title: New social networking?
date: 2018/02/23 00:47:51
slug: new-social-networking
status: published
link: https://jj.isgeek.net/2018/02/new-social-networking/
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I'm seeing a lot of kids signing up for [Vero](https://www.vero.co/) . I just read about it and I do commend some of its distinctive features.

* **No ads?** Sure! Although it seems that will be a paid service in the future. I think it's acceptable, when micro payments are much easier and common, paying a few bucks a year will seem natural for newer internet users. Current internet userbase wants everything for free which is big part of the problems we see today with websites. 
* **No algorithms**, not bad! Since they don't need to data mine me. They don't have incentives to tweak what I see. Maybe due data overflow I could somehow filter things out. 
* **Fixed privacy controls**. I agree that Google plus circles didn't work, mainly because people never ended making circles or didn't know where to start. I endorse the idea of the fixed 4 levels. If like to see where it goes. 