Instagram - why this is the new platform of the future

Yes, Instagram (IG) is the new place to be 

 

Here is the little poem:

Facebook days are over, 

tumblr is dying, 

soup.io is dead already 

tsu.co has died too 

diaspora never really took off, 

myspace has become a meme 

 

why is Instagram the new shiny platform where everybody wants to be?

 - no friend limits 

- the big influencers are there 

- it is super fast, super 'in your face' 

- the interactions are easy and very much encouraged 

- a picture is worth a 1000 words 

- there are tons of contents everyday 

Now there are restrictions, weird decisions too 

- the Instagram mobile application is the way to go if you are using instagram via a browser, some features are missing no upload are possible, which is like the number one feature for this app 

- zero tolerance for nudity, and the IG police is really tough many famous influencers have lost their account because of a particular photo - that was considered 'lewd' and there are no way to get the account back - the new account restart from scratch many have fled the platform just because of this 

- the IG platform belongs to facebook - so, people fleeing facebook, because of their privacy policy are actually staying withing this toxic social media manner to collect data and sell them to marketers 

- many e-girls are there promoting their onlyfan ; but it is subtle (or sometime not) 

- lots of message spam - with weird url are sent to you daily - 

 

Microblogging platform review

What is this, and why does it exist?

Microblogging or tumblelog is that (relatively) new trendy type of social website (social .. yes, but not quite like facebook) where you have this never ending stream of pictures, video, quotes, or texts - where you can reblog, like or share and add new content.

For the "content creator" it's way faster than writing long articles on the "traditional" platform like blogger.com or wordpress.com and microblogging serves the purpose of having a hand on the pulse of the internet, much like twitter but with more emphasis on pictures and videos. That's why you can also find #hashtags on tumbleblog. And the reblogging is an even faster way to share content that will snowball and could actually in matter of hours spread all over the interwebs.

For the "surfer" - the fun part about microblogging is that selection of blog you select and will follow and which will merge with the current stream of informations and give you that unique personalized content you will be scrolling endlessly everyday - a very important tool in the procrastinator arsenal.

While facebook is for connecting with friends, and family - tumbleblog are more like a way to connect with like minded people, writers, cosplayers, freelances, comics artists, comedians, spiritual teacher etc ...

Some examples, okay ...

The most famous platform is (probably) tumblr.com - so famous in fact, that it has this "aura" of pillar of the internet (along with 4chan, reddit, twitter and facebook).

But it's not the only one, there's soup.io  quite popular in central Europe, Germany and Austria.

There's also diaspora which is a platform that from the beginning has a priority on privacy and respect for the user (for those who don't trust facebook or google+)

In my experience every of these platform had a quite difficult time in their beginning  - when users were constantly having errors and couldn't post because of server's errors and whatnot.

NB : The first time I discovered the tumbleblog concept was with the now defunct meme.yahoo.com  (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Meme for more details) - it seems like they had a different strategy in mind because later they bought tumblr.com

Which is like usual saying something on the quality of the platform - the importance, isn't in the technology or the ease of use, but really in the number of people connecting, using and interacting with it. For people that don't know what I'm talking about they should look for the rise and fall of myspace.com.

You don't need a job, you need to find your life purpose

Trends

After many people voluntarily quit their 9 to 5 job, to start a freelance gig, or try themselves into copywriting, or network marketing .. the latest buzz is to find your true life purpose and share your enthusiasm with your "tribe".

The magic recipe

Now thanks to internet, everybody can start the following success recipe :
Find your true life purpose, then find your "niche", and then Build an audience
- Open a youtube channel
- Create a facebook page
- Collect emails - engage with your fans
- Offer a product on your website (ebook pdf, mp3, advices, skype session etc ...)
- Create a passive income
- Starting to influence others

Example of successful people

Elliott Hulse (founder of the non-job campaign) specialized in body building

Mark Manson (writer of the Book "models")

Teal Scott (Spiritual "New Age" Guide)

They all followed the same successful spiral described above

Numbers

Let see some numbers (as of October, 8th 2013)

Elliott Hulse 171,567 likes (http://www.facebook.com/elliotthulse)

http://www.youtube.com/user/strengthcamp 582,958 subscribers / 979 videos

Products : Around 15 books, and coaching sessions

Started 5-6 years ago

Mark Manson 20,171 likes (http://www.facebook.com/Markmansonnet)

http://www.youtube.com/user/postmasculine 958 subscribers / 12 videos

Products : 3 books, and courses

Started 3-4 years ago

claims that he as 300,000 Monthly Readers From 168 Countries

Teal Scott 68,197 likes (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Teal-Scott-The-Spiritual-Catalyst-Fan-Page)

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSpiritualCatalyst 57,567 subscribers / 117 videos

Products : 1 book, and workshops

Started 2 years ago

Conclusion

Find your life purpose (your mission, your bliss, your voice ... whatever you want to call it) should be the top priority of anyone.

Then start a webpage, a website and hustle until you make it, up to at least 10,000 contacts

and then offer products tailored for your audience.

Digg v4

source : unknown

Massive exodus from Digg to Reddit

What is digg ? it is a social news website, which means in a nutshell that people are submitting links and are voting for other people links, and after a while the best links appears on the front page.

What is the benefits of that kind of site ? basically, for people providing content (bloggers, journalists, artists, ... ) it means more visits to their website and for followers when they want to find what's hot or to get the mood of the day they just have to check the top links. Google calls this Zeitgeist "the spirit of the times".

Massive Exodus ? Lately Digg introduced a new version (v4) and unfortunately for them this release is probably not ... perfect! many criticisms are sent, and people are running away by joining similar social news website, among them reddit.com.
Which is funny and good because it means that diggers (digg users) are putting an end to the long hatred between the 2 websites. In fact, some redditors (reddit users) called it plainly a war - which was greatly illustrated in these 3 pages comics by ncomment. Because Reddit always suspected digg to steal from them the top links  ... saying ironically that what was posted today on reddit would be posted the next day to Digg.

Conclusion : the (stupid) War is over ... Hurrah!