22nd November 2010
Thoughts on Path
Late last week a new “personal network” platform/app launched, Path. It took a few days for the app to be available outside of the US, but I finally got my hands on it and found a major flaw in it:
No one I know is on it or would ever use it.
Most of my friends and family are already settled on Facebook (ugh), Twitter, IM or Skype, and only a handful of them own a smartphone. So creating yet another social platform and expecting everyone to adopt it is not a simple task, especially if it relies on the people you know owning an iPhone.
I really like the idea of Path, and I hope they become the “Facebook killer” (due to my hate for Facebook), but at the moment I don’t think I’ll be using it, especially when my People count is at 0.
