6 New Social Media You Need to Watch

March 9, 2015 By admin

It seems like new social media networks are popping up all over the internet.

After quite popular sites like Medium, Tsu and Ello or less known ones as Shots, This, Pheed, and Chirp, now it’s the time to introduce some new social projects I found online.

Here are 6 new social media you need to watch.

Table of Contents

1. Brabble

Brabble is plenty a social media.

You can interact by posting multimedia files, sharing them with friends (your followers), with “all the world” (public) or leaving your content private.

It’s possible to respond to other content with multimedia files like videos, links, audio, photos, text.

Content can then be shared on Facebook and Twitter.

The aim of the founders is to propose the platform as a single repository of any kind of file, generating particularly “rich” conversations, thanks to this communication channels variety.

Main points are, therefore, the ability to upload different media while communicating with friends and the selection of public to who address your publications (seems like Facebook features).

Pros: it is purely a “social” site. It aims only at fun.

Cons: it must achieve a very high number of users, before it breaks through. Also, there are no different functionalities compared to Facebook.

2. Heard

Imagine a social network where there is no one to follow, but it’s the technology that follows you, suggesting content in line with your interests and what you have visited recently.

Heard is an atypical social site, who depends on your interests and your past conduct.

Obviously, with the same logic, you can create content on your profile, which then will be offered to other users like yourself, who could appreciate what you have written.

Pros: I like the function to select and filter specific content, so as to reduce the background noise produced by the entire web. Furthermore, the model lends itself easily to sponsored content.

Cons: it’s missing the relational component with other people. Here the relationship is almost solely with the Heard algorithm.

3. Learnist

Consider a social similar to Medium, but oriented to education : that’s Learni.st, a platform in which to learn or teach anything along various categories.

It’s a bit different from Coursera or Udemy, because I see a more marked social component at Learnist.

The website structure is very simple: each user can establish himself, by producing quality content and gaining authority in certain areas.

Pros: each user earns popularity within the social platform with his own vertical blog. The creation of quality content seems always winning.

Cons: for self-sustaining, Learnist should probably have to follow the economic model of Udemy (training fees) or WordPress (CMS for content management). Therefore, nothing new.

4. Conspire

Conspire is the anti-LinkedIn.

A social media focused on the job, as it’s analyzes, in fact, your working connections of first instance and determines the strength of your relationships.

How?

By connecting to your Gmail account and observing your communication flows.

How well do you know your contacts?

Conspire, according to its report, will give you the chance to reach other contacts, by leveraging your existing relationships.

When I signed up, there were 36,800,903 users registered.

Pros: a way to overcome barriers in the world of work in order to get to know new people.

Cons: the analysis of your Gmail account is an important privacy barrier before the wide adoption of this social and professional network.

5. Spot

Do you want to transform your website into a social community?

This is the idea behind Spot.

With a simple code to insert into your web pages, you should be able to generate a kind of social activity, where users will be attracted (hopefully) to your content and engage around it.

It produces basically a bubble which appears in the corner left or right of your blog, that can be used by your visitors to interact with you or with other users.

Pros: super original, it adds a new way of dialogue and commenting to your website.

Cons: high resistance from bloggers to add more “codes” to their websites. Furthermore, is it just a kind of chat?

6. Bristlr

Last but not least, Bristlr.

Let’s assume that you have a nice beard and looking for company.

Well, just take a picture and register to Bristlr, a social network that connects “bearded” with women attracted by men with beards.

Apart from the irony and the courage of founders to create a social media like this, the motto is:

Connecting those with beards to those who want to stroke beards.

Just think of a niche and create a website just for its audience.

Here is the key to create something without doubt unique.

Pros: an extreme originality accompanied by a very specific niche of users is normally a good match.

Cons: beyond it’s funny, what will be left?

Conclusion

Many new social media sites (or different online projects) are born everyday on the internet.

Probably within few years, many websites will no longer exist, returning a 404 page.

The real deal is becoming really popular or finding an effective way of monetization of the traffic/audience.

Which one will be the next Facebook?

What do you think?

Please share your views in the comments below, thanks!

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Comments

Ryan Biddulph says

March 9, 2015 at 12:18 pm

Hi Erik,

Looks like some potential winners here. I like em all but can’t join any at the time, because I’m so busy keeping track of Triberr, and good old FB and twitter, and other networking sites. I will say that it’s so key to be on networks in the early days before they take off. Then you have some serious clout before things get hectic. I see it as putting your fishing pole in a few different bonds. When one bites, run with it. That’s kinda like what I did on Facebook and it’s also how I worked twitter too. Dip in, keep an eye on the pulse of things and leap forward with the winners when they take off. Sounds like a plan to me 😉

Thanks Erik!

Tweeting from Bali.

Ryan
Sylviane Nuccio says

March 9, 2015 at 1:48 pm

Hi Erik,

Wow, great info here, as I know none of the above social media sites you’ve mentioned here.

