Not only don't you need blockchains you can phrase it more strongly, it renders the entire thing impossible. A social network needs a messaging protocol, data ownership should be private and state local or else it doesn't even scale.
Pushing the entire history of a what is p2p, private communication through a global state machine is entirely antithetical to the use case. Imagine every time you talk to your neighbor you inform the entire country first, there's no point.
Not only don't you need blockchains you can phrase it more strongly, it renders the entire thing impossible. A social network needs a messaging protocol, data ownership should be private and state local or else it doesn't even scale.
Pushing the entire history of a what is p2p, private communication through a global state machine is entirely antithetical to the use case. Imagine every time you talk to your neighbor you inform the entire country first, there's no point.