We have heard a lot of time people compare weku, steemit and whaleshares as the social media of the future but can they be the real future of social media? But can it ever be mainstream social media of the future? What it needs to be the social media everyone use?

First of all we need to ask this question, do people use steemit even for the purpose they use social media or most people are here for different reason? The truth is people are here for money, so there is no wonder whales will circle vote each other. It is nice not to do but too unrealistic that some day there will be only whales who are like Buddha, caring only for others. All people, plankton to whales all are for money except for some bloggers who just want to say what they want to say to the world.

Another thing is nothing is decentralized. Even after launch of witness the platform won't be decentralized. Developers team can vote witness of their choice and control the platform, they won't do it but if there is something bad they can do it. It is not like bitcoin, it is not decentralized.

Another important thing is how many of us even want to see someone else normal pics, after clicking the post. There are some really nice blogs but if we want us to be mainstream social media then we need people spending more time here. We need some easy excess to the contents uploaded.

What can be true blockchain social media?

If we want to make blockchain social media then we must focus on the main word, 'social media', steemit, whaleshares, weku, they are more like faucets to get their respective coins. There are only few people who like to blog and they are using the platform. So how to make a real social media?

Let's take YouTube as an example, there people can make money but not all will even try. Very very few people who use YouTube actually upload video. They use it for fun, entertainment and knowledge. So what can we learn? Everyone using the social media should not earn money! It is fine that people will use social media and they don't make money.

The problem is we have a lot of content creator but very less content reader. It is because everyone will want there share in the reward pool. They will want to earn money and be focused there instead of reading contents and taking it as social media. It is not a social media where you upload the content and no one is there to see.

How can we improve?

• Notification and direct chat!
  Social media sites play with our dopamine, the chemical in our brain which makes us feel good. How many times you have been excited in Facebook because of that notification you get and then there is no important notification. Facebook plays with our dopamine, we feel good while using facebook not because we really feel nice but because of the dopamine released we feel there is reward, maybe the reward is a like in your photo by your crush or someone shared your post.

  Message is also the same. How many of you have been excited to see 10 messages in facebook but there are no any important message. Even facebook sends you message like, "somebody is in facebook, message him/her" it is a way to make more interaction.

  We need direct chat and a notification system in weku or whaleshares. It seems to be little change but it will be highly effective. In this platforms, people miss good replies because there is no notification. We can have a separate button for notification or give notification directly in posts.

  People like to chat, if I meet someone in weku, I need to go their comments, ask for discord id or facebook id and then chat. It is hard and makes in unsocial. Direct chat can make platforms more social.

• News feed!
  Let us suppose I want to post a meme in weku then I can create a post and post the meme, but for someone watching they would need to click the post and see. Maybe I just want to upload my photo without any description but we need to write everything to upload in this platform or I am gonna look uncool.

  There must a separate place for news feed like Facebook. What I think is we must only monetize blog part and don't monetize the social media part. We must not get paid for uploading our pics and getting likes. It will only make us money mined. Like if someday, I upload too many pictures then I will fear my friends will think me I am too greedy, if I am not uploading then there will be a FOMO effect.

  Another very important part is no one wants power difference in social media. I will not feel good if my rich friend have more influence in the platform than me. So it is better to only monetize blog with this system.

And happy Valentines day!

So sorry if you are single! My intention was not to hurt you!

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