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Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right

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Re: Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right

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Post by thesash »

This makes a lot of sense to me. Back in college, Facebook was a place for communication with friends. Wall posts back and forth had an intimate feel, and no one worried about privacy when it was a closed network.

Somewhere along the way to to a professional career however, I cleaned up my profile, switched most of my updates to public, and shifted towards news sharing and commentary. Twitter and Google+ serve the same purpose for me, and Path feels restrictive since I don't really want to mix family, high school friends, college friends, work friends. This looks like it definitely has the potential to fill that void for private group communication.

Re: Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right

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Post by gregoire »

This is a real disappointment for me. While in development, Everyme was presented as a smart address book that would centralize the contacts from all your social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn...), as explained in this article: http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/andreessen-horowitz-crunchf....

It sounded like a great idea to me to centralize all these contacts in one single place and to be able to sync them with your iPhone's address book.

But it seems that they moved away from this idea to become a Path / Google+ hybrid.

Re: Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right

#13

Post by AznHisoka »

pclark wrote: post #6

I've been beta testing Everyme for a few months, and I am a huge fan of the founders too ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3539676 ) Everyme makes perfect sense - I regularly encounter "status updates" (be they links, updates, or photos) that I want to share to a subset of my friends or family. Everyone does. The Techcrunch article totally under sells the huge thing that Everyme does that no one else does: > Ever…

Hmm.. it wouldn't be useful to me since I don't an address book in my phone?

Re: Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right

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Post by frabcus »

joeguilmette wrote: post #9
motti_s wrote: post #5

"Everyme uses your phone’s address book for sharing, and if people don’t have Everyme accounts, they can still see and post content through email and text messages." This is a brilliant way to overcome the chicken-and-egg problem, which is probably the biggest problem a new social network is facing. I don't want to share my kids' pictures with everyone on Facebook. And no, my mom is not going to join Google+ (nor sho…

Facebook supports granular privacy for all posts via friend lists, and will even suggest friends to add to lists. Want to share pics with just your family? Don't want to turn down a friend request from a coworker, but don't want them to see anything (Restricted list)? Facebook has these features. These social networks are going nowhere.

The lists on Facebook aren't shared. They're just my lists, nobody else can see who they're shared with. Socially this makes them utterly useless, it doesn't form communities. (Facebook groups does this, but it isn't central to the experience, like it is apparently in everyme)

Facebook also requires that everyone you share with has a Facebook account. When I have a party, I have to go and email everyone by hand who isn't on Facebook. You can put their emails into Facebook, but I assume that will make the recipient sign up, so I don't do it.

Both these improvements in Everyme make a lot of sense to me. If only it a) had DuckDuckGo like privacy, b) was truly distributed, c) wasn't for one proprietary OS only.

Ah well.

Re: Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right

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Post by mikepmalai »

I like that I can post content through email and text messages. That said, do we really need a single app that manages multiple 'circles'?

When I look at my phone, my apps are my 'circles'.

For close friends and family, I have text/email/Path. For my significant other, I have Pair. For college/social friends, I have Foursquare/Instagram. For mass distribution, I have Facebook/Twitter. Etc.

With more and more apps offering Twitter/Facebook login, I can quickly pick and choose who I want to share an app with and form a 'circle' around that app.

Re: Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right

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Post by freshlog »

shootthemoon wrote: post #3

Do we really need another social network site? Yes, we do! I am still waiting for a winner that allows me to share private details such as kid photos and contact information with select family members close friends. I want this data to be unavailable to anyone outside of my circle, including advertisers. Are there options available now that do this? Yes again, but I need a solution that I can get Grandma on board jus…

In my opinion, to be truly confident that your data will be forever exclusive to yourself and people you choose is to pay for the service, to keep it running in the long run.

Otherwise, how is the service going to survive? They have to monetize somehow down the road to pay the bills.

See if you agree with what the creator of Pinboard says: http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/

I personally run a site called Handpick that helps people curate links and inform in a considerate manner:

http://handpick.me

I have paying subscribers who help me keep the lights on and do not have pressure to monetize my users' data in any way.

The question is: do you care enough how your data is handled to pay for the service?

Re: Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right

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Post by epikur »

motti_s wrote: post #5

"Everyme uses your phone’s address book for sharing, and if people don’t have Everyme accounts, they can still see and post content through email and text messages." This is a brilliant way to overcome the chicken-and-egg problem, which is probably the biggest problem a new social network is facing. I don't want to share my kids' pictures with everyone on Facebook. And no, my mom is not going to join Google+ (nor sho…

To be fair, you can add email-only people to G+ as well.

Re: Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right

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Post by fieldforceapp »

yangez wrote: post #2

>The app doesn’t allow users to share anything from Everyme to Facebook, Twitter, or other social networks — Cameron says that’s so you know that what’s shared in a Circle stays in the Circle. These guys have it right. It's about time a social network started focusing on the quality of communication rather than the quantity of connections.

Agree with the focus on quality of communication, but is the issue here self-inflicted? Is Everyme trying to solve a problem created because too many of us "friended" their co-workers?

Re: Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right

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Post by luser001 »

You can do this using Facebook's Lists. Can you not?

People seem to be using it. I'm seeing more and more posts from my friends shared with "custom" lists. I myself use that feature (esp. the built-in "Close Friends" list) often.

That doesn't mean this is a bad idea from the investment point of view.

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