&#8217;s demise. A shame, but (in a way) that&#8217;s progress. The trend was established over a couple of decades ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I shall miss Twitter, whether it&#8217;s demise is due to being shut down by the Muskrat because it&#8217;s the wrong kind of free speech (the kind his Saudi bankers don&#8217;t like), or whether it drowns in a sea of commercialism or, indeed, it disappears into bankruptcy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These early days of the 21st Century are odd times. We last quarter of the previous century saw an explosion of social media. They&#8217;ve all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}