Social Media used to be a static form of sharing information between one another, and transmitting information to other people. It did not stay static once the World Wide Web (www) became available to us all. Media used to be about television, newspapers, magazines, radio… now it has expanded to many more platforms part of our daily lives on internet. Nowadays, social media permits us to share information to a global level, in addition to the online connections of the sharer, which can then can become viral.

Viral Sensation

What is Social Networking? Social Networking is all about engagement — creating relationships, communicating with your audience and building your following.

How does social networks connect with Blockchain? Or how is Blockchain impacting social media?

With the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal, do we wish to continue using this social platform? Is it time to finally use Blockchain Technology for increased trust between the platforms and its users? For me at least it is. However, the online monopole Facebook has over our lives and various businesses does not permit us for a quick change.

Facebook now says that 87 million users had their data mishandled, which potentially subjected them to biased and manipulative advertisements.

Social Networks Decentralised Applications

The question is with this increase of ‘transparency’ and no ‘middleman’, will we see a decrease in fake news broadcasting? Can decentralised applications help against this issue? Here are a few examples of DApps with a focus over information sharing such as microblogging, community and professional governance with Proof-of-Skill, content authenticity and validation.

Skyllz: is a distributed and open-source skill validation protocol that enables users to validate and empower skills acquisition, allocation, contextualization and boosting freely within and across Skills Touchpoints Applications (STapps) such as e-learning platforms, networking platforms, portfolio platforms, offline education platforms or any other platform that want to benefit from and add value to the Skyllz ecosystem (Details from: https://skyllz.org/) Status: Prototype.

PEEPETH

Peepeth: is a decentralized alternative to Twitter. It’s unstoppable and uncensorable because it runs on the Ethereum blockchain. No company or government controls the data on Peepeth. (Details from https://peepeth.com/welcome) Status: Live.

INDORSE

Indorse: uses different methods to validate skills in a simple and objective way, for example: Decentralized consensus, where examples of skill are judged anonymously by random other users. Or A.I. based systems like chat bots for automated real-time validation.(Details from https://indorse.io/) Status: Live.

SocialX

SocialX: is a community-driven social media platform allowing users to publish photo and video content. It has many similarities to established social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, but there is one major difference: SocialX is a decentralised blockchain platform where everyone can earn cryptocurrency SOCX token rewards. The unique SocialX ecosystem brings the social media experience to a new paradigm where people get rewarded for posting content. (Details from: https://socialx.network/) Status: WIP.

ONG SOCIAL

ONG Social: is a blockchain based social dashboard that provides ease of control for both central & decentralized social media networks, and that also supports community building and social interaction with cryptocurrency rewards (Details from: https://ong.social/) Status: Live.

RAWLINGS

Rawlings: is building a network of the most trusted recommendations for online content, starting with news and media. As an aggregator of opinions and views from the only network of users who are incentivized to focus on quality interactions, the Rawlings Integrity Network creates a transparent and private platform for open discussion. The Raw Score represents the positive reviews and interactions on a piece of content, and will be used by millions of readers and viewers to help decide the validity of the content (Details from: https://rawlings.io/) Status: WIP.

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