Hi!
I said I will make more time between my wife's demands, the new baby, and work. So here I am, before duty calls.
Aly told me that I might become a stranger to my FB friends as she saw me learning about Hive last week.
I never trusted FB in the long run. It was just a means to re-connect with people from my childhood, college, etc.
If I asked my friend to give me an example of a social network, there’s a 99.9% chance they’d name Facebook.
No wonder. For a very long time (an eternity when it comes to “internet years”) Facebook has been the king of the hill… the 800lb gorilla of them all. Still is - 2.7 billion active users... that's pretty impressive.
The second one by popularity (as measured by the number of active users) is YouTube... but it is rarely perceived as a social network. For most people, it’s just a place they go to watch some videos and unwind or a place where they upload their videos, while they risk their accounts being closed overnight like mine was. A simple channel about life and natural ways to use herbs for different affections.
Instagram is fifth. (And it’s owned by Facebook.)
The cool kid on the block - TikTok - is seventh, with 689 million active users as of January 2021. But is TikTok as cool as it was 1 year ago? Yes! It's still on fire!
With all the blockchain developments and new projects taking place, this is what I can say:
My prediction is that Facebook is doomed. They just don’t know it yet.
Not just because of the competition - although that’s a part of it. There’s also a massive exodus of the younger generation - even the millennials are becoming disenamored with it, for a whole ton of reasons.
On the other hand, I can assure you Facebook is not going anywhere. Not just yet. They have the resources to just buy any competition they wish, basically.
But the point is not what is going to happen to Facebook.
The point is to put yourself in a position where you can just say…
If your online business is set up to predictably prosper no matter what social media your customers are using, and you can reach your core audience (and beyond) without even bothering to log on to any social media…You’re going to thrive regardless of what happens in the social media landscape, or, in fact, anywhere else.
Now, I wouldn’t consider this important if it didn’t go even further than that.
If you adopt this approach, you’re not only going to become immune to the ebb and flow of the social media landscape, or, in fact, any particular traffic approach…
But you’re also going to be able to put something in front of people so good that they won’t be able to say no to it.
This is why I and Aly are considering moving part of our crypto assets in the blockchain, a thing that I have mentioned in one of my previous posts.
Enough chit-chat.
I'll just turn back to being a father and get the baby out for a walk that I think it might put my brain to work more than staying in.
Have a good one!
