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.
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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Ryan Biddulph says
March 9, 2015 at 12:18 pmHi 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
Erik Emanuelli says
March 10, 2015 at 3:04 pmTriberr rocks, Ryan.
It’s deifnitely worth the time invested over there.
Twitter is my favorite one, having more than 26k followers.
I get awesome feedback.
Thanks for sharing your views,
have a great rest of this week in Bali, mate. 🙂
Sylviane Nuccio says
March 9, 2015 at 1:48 pmHi 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.
Erik Emanuelli says
March 10, 2015 at 3:05 pmHi Sylviane,
have you already tested Bristlr?
I’d love to hear your feedback.
Also, I think it’s worth a try any of these new social media networks.
Thanks for visiting and commenting,
have a great week!
Brian ( says
March 9, 2015 at 6:03 pmHi 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.
Erik Emanuelli says
March 10, 2015 at 3:06 pmHi Brian,
have you tried any of the social media mentioned?
Hope it helps with promoting Blog Engage.
Thanks for visiting and commenting,
have a great week!
Rahul Choudhary says
March 10, 2015 at 9:24 amHello there Erik,
Amazing, extraordinary data here, as I know nothing from what was just mentioned online networking locales you’ve specified here.
Erik Emanuelli says
March 10, 2015 at 3:06 pmHi Rahul,
hope these new resources are going to help you improve your connections.
Thanks for visiting and commenting,
have a great day!
Kuldeep says
March 10, 2015 at 2:26 pmHi Erik,
These social media sites are completely new to me!I’ll try them!
Thanks for sharing such useful stuff with us
Erik Emanuelli says
March 10, 2015 at 3:07 pmHi Kuldeep,
I hope these new social media networks are going to help you improve your audience.
Thanks for visiting and commenting,
have a great day!
Shalonda Gordon says
March 11, 2015 at 3:36 amHey 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
Erik Emanuelli says
March 11, 2015 at 10:11 amHello Shalonda,
great to hear you positive feedback!
It seems we had the same thoughts on that one.
Thank you so much for the kind words,
hope to talk to you soon! 🙂
metz says
March 11, 2015 at 4:29 amInteresting. 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.
Erik Emanuelli says
March 11, 2015 at 10:10 amHi Metz,
glad to hear you liked the post.
Sometimes it’s good to test new social networks, as they could match your interests or niche.
May be you should give them a try!
Thanks for taking the time to read and comment,
have a great rest of this week.
Nisha Pandey says
March 11, 2015 at 12:19 pmHi 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!
Erik Emanuelli says
March 11, 2015 at 1:54 pmHi Nisha,
it’s good to have some alternatives to the big ones like Twitter, Facebook or Google+, right? 😉
Thanks for visiting,
wishing you a great rest of this week.
Siva says
March 11, 2015 at 8:12 pmErik, 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
Erik Emanuelli says
March 12, 2015 at 9:18 amHi Siva,
only time will tell if some of the social media mentioned in this post will become the new “Facebook”.
About Google+, I don’t think it will disappear, as you commented.
Big G is too strong to let him die, and, after all, is strongly connected with search engines rankings.
Appreciate you sharing your views.
Thanks for visiting and commenting!
Saurabh tiwari says
March 11, 2015 at 11:10 pmHi Erik Emanuelli
Amazing Info Here! Thanks for Sharing
Erik Emanuelli says
March 12, 2015 at 9:13 amGlad you liked the post, Saurabh,
thanks for shaing your views.
Hiidee says
March 12, 2015 at 8:22 amGreat 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
Erik Emanuelli says
March 12, 2015 at 9:14 amHi Hildee,
it’s good to have some alternatives to big social networks like Facebook or Twitter, right?
Thanks for visiting and commenting!
Siddaiah says
March 12, 2015 at 8:31 amHi 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.
Erik Emanuelli says
March 12, 2015 at 9:16 amHi Siddaiah,
I mentioned Ello, Tsu and a few other ones in my first post of “new social media”.
You can read it here:
http://nopassiveincome.com/new-social-networks/
Appreciate you sharing your views.
Thanks for visiting and commenting!
Ikechi says
March 13, 2015 at 3:59 pmHi 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.
Erik Emanuelli says
March 13, 2015 at 4:36 pmHi Ikechi,
thanks for the feedback.
Do you think you are going to try some of these?
Mi Muba says
March 14, 2015 at 3:56 pmHi 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.
Erik Emanuelli says
March 15, 2015 at 5:41 pmHello Mi Muba,
good to see you here.
Glad to hear your positive feedback,
sometimes it’s useful to have some alternatives to big social networks like Facebook or Twitter, right?
Thanks for visiting and sharing your views,
have a great sunday!
Aman Singh says
March 15, 2015 at 5:50 amnice post really helpful
new social media
like it
thanks for it
Erik Emanuelli says
March 15, 2015 at 5:27 pmHi Aman,
thanks for visiting and commenting.
Rahul Yadav says
March 21, 2015 at 5:51 pmGreat list Erik!! Glad I read it, thanks for sharing!..
Erik Emanuelli says
March 22, 2015 at 11:03 amHi Rahul,
glad you liked the post.
Have a great sunday!
Tonmoy says
March 21, 2015 at 6:17 pmHey 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!
Erik Emanuelli says
March 22, 2015 at 11:04 amHi Tonmoy,
good to hear you enjoyed this reading.
Good to have some social media alternatives, right?
Have a great sunday!
Ankit Chauhan says
May 29, 2015 at 9:30 amDid you try Buddy List Social Network buddylist[dot]cf
Erik Emanuelli says
May 29, 2015 at 9:50 amIt looks really a spam site, Ankit.
Ankit Chauhan says
June 2, 2015 at 8:03 amThanks 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 pmHello Erik, First time see these new 6 social media thanks for sharing with us.
Erik Emanuelli says
June 17, 2015 at 9:36 amGlad you learned something new from this post, Ankush.
Keep following.