I'm interested to see whether I'm right so I'll likely stick around until it's clear whether the app is taking off or landing. I think it's important to have people around that disagree with you, to keep the conversation going and the circlejerking low. Is there anything in particular you want me to give my opinion on?
FB is made up of Friends that very few are actually true friends. The majority are acquaintances if that. A lot of the content is irrelevant to me and I'm sure others.
Friends and content are chosen by users, they show you content that you'll click/watch, you can choose to have a small amount of friends, but you don't. Thred will not change this.
People I ask about why they use FB seem to always have the exact same response. "I'm not a big fan of FB but the main reason I stay is I use it to stay in touch with my family and friends."
It is a very convenient way to stay in touch with acquaintances, you can choose to solely use Facebook for this purpose, and people do. I don't see this as a negative.
Thred can aggregate all of your contacts in one space and makes it easy to share HIGHLY RELEVANT content with ONLY real friends and family (and business associates) of which should promote much higher ENGAGEMENT levels from users.
Aggregating contacts is something I could do in my sleep. Users will still need to choose their friends and content, it is not unique.
Thred isn't a public broadcasting platform for mostly irrelevant content like FB. It's a place to connect with real people that matter to you to discuss and organise stuff that is important and RELEVANT to you and those you engage. If you want to post your funny memes or whatever to FB then Thred will enable that function better in due course.. but why bother?.. are you trying to just entertain the general public/push an image of yourself out there?.. or are you truly just using it to stay in contact with your friends and family?
"but why bother?" This is a good question you could ask yourself, why do users bother to post memes on Facebook? Why do they continue to push an image or themselves? They can certainly choose not to.
If the response is true in what the numerous people I've asked why FB? and it is in fact the second option then Thred will kill FB every time. Build richer features and who knows where this will go.. Thred aren't competing against FB etc as they are completely different but it doesn't mean some current FB users won't migrate if they are being truthful about their reasons for being at FB in the first place..
Because Facebook was first, they got the necessary users to join up and add value to their platform. This cannot be undone. They already have rich features, and know where it will go.
Focus on business aspects because that puts food on the table in the form of revenue. Look at LinkedIn and MSFT.. What we can saddle up there is exciting.
"Focus on business aspects" sure sounds goo... "LinkedIn" oh yea they were first.
Build enough features on the personal side and you just never know who might defect from other platforms.. it's a big world out there and there's plenty of room for a player like Thred that's for sure.
Build enough features and you can time travel and take over the world, but for now it's just can dos and will dos, and they aren't worth a whole lot.
Edit: spelling
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