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# Meet the new social media hierarchy, same as the old one
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2014/02/meet_the_new_social_media_hierarchy_same/
- Published: 2014-02-28T22:54:07.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T16:12:17.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: hierarchies, network effect, Social Media

Why [social media feels so much less exciting](https://medium.com/meta/f774460d5a7d?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) when it’s established:

> Open systems start with no hierarchy, so they look like meritocracies at first, but network effects mean newcomers create a hierarchy, often without even meaning to. *We will never return to a Twitter where there’s little difference between newcomers and the old guard*.

The form of the piece is an good old fashioned “it’s not fair” – but it captures why the excitement and potential many find in the early days of a new tool often fails to come to fruition, as new hierarchies start to establish themselves.