Scenarios about 'social media'
The networks of digital platforms and technologies that enable people to create, share, and exchange information, ideas, and content in virtual communities. Social media emerged in the early 2000s, fundamentally transforming how humans communicate, organize politically, conduct business, and form cultural identities. Its development represents a pivotal shift in information dissemination, allowing for alternate historical narratives where different communication technologies could dramatically reshape social movements, political outcomes, and global power structures.
What If Big Tech Was Regulated Earlier?
Exploring the alternate timeline where major technology companies faced significant regulatory oversight in the early 2000s, potentially reshaping the digital landscape, data privacy standards, and market competition we experience today.
What If Facebook Failed?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Facebook collapsed in its early years, dramatically reshaping social media, tech innovation, privacy norms, and digital communication across the 21st century.
What If Facebook Was Forced to Break Up?
Exploring the alternate timeline where antitrust regulators successfully forced the dismantling of Facebook's social media empire, reshaping the digital landscape and the future of Big Tech regulation.
What If Facebook Was Never Created?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Mark Zuckerberg never launched Facebook in 2004, dramatically altering the development of social media, digital privacy norms, and information sharing in the 21st century.
What If Influencer Culture Never Developed?
Exploring the alternate timeline where social media evolved without the rise of digital influencers, fundamentally altering the landscape of marketing, entertainment, and online social dynamics in the 21st century.
What If Instagram Never Succeeded?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Instagram failed to gain traction, reshaping the landscape of social media, visual culture, and the influencer economy in the digital age.