Wei: Social Graph Design Is an Irreversible Decision for Startups
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Tech strategist Eugene Wei advises social app founders on the permanence of initial social graph decisions due to user reluctance to unfollow.
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“And the problem for social startups is that if you have people build a very particular social graph, and you build your feed off of it, and you build notifications off of that graph, most people tend to not want to unfollow people down the road, so this is kind of an irreversible decision, so it needs to be thought about more carefully.”
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