Using social media is only worth it if you have an ability to profit from such usage.

Otherwise I’m fairly certain the costs outweigh the benefits.

Writes http://commoncog.com. Books, protocols, and the art of business, from the perspective of an operator. Yes cats.

Profit here equals literal, bankable currency or something more intangible? And what would you count as the costs?

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Yeah I think both. Like if I’m on Twitter I’m typically posting with a very specific reason of promoting Commoncog (or related ideas that will be covered by Commoncog)

The other example to use is to monitor crypto market sentiment.

The costs are psychological. Many mistaken models of the world on Twitter, easy to get mind hijacked, triggered, get into a state of emotional disregulation.

Isn’t that the same as any social activity with 1) diversity above a certain threshold and 2) a large number of participants? 

Twitter has just grown enough to be super potent. Is there even a sustainable middle between a totally insular social media exp. and a chaotically dissonant one?

Sustainable as a minority type of actor in a larger system, sure. My Q was more like, “can you have a social media system above a certain scale that doesn’t require extreme outcome orientation to be tolerable?”

Yes there is a sustainable middle: you have extreme outcome orientation when engaging in the activity.

Which leads me back to my original post. :)