Social media predictions for 2021

Paying for social will become the norm

There will be more censorship (ie: Twitter) and less censorship (ie: Parler)

We will see one breakout crypto community. The only thing hotter than crypto right now might be community — and community and crypto go hand-in-hand. Tokens lend themselves very well to communities with a focus on incentives (achievements, hitting goals, rewarding good behavior etc).

Everything stretched to the extremes; either extremely censored (i.e: Twitter) or non-censored (i.e: Parler). Extremely free (i.e. very obviously and unapologetically subsidized by ads, like FB) or extremely paid (i.e: OnlyFans). Extremely asynchronous or extremely synchronous. Extremely active or extremely passive. Extremely visual or extremely au... See more

The social internet will look a lot like the shopping mall of the 1990s. Is the shopping mall a social hangout or a place to transact? It's both. The social internet will make it natural to pay and play in the same place.

Community and commerce will converge