The Next Social network, the one what will eat Facebook's lunch, just like Facebook ate MySpace's lunch, will not be people-to-people based, but it will be People-to-topic and topic-to-topic based; media-rich and mobile-friendly.
And no, it won't be Reddit, too much Legacy crap with Reddit and not enough novelty.
Clayton Christensen would agree.
Reddit is a web forum, a form of interaction that predates social networks; they never went away. Reddit is just the best platform yet for creating and hosting them.
This form of interaction—short conversations organized by topic—predates even the Web, via newsgroups. It is one of the oldest patterns of interaction on the Internet. For a few people it arguably even predates the Internet, via direct-dial BBS.
One platform I'm missing is one where I could (anonymously) talk to strangers in my area. To discuss or ask about locally relevant things, or just see what people that aren't my friends think. The apps that already exist seem to be always targeted at students.
Unfortunately, my town is going through some crap times politically and it makes it really hard to not spend time on Nextdoor just becoming enraged.
- my state - the nearest metro area of my state - politics in my state
It seems like most of the posters are actually in my local area, so it's fairly easy to kick off a discussion about some local issue. The downside is that there's a significant leftist bias (true for most of Reddit), but it's fine if you take that into account.