The Wordie Blog
Tuesday, October 16, 2007Unsocial Sites
Here's a cautionary tale about how social sites can lose their way, and then their audience. The writer abandoned Digg for Reddit, then Reddit for Fark. Wordie is small and intended for a specific audience, but still, it's social software, and it's growing, so it's good to think about these things. Hopefully we as a community can avoid the kind of mistakes that Digg in particular made. Better to have a smaller community of, you know, brilliant, witty (and very good looking, I'm sure!) people, than appeal to a brazillion trolls. Thanks to npydyuan for the link.
Comments:
You're welcome for the link. I think to some extent Wordie and other such (though there are no other exactly such) sites become organic-- you can only retain so much control over their evolution. Nevertheless, it is a good idea to be aware of some of the pitfalls that await the humanodigital organism out there. I wouldn't really be all that concerned, except that Wordie is the first "social site" that has ever really appealed to me for more than a few hours!
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