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A Social Media Co-operative
How Facebook inspired their future end
In 2012, I declared Facebook to be a time waster. For every useful post, I got at least 20 posts that were, at best, distractions. I stopped my daily incursion into FB. Then my weekly incursions became monthly. Eventually I turned my FB account into an address book to find people when I needed to find them. The account just got more and more dormant. A few months ago, I finally deleted my FB account.
Sad! You see, I still want to see your pictures of your family in front of the Christmas tree. Or your kids graduating and entering a new career. Or the trips you have taken. Or the health challenges you are facing. Drop me a few paragraphs to tell me and your following what you are up to. And I want an efficient way to tell people outside my Dunbar number my news. Social media has so much potential to keep people connected in a meaningful way.
I am a thinker. And an inventor. After lots of thought about my FB disappointment, I invented a co-operative social media website in 2015. I called it “Consensus.”
https://davevolekinventions.org/Consensus/
The basic premise of Consensus is that the members own this social media outlet. So the members, through democratic due process, will decide on the direction. That direction will be more…
