&quot;together with their hundreds of millions of followers&quot;<p>For no particular reason I can determine, we&#x27;ve temporarily merged the cultural &#x2F; social automation technology for personal friendships with fanboy relationships with social status signalling.  Future systems are unlikely to be identical clones of past systems.<p>This seems usable for personal relationships.  Quite possibly automation for fanboy relationships might be a totally different service and technology.  Maybe in the future people won&#x27;t do geolocated at all.  Or maybe status signalling will go out of style in the larger culture.<p>Sometimes coincidences don&#x27;t matter.<p>The rest of your argument is the eternal wheel of IT which never stops rotating between centralization and distribution.  Much as we had mainframes in the past and have centralized social media today, the wheel will rotate thru yet another decentralized phase soon enough.  It never stops rolling.