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I am re-reading Eugen Wei's "Status as a Service (StaaS)". One of the most insightful pieces on social networks I've ever read. This paragraph currently stands out as I read through this great blog post. 

"What ties many of these explanations together is social capital theory, and how we analyze social networks should include a study of a social network's accumulation of social capital assets and the nature and structure of its status games. In other words, how do such companies capitalize, either consciously or not, on the fact that people are status-seeking monkeys, always trying to seek more of it in the most efficient way possible?"  

What makes @farcaster interesting are the multitude of social capital assets and status games to accumulate those assets. 

https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service

Status as a Service is a must read at least once a year if not once a quarter. linking below and encourage everyone to read his more recent musings, as well.

Status as a Service is a must read at least once a year if not once a quarter. linking below and encourage everyone to read his more recent musings, as well.

https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service

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I’ve never read this, though status seeking monkeys is a good hook.

Queued up for later.

The essay mentions Prisma: it was too easy, and the tech was too good. 

Feels similar to TikTok, where the emphasis is not on any one user, but how the tech can turn mediocre inputs into top tier outputs. Both TikTok and Prisma essentially did this. 

Indeed, today, vertical videos platforms are full of automated faceless videos which don’t take much work. 
The best content is still handmade, but is the correlation from work to status still there? 

These social media platforms have succeeded despite disconnecting work from success. With this link broken, how can social media still be about status?

due for a read. thanks for sharing starfish