I will make a point to investigate the ones that appeal to me most right now. I think that my number one is Bristlr. Sounds interesting to connect with specific target.

Thanks for sharing.
Brian ( says

March 9, 2015 at 6:03 pm

Hi Erik,

Some of these sites look very interesting. Social media is becoming so common these days that it’s hard to keep a track of all of them. Joining more social media sites does mean investing more time.

Thanks again for sharing these sites. I would definitely check them out to see if some of them can be useful for Blog Engage in any way.
Rahul Choudhary says

March 10, 2015 at 9:24 am

Hello there Erik,

Amazing, extraordinary data here, as I know nothing from what was just mentioned online networking locales you’ve specified here.
Kuldeep says

March 10, 2015 at 2:26 pm

Hi Erik,
These social media sites are completely new to me!I’ll try them!

Thanks for sharing such useful stuff with us
Shalonda Gordon says

March 11, 2015 at 3:36 am

Hey Erik,

Great post.. I have not heard of any of these new social media platforms.. I really appreciate the way you broke each one down.. I literally laughed out loud as I read one and thought to myself.. “yeah but the con would be…” and POW.. you already listed it.. definitely made me feel comfortable.. smile. Thanks so much for sharing.. I believe I will look at Heard the others.. I will have to wait on.. I don’t give access to my contacts.. my contacts respect and trust me too much for me to do that.. I love this blog.. I shall return.. keep smiling
metz says

March 11, 2015 at 4:29 am

Interesting. All of these things were very foreign to me. The 6 new social media are interesting. They are useful in marketing our products and services, but it’s wise if we’ll observe first before employing it as a tool to reach our prospects. We can’t afford to waste our time sampling them all right?

The Pros and Cons are very helpful for us to determine its function.
Thanks for sharing these with all of us! We live in this digital age, no wonder these 6 new social media websites will continue to hold out, but only those amazing will prevail.
Nisha Pandey says

March 11, 2015 at 12:19 pm

Hi Erik,

You really have got quite a few new name out here.

While social media trends keep on changing and people are always trying out something new, we blogger also must share out contents in all the potential platforms.

Most of us do use the major platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc, while very few pay attention to their tiny cousins.

Thanks a lot for sharing this list. I for one shall surely try out all of these.

Have a wonderful day!
Siva says

March 11, 2015 at 8:12 pm

Erik, I’d have to say that your post about six new social media sites is simply superb, and ways you’d explained about pros n cons also cool. Coming to the point, it is still difficult to go for predictions, especially you’ve asked about which one can be the next Facebook. As far to me Facebook adverts will grow in popularity and no other can replace the place of it. But (sadly) I can say that some like Google+ will fade away in 2015.

new social media sites is trend changing and dont know which one helps Small business owners, where there are always looking for ways to reach their audiences, through social media sites. I feel like Pinterest & Instagram are 2 examples of that…And what is your thought on that ? Let me do some research on the list above, and give an assumption of which results good to alternative to present.

Thanks for beautiful post,
Siva
Hiidee says

March 12, 2015 at 8:22 am

Great and informative post here. Although have never heard anyone of them before but its now time I checked out what they can offer me.
Thanks for sharing
Siddaiah says

March 12, 2015 at 8:31 am

Hi Erik,

I never heard any of these social media networks till now, recently Mr Entine Muki written one article about new Social media platforms he suggested me Ello is the best to concentrate on, today you have given another 6 options, suggest me any one of them to concentrate.
Ikechi says

March 13, 2015 at 3:59 pm

Hi Erik

These Social Media platforms are new. I have not come across any of them. These is very informative and I guess this social media platforms are more mixed focus.

Thanks for sharing. Have a nice week.
Mi Muba says

March 14, 2015 at 3:56 pm

Hi Erik

This is really a unique list because very few people are aware of these six social media.

Competition has rise in blogosphere so much so that now it is wise to avail every opportunity to promote our post.

Also to build a strong and vibrant blog community it is good to bring most active members from each social media at your blog.

In this sense this list of six new social media will help to expand our outreach by widening our blog community.

Thanks a lot for sharing this very useful resource.
Aman Singh says

March 15, 2015 at 5:50 am

nice post really helpful
new social media
like it
thanks for it
Rahul Yadav says

March 21, 2015 at 5:51 pm

Great list Erik!! Glad I read it, thanks for sharing!..
Tonmoy says

March 21, 2015 at 6:17 pm

Hey Erik, Thanks a lot. Really, i don’t know about many sites you wrote. But, you made a good and big list of social media. It’s really helpful for us. Keep sharing 🙂

Cheers!
Ankit Chauhan says

May 29, 2015 at 9:30 am

Did you try Buddy List Social Network buddylist[dot]cf
- Ankit Chauhan says
  
  June 2, 2015 at 8:03 am
  
  Thanks Erik for your suggestion. I got this from one of my Facebook friend. I’ll keep myself away from these type of site in future.
ankush says

June 16, 2015 at 7:54 pm

Hello Erik, First time see these new 6 social media thanks for sharing with us.