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im doing a walkthrough of this site for my second media assignment :v
anyways my argument im guiding my investigation on atm is that the intended use of spacehey is mass communicated self-expression - e.g myspace blogs - but users mainly try to use it for stronger and closer bonds than intended.
Essentially spacehey attracts people who dislike other social medias on the basis they like to blog and self express, but we also end up wanting closer friends than the site can account for. the affordances say "hey, self express and get blog based friendshsips!!1!"
but were all like
"hey, i want better friends than that."
so its the weird dichotomy of awkwardness and the cause of so many new accounts, but rarely people that stay long on the site and maintain the intended use. Look also to the forum feature - noone fucking uses it.
anyways, anyone have any thoughts? do you guys agree that we often look to spacehey for closer friendships than intended, by bringing in other websites like discord, and using this as a sort of hub for our other sites like neocities and discord?
also if you wanna be in a screenshot in my assignment heres my test account where i do the walkthrough method https://spacehey.com/profile?id=3607666
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Skye
I haven't actually used Spacehey for forwarding people to another website/account- well, mostly because I just about exclusively use SpH. I can see a lot of people who DO do that, though... who use the site for about a week, add a lot of friends, and retreat back to discord/twitter/whatever for a long long time. It's unfortunate, really. There's definitely a lot of factors, but I think that the twitters/discords have a "follower" culture where users subscribe to the top accounts, whereas the "retro" sites have a "friend" culture where new and different accounts are pushed forward before being out of the spotlight. (And as much as I want to say that "popular" SpH users don't exist, they probably do. Not that they're pushed to the front page, but that if I mention wubzilla or wacky alex, people probably know who I mean.)
Which is a long winded way of saying that "retro" sites without major algorithms push a more personal connection between users, but given the nature of the old internet being more boring and slow-paced, those connections are carried over to sites like discord instead. And then the accounts get abandoned within a week.
100%!!!
I wanted to discuss the high user drop-off rates - which is unfortunately quite hard with a site like spacehey with no official user stats or anything - but ill pull it off. i still have 6 days to submit the assignment so im goated.
just realised 6 days does not sound like a lot
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real statistics? on spacehey? it's less likely than you think... i think we'd have more accurate numbers if inactive users got expunged or something (I know similar sites like FriendProject do that), but instead, An is improving server performance- which is nice, but can't you make the site work first? thank you spacehey devs...
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