I'm increasingly concerned that people are sharing entertaining stories and delivering free advice on Clubhouse. How are talking heads on cable TV news expected to complete with this phenomenon? And don't get me started about the adverse impact of Clubhouse on bots and trolls.
Why would an interesting and knowledgeable person want to have a fun non-adversarial conversation with similar people in a public setting that thousands of people may find informative and entertaining?
Aren't divisive and adversarial interviews good enough for these people?
Aren't divisive and adversarial interviews good enough for these people?
The positive public conversations happening on Clubhouse can easily spread to other platforms. Demagogues and other peddlers of divisive twaddle will unfairly be forced to compete for attention. I'm concerned that cable news ratings in may fall significantly in key demographics.
4/ The obvious danger is that other startups and legacy networks like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat have the ability to create their own Clubhouse style services and build new business models to support the service. These services might spread to smaller communities.
5/ A nightmare scenario is open source-based Clubhouse style networks proliferating and requiring people to use real names. Variants of these networks might increase accountability and enable people to fill voids created by the disappearance of local sources of information! 🙀
6/ If the risks to clickbait-based web sites and purveyors of chum boxes I raised cause you to lose sleep tonight, I apologize. But I fear media concentration might be reduced and more diverse, intelligent and less sociopathic and narcissistic voices will increasingly be heard.
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