The Dutch call these "Elephant Path" and the rest call these "Desire Path"

The Dutch call these "Elephant Path" and the rest call these "Desire Path", they usually signal a design failure to connect with human behaviour but occasionally it might be leading indicator of human failure.

Digital Paths

Facebook - Social networking

Medium -  Blogging/Publishing platform

Twitter - Microblogging

Substack - Paid subscription newsletter service

Reddit - Social news aggregation

Clubhouse - 21st century Athenian Agora

Instagram - Visual photo/video sharing platform

TikTok - Micro visual sharing platform

Snapchat - Disappearing Micro visual platform

Pintrest - Visual discovery platform

Youtube - Video sharing platform

Whatsapp - Social Messaging platform

Robinhood - I am tempted to tag it as social investing/gaming platform

Interestingly, majority of the platforms have tried to become universal social networking platform by adding competitor features, none have succeeded so far.

a16z declared a decade ago "Software is eating the world". These software platforms are rapidly learning observing you, If you are not learning from them, you will be left behind.

For now, Linkedin is my all encompassing elephant path due to time constraints, is it time to reconsider direction?

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