# A Strong Social Media System Survives Its Platform by Bryant McGill > “The strongest social media system can survive both growth and disappearance. It governs the present channel, preserves the source, earns attention without counterfeiting it, and leaves the audience able to find the work after the platform, trend, and visible metric have passed.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Social Media Success Through Trust, Platform Control, and Organic Reach - Livestream (Sep 2015)* ## Sources and Context - **Source:** [[livestreams/Social Media Success Through Trust, Platform Control, and Organic Reach - Livestream|Social Media Success Through Trust, Platform Control, and Organic Reach - Livestream]] — exact quotation from the developed livestream document. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/A Systems-Diagnostic Framework for Planetary-Scale Computation|A Systems-Diagnostic Framework for Planetary-Scale Computation]] - **Article:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] - **Livestream:** [[livestreams/Social Media Success Through Trust, Platform Control, and Organic Reach - Livestream|Social Media Success Through Trust, Platform Control, and Organic Reach - Livestream]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Platform Dependency|Platform Dependency]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The strongest social media system can survive both growth and disappearance. It governs the present channel, preserves the source, earns attention without counterfeiting it, and leaves the audience able to find the work after the platform, trend, and visible metric have passed.” — Bryant McGill, Social Media Success Through Trust, Platform Control, and Organic Reach - Livestream (Sep 2015) https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-bryant-mcgill-social-system-survives-platform ```