
Why are social networks so… anti-social?
Here at Peerity, we realized something was missing when members of the team read an article about how quitting social media makes people happier.
Perhaps it was this one.
This got us to asking: “Why are social networks so… anti-social?”
Plenty of research out there shows that people who have more friends and better social connections are happier and live longer. Yet social media seems to make people stressed and unhappy. On social media we are “connected” yet disconnected. We are always visible but at the same time lost in the crowd. We have lots of “friends”, but few you can really trust.
There is a sort of meaninglessness to modern social media. It encourage the worst parts of us: To try and look good to people you don’t really know, who don’t really care about you, against standards that aren’t defined and are probably garbage anyway. It’s like the worst parts of 80s movies about High School only it never ends.
Peerity wants to take a new approach. We want people to have genuine connection and ideally to make that connection stretch into the real world and become real achievements.
This is why we say “Peerity isn’t a social network, it’s an activity network“.
Even if the activities take place entirely online, we want people to join together to achieve things. To make and build and share things.
We want help our users to find meaning and purpose.
How we do that will be an ongoing experiment. We’re starting with rewarding our users instead of exploiting them. In normal social media, YOU are the product. The site is meant to addict you in order to extort data, sell that data to others, and then keep you coming back.
In other words: normal social networks are parasites.
At Peerity we want to do the opposite approach: partnership instead of parasitism. When you do something that makes the network more valuable, you get rewarded. This is why we have the Peerity token. With it, you can buy extra features on the site or trade the token on exchanges and get cash if that’s what you need. Peerity is here to work with you, and we’ll be rolling out more and more features in the coming months to help you achieve your dreams by connecting with others, building things, and sharing things, in a way that helps us all.
Welcome to Peerity. Let’s figure out how to make social media not suck.
