Facebook & Google+ Alternative Emerges: OnlyMeWorld
Last week, 29-year-old K Dasaratha Rao, a website developer and software consultant from Bangalore, saw several new features being added to the social networking site Facebook (FB).
“Honestly, I didn’t take to the changes immediately.
But as I spent time on the site and saw what Facebook had done, I realised that it had actually simplified the number of clicks I would make on the home page.”
But Rao’s enthusiasm seems to be an exception when you hear avid Facebook users like New Delhi-based beauty and wellness consultant Ritika Sharma, 27. “What was wrong with the old Facebook that it is now being constantly redesigned. The new features make my FB page too complicated,” she says.
Her colleague, Bhawna Misao, a receptionist, too had similar views. “Since online Facebook has changed so much, I have started using the Facebook app on my BlackBerry,
which is still a reflection of the old interface.”
New features on FB have also failed to impress 20-year-old Miranda House student, Rachna Punjabi who sys: “Recent features like Facebook’s real-time “ticker” stream that alerts me about what my friends read, watch and listen to or tag, is dizzying real time and way too much social sharing.” This also prompted Punjabi to tweak her FB settings that allowed limited sharing of what she does on the social networking portal.
With nearly 36 million users from India (according to September statistics from Socialbakers), Facebook was accessed by more than 45 per cent of India’s internet users. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook, should be closely listening to Indian users because the site witnessed a heady growth of about 27 per cent in the last three months, adding over
This is a big change, and it’s been a long road to get here — as the site’s home page, News Feed has seen plenty of iterations over the years, particularly around the way real-time content is displayed.
The purpose of Ticker is pretty straightforward: it shows you a stream of your friends’ most recent activity on Facebook, as it happens. This means that every time one of your friend ‘Likes’ a piece of content, posts a photo, or comments on a status update, you’ll immediately get a notification in your Ticker. And if you mouse-over one of the updates, Facebook will show a pop-over with relevant information (for example, if a friend checked into a venue, you’ll see a Bing map).
OnlyMeWorld offers a social networking platform similar in function to Facebook, Google+, Linkedin, and Twitter, yet differs in its approach to Privacy Rights, Anonymity, and Protection from Cyber Crime. At OnlyMeWorld, people are able to participate with absolute privacy and anonymity. OnlyMeWorld requires no real names or email addresses. It uses no web tracking, no facial recognition software, and no data mining.
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