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User agreements for Silicon Valley have been largely invalidated. The data belongs to the user, their license allows their system to manage the content within their platform and excerpts to third parties may infringe on the platform users economic rights. The parts of the agreement that remain valid provide very little rights for the platform owners. The system is going to mostly automated, and they have changed to a subscription model, and are considering offering management fees to help with a user profile.
Many people already offer social media management services and the platforms have been missing out on these fees for years due to offering free services.
Copyright law has been updated as of 2016, and globally there is not considered to be an educational use license in copyright law. Most schools or training centers charge for tuition so they have money to pay for content they use in their curriculum. Schools that do not charge for tuition but still have a payroll budget have been suggested to hire authors, child development specialists, and content creators to write their own school curriculum.
The costs of books have gone done, the literacy rate has increased, and a lot of content on the internet is not meant to be modified or distributed by other parties. Thats what the copy rights are for, by default, they allow viewing only.
Hearts, Likes and Thumbs up or down are considered a method of voting. A person does not have to go on a platform forever to express their preferences. They can be used on obvious edge cases or for those that are borderline neutral. Its recommended to this for about a week or two the first time, and then a few days here and there every few years. Favorite artists might get an additional like every now and then. That's more or less how it works.
Comments are unlikely to be read on popular profiles. People leave them anyways to exchange neurons. This is because it is impossible to reply to thousands of comments per day or per week and even though a profile may seem humongous based on the number of followers, they may not be able to actually reply to more than 1,000 comments per month. A few from the top, a few from the middle, some from the bottom, and some based on post length. People use these to run surveys or competitions and use computer filtering to view the results.
A lot of people have turned comments off on their blogs and video profiles. The suggestion is to write or stream about the same topic and let the computer match based on the content algorithms.
Reposts, Embeds, and Excerpts are mostly for people to use on their own profile or on their own websites. There is not a way to turn this on or off per profile on all platforms. The preferred way to reference is to link to their post, some people don't like to do this because of "link juice rules", agreements are popular to figure this out. Acceptable content to excerpt this way is news posts from one or two providers you like, government content, and school content from your school only. Privacy rules may allow excerpting similar content from a partner school.
The way to excerpt somebody elses content this way is to post their content on the top of the webpage and write how it affects you, why you relate to it, how it relates to popular culture or current events. Writing about how it relates to something similar you're doing is iffy. Its better to write your own content and let the internet systems match and categorize instead. If you end up on the same internet feeds, then it might be appropriate to explain similarities or differences. More often, comparisons are avoided, let the audience make their own decision.
This is mostly private groups recently. Its extremely rude to take someone elses content and post it somebody else. Friends within a group will have agreements with each other and may post each others content with agreement. Our friend posted this and I didn't want to rewrite or repeat it. What does everybody think?
People will also embed their facebook videos on their websites. These are not meant to embed elsewhere or to download and reupload to another platform for "visibility". They know what they are doing with their website and may have a set audience size they can work with. Its always recommended to ask first if you want to help.
Twitter (X)
The majority of tweets are randomized and everything else is behind a login. If a profile is set to public, someone can view a randomized list of their most recent posts. To view a timeline of their posts, a person has to create an account and login. This can be used to view only and bookmark. Its not necessary to like or comment if not needed. The platform will not make accusations of "lurking" if viewing and bookmarking. They also have DM/PM which is Direct Message, Private Message and a lot of users do respond to their messages. Although, for some users the response may take a few months. Some users have seen a message a year or two later and still responded anyways. It is less likely to happen more recently. Try 2-3 times every few months. An introduction, a followup, and a thank you for your content<./p>
The paid service is mostly used for business accounts doing marketing. It gives them more features for viewing their content reach. There are rumors that it should be called Platform X or just X messaging. It's officially called X.
This is for short videos and photography and is viewed as semi-professional. It is owned and managed by facebook. Most of the same rules that apply on facebook will apply to instagram. They no longer allow scrolling through a whole profile without logging in. Its recommended not to embed any photos or videos and to not even link directly to a specific video or photo. Just like to the profile. There is some flexibility.
Most users want to display their more recent content and leave older content on there in case somebody is bored and went into infinite scroll mode.
Overall it is viewed as professional, the users may have a matching facebook username or may not. Asking is a big theme on social media.
What's app is also a facebook app, many facebook users are network centric.
YouTube
This is currently a popular network based on video profiles. Some video profiles offer production grade videos, others focus on shorts and few 30-40 minute videos or even 10-15 minutes still. They also have a live streaming feature that is useful with live comments and an assistant, photos and posts. Each profile is configured differently based on what works best for them.
The videos can be replaced at anytime, for example if something needs to be edited out or something was omitted. While most people will reupload something similar, no one is officially monitoring the platform, the video replacement is mostly based on user rules.
Some people will replace thumbnails from time to time, most people replace the video. I think the platform allows the video to be switched back and forth between different versions. If the video, thumbnail, and title are being replaced, its recommended to just upload a new video for platform consistency.
California focuses a lot on education and socialization and that is where most social media companies are currently located. While there is rumors to relocate some of California's tech assets somewhere else. That is an ongoing and long term conversation. For now they are there, and useful for those purposes. A lot of the network infrastructure is segregated geographically and the State government is aware of privacy requirements in running an international platform.
Watch the content and get an idea of what's going on with different networks. Create an account and try to participate. If things didn't go well, ask questions. If things still didn't go well, try a different platform.