{"id":2295,"date":"2014-04-09T12:44:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T16:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2014-04-09T12:44:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T16:44:29","slug":"what-viability-would-a-subscription-based-social-networking-service-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2295","title":{"rendered":"what viability would a subscription-based social networking service have?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You see stories like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/today\/post\/article\/20140404194407-22870114-is-facebook-worth-the-effort-for-marketers-anymore?trk=tod-home-art-list-large_0\">this one<\/a>, and you wonder how Facebook is continuing to make it. So many people I know are either leaving, or reducing their involvement (including <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2014\/03\/06\/a-week-without-facebook\/#.Uz8Zb61dUrY\">myself<\/a>), that is seems it is destined to be the next MySpace.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past couple years, I have seen companies advertise themselves by giving links like facebook.com\/MyCompany. When it&#8217;s\u00a0<em>in addition\u00a0<\/em>to you &#8220;real&#8221; website (MyCompany.com), that&#8217;s not a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>But when it&#8217;s the only outlet you give people to interact with you? You&#8217;re outsourcing your business to someone else, and\u00a0<em>hoping<\/em> they don&#8217;t screw you over.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t seem to smart to me.<\/p>\n<p>I understand Facebook needs to make money &#8211; they are a business, and not a charity (and even if they were the latter, they still need to pay for electricity, engineers, and equipment). But I think that the pure advertising model is not as lucrative as it once was.<\/p>\n<p>Which makes me wonder how successful a subscription-based social network could be: call it something nominal &#8211; maybe $10-20 a year, but give users much fuller control over their &#8220;experience&#8221;: a mashup of MySpace&#8217;s crazy customizability, Facebook&#8217;s interface, and LinkedIn&#8217;s professionalism.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a thought. Anyone want to build one with me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You see stories like this one, and you wonder how Facebook is continuing to make it. So many people I know are either leaving, or reducing their involvement (including myself), that is seems it is destined to be the next MySpace. Over the past couple years, I have seen companies advertise themselves by giving links &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2295\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">what viability would a subscription-based social networking service have?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[156,610,689,690,732],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","tag-business","tag-questions","tag-social","tag-social-media","tag-subscription"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}