I will probably get downvoted for this, but I still don't get App.net. Can someone explain to me how I would actually convince all my friends to jump ship from other social networks and pay money to do effectively the same thing?
You will find it hard, rather impossible, to convince young adults, college students, and parents to pay for a service that's already provided for free--especially when the paid service is a dead-end.
I don't like Facebook, but I have an account to talk with friends and shoot the shit with people I don't want to have a personal relationship with. If all those friends were not there (as is the case with App.Net), what would I do? Play with all the cool features all day? Tell people how cool it is to "own" my content?
If people do not come, I will never come. See the catch-22?
App.Net should cut it now. AWESOME idea, but will not happen.
