Ello I Love You Won't You Tell Me Your Name (On This New No-Ad, No Real Name-Needed Social Network)

I'm @hamlet on Ello, a new no-ad social network in early Beta. (Thanks for the invite, @apolymorph!) It's getting a bit of buzz among some friends and colleagues as a better alternative to Facebook. (Then again, a lot of them are talking about Ello on Facebook.)

"Disaffected Facebook users are abandoning ship," @wizardgynoid asserts to me, "led by the LGBT crowd, in particular the Drag Queens who Facebook gave the ultimatum to this week. Second Life avatars have the same issues with the Drag Queens and so they are finding Ello an attractive, nonjudgmental alternative." Maybe so with drag queens, but seeing that Second Life's official Facebook page has about as many fans as Second Life itself has active users, Ello has with them a long road to go.

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[Ezra]

I like their planned business model of selling the permanent activation of special features for small fees.

[Pussycat Catnap]

I've been hearing that people have been abandoning Facespam since 2009 or so. Maybe 2008. Before I even got back into SL.

I've been hearing it.

But I haven't seen it.

I wish it would happen... but its like a crack addiction. Everyone knows you gotta get off the stuff, and that its bad... and that the junkies are running amok and making a mess of things... but nothing happens.

[Phantom Republic]

Darn ... referral only ... anyone want to hit a brother up? Lol

[Cube Republic]

I left facebook Pussycat. I now have loads of free time to do other better things. It made me wonder, if people are looking for the perfect moment to share then they're missing the present moment. We've had quests round for dinner and they sit on their smart phones checking their status. When I left I wanted to make sure I wouldn't go back, so I deleted my contacts one by one. Out of 254 contacts I sent 4 my email address. It's mainly for insecure narcissists and it's been proven that it makes people miserable.

[Cube Republic]

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[Pathfinder]

Can someone hook me up with an invite? ;)
[email protected]

[Wizard Gynoid]

We'll see. Once you get a fair number of friends in your Ello network you start to see how it works. All snarkiness aside, remember it's Beta and a month ago there were only 90 users.