Kevin Barrett on Kind Social Networks
Kevin Barrett on Kind Social Networks
Kevin Barrett is Senior Software Engineer, Postlight, and he writes about managing his own social network —
Before I joined Postlight I spent a couple of years running Airendipity, a sort of twee social network in which everyone was anonymous and all you could do was send little paper airplanes with some text inside. The paper airplanes would bounce around the globe from phone to phone, picking up placenames (your plane just landed in Cairo!), hearts, and comments along the way.
Kevin has some experience-won lessons about social networks to share and they ring incredibly true. It’s hard to imagine Twitter and Facebook suddenly tearing themselves down and rebuilding; the shareholders would revolt. But Twitter and Facebook (and Snapchat and so on) won’t be the only games in town forever, or if history is a guide, even for long. Even though Kevin’s social network is no more, it’s good to imagine what the next wave could bring.