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MrGrey
Social networks, Yogurt versus trad. communities

  • 2008/11/11 9:24

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Social networks minimum level...

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How big must a social network be to "get alive"... and not fade away and die?

Trad. newspapers that have 100.000 copies per day sold often do not get any "action" at all in their web communities.
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stefan88
Re: Social networks, Yogurt versus trad. communities

  • 2008/11/11 17:51

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Maybe the people who buy newspapers are not the same people who will bring life into a social network...
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MrGrey
Re: Social networks, Yogurt versus trad. communities

  • 2008/11/12 8:05

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Hypothetical golf asociation

How big must a social network be to "get alive"... and not fade away and die?

Quote:

stefan88 wrote:
Maybe the people who buy newspapers are not the same people who will bring life into a social network...


Ya, ya... but in a global context the daily paper readers still stay in civilized surroundings, although readers may be some years older as an average compared to websurfers. As a guess, in a global view the paper reders are not so far off the chart...

Let's say U got a big golf club or a larger golf asociation... How many members must it presumably have to get a "modern social network" going at least with some action in it?

1000, 10.000 or would it need 100.000 members before people enough surf the society-network to get it really vivid?

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ghia
Re: Social networks, Yogurt versus trad. communities

  • 2008/11/12 9:59

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Quote:
Let's say U got a big golf club or a larger golf asociation... How many members must it presumably have to get a "modern social network" going at least with some action in it?

1000, 10.000 or would it need 100.000 members before people enough surf the society-network to get it really vivid?
Numbers are irrelevant!
You have a community if you gather some people around something common, and they feel the need (or they like) to share about it. If that is some niche, you can have a small, but very vivid and passionate community.
If you want to offer a general one and throw over FaceBook etc., you need vast numbers and have to offer something extra, than these traditionals.
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MrGrey
Re: Social networks, Yogurt versus trad. communities

  • 2008/11/13 18:32

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Quote:
Numbers are irrelevant!


Nope!

...both on the web and IRL it's very obvious that people attract people, and action attracts action.

The subject or target group must be big enough... no matter what your topic is... although an attractive subject helps.

If U hire a que to a small shop "outsiders" will be happy if they can sneek bye the que into the store, even if they did not intend to visit it.

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