by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
So, what would it be like for a power user of my little daydream social media platform? Let’s take the example of, say, a reporter for The New York Times. She would use Groups set to “Personal” for her private interaction with friends. There would be a Group for high school friends, a group for college friends, etc. And there could also be even more specific Groups for even more specific types of people in her life over the years.
But let’s get to the public element of this service.
Our hot shot New York Times reporter learns that there is big breaking news coming out of Washington. She, like a few dozen other high end content creators on the service, creates a public Group devoted to that specific event, with only a limited number of users having the right to post.
A heated discussion about this breaking new erupts and huge number of threads are created devoted to different elements of the event. In fact, the first Group she created — even with a limited number of people being able to post to it — has grown so huge and rambunctious that our reporter is forced to create three new, more specific Groups devoted to the breaking news.
But cause she has a full page to work with, she’s able to essentially write a New York Times-branded news article directly into the service. You might even figure out some sort of profit sharing agreement whereby the profits from the ads sold on her Posts would be split between the paper and the social media platform.
What’s more, as the crisis continued, our reporter pinged three of her co-workers at the paper and they hold a four way, live video conferencing discussion about what is known — and not known — about what is going on, with people being able to debate in real time what their talking about.
Anyway, all of this is just a daydream. But an intriguing one.
